Tactical Focus: How to Eat Glass & Lock in
People are far more capable than they imagine.
Some will exceed their wildest expectations, while others hold all the potential in the world and never seem to get far off the blocks.
^ADJ: This resonates with me: "What often makes the journey hard is that the target of your focus and how you wield it, changes and expands in role as your company does. As you scale and grow, it will require different things for you to keep yourself, your team, and your company on track."
Six Steps to Communicating Strategic Priorities Effectively
Clear, concise strategic priorities backed by metrics have value in communicating with stakeholders. To drive execution, leaders often translate strategy into a handful of strategic priorities designed to increase alignment throughout the organization.
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
What do Honeywell, IBM, and Pfizer have in common? Employees with strong professional networks. A study of 2 billion employee relationships on LinkedIn probes the power of such connections—and potential benefits for companies.
^ADJ: Key point: The authors emphasize that their study is more about the value of forming tangible real-world connections than it is a clarion call for employees to flock to professional online network sites.
The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy
Summary: The pandemic has taken a significant toll on the well-being and energy of so many. Positively energizing leaders are more crucial than ever. Positive relational energy —the energy exchanged between people that helps uplift, enthuse, and renew them — however, is not the superficial demonstration of false positivity, like trying to think happy thoughts or turning a blind eye to the very real stresses and pressures overloaded employees are experiencing. Rather, it is the active demonstration of values. Numerous studies show that positive energizers produce substantially higher levels of engagement, lower turnover, and enhanced feelings of well-being among employees. In organizations, superior shareholder returns occur, and in some studies, outcomes exceeded industry averages in profitability and productivity by a factor of four or more. Here’s what leaders need to know about positive relational energy, which the authors have found to be the most underutilized yet powerful predictor of leadership and organizational success.
14 Attributes of Greatness
In the mid-1980s, David Hemery set out to answer a burning question: “What makes a winner?”
^ADJ: Interesting that late specialisation is on the list.
The Feynman Learning Technique
The Feynman Technique is the best way to supercharge your learning. And it works no matter the subject. Devised by Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman, it leverages the power of teaching for better learning.
^ADJ: Like this: "Too often, we want to seem smart rather than learn. We nod along even when we don’t understand what someone is talking about. This is a missed opportunity for learning. If you’re having a conversation with someone and they start using jargon that you don’t understand, ask them to explain it to you like you’re twelve. Not only will you supercharge your own learning, but you’ll also supercharge theirs."