Stepping up: Becoming a high-potential CEO candidate
The road to becoming CEO is a difficult ascent for even the most seasoned leaders. Four keys to making the journey a success.
^ADJ: Key takeaway(s): Move to the Balcony (but) ...
Don’t miss a step on the dance floor—deliver on your day job. Climb onto a higher balcony to hone your view of the future, the company, and the company’s stakeholders. Be bold, whether on the balcony or the dance floor.
To benefit from AI, your organization’s learning loops must evolve
Ideas are cheap. AI is posed to make outputs just as cheap. But without the higher-level feedback loops, your organization’s decision-making will remain a bottleneck to creating value.
^ADJ: Key takeaways for me:
- Is this the right problem to solve - good reminder about ROI and the value of time (you can be very efficient and effective at doing the wrong thing).
- Importance of Experimentation
- The importance of guiding metrics
Improve Onboarding in Teams Through the Magic of Storytelling
An overview of some tips that may help you enhance the onboarding process and increase its efficiency
^ADJ: I think this has merit: To effectively onboard new employees to a system, it’s best to explain it through a story.
Boost Your Emotional Intelligence with These 3 Questions
Professionals sometimes founder as they try to improve their emotional intelligence, because they either don’t know where to focus their efforts or they haven’t understood how to improve these skills on a practical level. If you’re looking to develop particular EI strengths, it helps to consider areas for improvement others have identified along with the goals you want to achieve — and then to actively build habits in those areas rather than simply relying on understanding them conceptually. Three questions can help you on your way: (1) What are the differences between how you see yourself and how others see you? (2) What matters to you? (3) What changes will you make to achieve your goals?
Poor sleep linked to years of poor cardiovascular health
^ADJ: Good reminder about the magical powers and benefits of good sleep