10 Signs Your Company Is Resistant to Change
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. The first step is to identify the real problem you need to solve. Often that’s not clear to everyone – because people have developed a number of effective ways to tolerate the problem instead of fix it.
^ADJ: The list a good one, I am willing to bet we have all come across the reasons for change being too hard, too difficult and the one I love most "we have already tried that - highly recommend the read of Move Fast and Fix Things**.
Effective Strategies for Building and Boosting Psychological Safety
In recent years, the modern workplace has recognised the intrinsic value of psychological safety. This has redefined not only how teams collaborate and innovate but also how leaders foster an environment of inclusion and innovation.
^ADJ: Key takeout "First, leaders must foster emotional intelligence and integrate self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management to facilitate candid yet safe discussions. Second, it is important to hire and develop proactive employees who exhibit personal initiative and are willing to challenge ideas."
Building Consensus Around Difficult Strategic Decisions
Making future-focused decisions in an uncertain world presents fundamental challenges for leaders. When we’re talking about the future, data is by definition incomplete, so we’re often relying on assumptions and personal beliefs. People often come into discussions with preconceived notions, and data can be skewed to support pre-existing perspectives. So how can leaders get clarity on the best path forward? The authors of this article have developed a tool that they call “strategic sparring sessions.”
^ADJ: Key takeout: "make their argument with statements starting with “The critical assumption is.”
Kind Engineering: How To Engineer Kindness
Kindness is a concept we can understand but find hard to define, which is why I really like the above definition from Tanya Reilly, Principal Engineer at Squarespace. Being kind is about getting invested in other people, it’s about meeting them where they are. It’s about putting yourself in their shoes and taking them, their emotions and their background into consideration as you try to help them.
^ADJ: Four key areas: Comms, Honesty, Psychological Safety & Feedback
The Operating Model That Is Eating The World
Today’s fastest growing, most profoundly impactful companies are using a completely different operating model