Getting to the Critical Few Behaviors That Can Drive Cultural Change
Focusing on a “critical few” behaviors is one of the fundamental tenets of working effectively with organizational culture. Sometimes called keystone behaviors, these are patterns of acting that are tangible, repeatable, observable, and measurable, and will contribute to achieving an organization’s strategic and operational objectives. The behaviors are critical because they will have a significant impact on business performance when exhibited by large numbers of people; they are few because people can really only remember and change three to five key behaviors at one time.
5 minute read - I love the approach of: "focus on a critical few behaviors helps bring about changes" ^ADJ
A 4-Step Process to Help Senior Teams Prioritize Decisions
Leaders and their teams often pride themselves on their ability to deal with an onslaught of decisions. But the reality is they often end up making rapid-fire calls on issues big and small and wasting their time. They and their organizations would be better served by an approach that treats decisions as a deliberately structured workstream.
6 minute read - made me think about "The appropriate delegation of decisions can free even more time" ^ADJ
When the automatons explode - MIT Sloan School of Management
As automation becomes cheaper and robotics innovation accelerates, how we work and who we work with will change. In this excerpt from their new book, “Machine Platform Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future,”(W.W. Norton & Company) MIT Sloan’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson identify five areas driving automation and consider where humans fit in the new world of work.
7 minute read - interesting stocktake as to our progress ^ADJ
Want to be Smarter? Learn to Say “I Don’t Know” – Personal Growth – Medium
We seem to live in a world where everybody is always certain and nobody is willing to concede that they might be wrong. It seems that it’s more vital to have any old opinion than to truly understand the contents of that opinion.
3 minute read - need to learn to say I dont know more often ^ADJ
Ears. Use them. | Lars Dalgaard | LinkedIn
In my experience bad sales people talk too much and LISTEN too little. If you’re closing deals, and you haven’t been listening aggressively, you just got lucky. That success won’t be repeated. Active listening sounds tired, I think of it as extreme listening, and here I describe how to make it part of your life. But using your two ears more, and your one mouth in that famous proper ratio, will probably help you in your entire life!.
2 minute read - I need to read, do better on this ^ADJ