9 hrs 4 mins | BUSINESS and ECONOMICS | LeadershipLEADERSHIP LESSONS is a book that is all about How to Improve Organisational Performance. According to the Oxford dictionary, an essay “is a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic.” The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term “projects” spans quite a range of subject matter, and purposes for their existance. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays are improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organisations. The purpose is to help or...
LEADERSHIP LESSONS is a book that is all about How to Improve Organisational Performance. According to the Oxford dictionary, an essay “is a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic.” The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term “projects” spans quite a range of subject matter, and purposes for their existance. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays are improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organisations. The purpose is to help organisations and the people within them to be able to realise their indifividual and collectve potential.
Often business-type books require that a reader slogs all the way through until a light-bulb might possibly go on. By writing this book as a series of essays (each barely two pages long), with some luck, readers will be able to read in almost ‘’bite-size’’ increments, with each essay standing on its own. This makes Leadership Lessons perfect for travel or breaks between meetings.
The essays contained in the subsequent pages are printed in more-or-less chronilogically in the order that they were written in, with many of the essays being titled in the form of a question. The reason for the title being in the form of a question is that whilst most any manager in an organisation will be (or should be) looking for answers, it now 2019 and it should be clear that if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.
| # | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | 00 Introduction - 16-01-2022, 17.47 |
0 mins 54 secs |
| 2. | 01 Really- More of the Same- - 16-01-2022, 17.51 |
5 mins 12 secs |
| 3. | 02 Are You on the Peter the Great |
6 mins 24 secs |
| 4. | 03 Why Are We So Addicted to Fire-Fighting- - 16-01-2022, 17.54 |
6 mins 19 secs |
| 5. | 04 Why Can Collaborative Efforts Become Adversarial- - 16-01-2022, 17.54 |
6 mins 56 secs |
| 6. | 05 What Is the Unintended Cost of Cost-Cutting- - 16-01-2022, 17.56 |
5 mins 30 secs |
| 7. | 06 Why Is It So Difficult to Get to the Finish Line- - 16-01-2022, 17.57 |
6 mins 59 secs |
| 8. | 07 What is Wrong with this Picture- - 16-01-2022, 17.58 |
5 mins 38 secs |
| 9. | 08 What Can We Do About Our Baggage- - 16-01-2022, 17.59FIXED |
5 mins 15 secs |
| 10. | 09 Drinking the Kool-Aid- - 16-01-2022, 18.00 |
5 mins 18 secs |
| 11. | 10 Why Do We Allow Gaming the System to Continue- - 16-01-2022, 18.01 |
5 mins 04 secs |
| 12. | 11 Searching for the Horizon- - 16-01-2022, 18.02 |
5 mins 09 secs |
| 13. | 12 When Is -Doing Enough,- Not Enough- - 16-01-2022, 18.03 |
4 mins 44 secs |
| 14. | 13 And On the Third Day...- - 16-01-2022, 18.04 |
5 mins 12 secs |
| 15. | 14 Stay Hungry; Stay Foolish - 16-01-2022, 18.04 |
5 mins 13 secs |
| 16. | 15 Mr. Sawyer's Solution - 16-01-2022, 18.05 |
6 mins 51 secs |
| 17. | 16 Measure Twice; Cut Once - 16-01-2022, 18.06 |
5 mins 22 secs |
| 18. | 17 How Many Options Do You Need- - 16-01-2022, 18.07 |
5 mins 22 secs |
| 19. | 18 Divining Success- - 16-01-2022, 18.08 |
5 mins 14 secs |
| 20. | 19 IKEAN Lessons - 16-01-2022, 18.09 |
5 mins 34 secs |
| 21. | 20 Events Dear Boy, Events - 16-01-2022, 18.11 |
5 mins 25 secs |
| 22. | 21 The Downside to -Stepping In- - 16-01-2022, 18.12 |
4 mins 09 secs |
| 23. | 22 Blinded By Our Own Beliefs - 16-01-2022, 18.12 |
5 mins 38 secs |
| 24. | 23 Have You Tied Your Own Hands- - 16-01-2022, 18.13 |
5 mins 15 secs |
| 25. | 24 Happy Salmon Day - 16-01-2022, 18.14 |
5 mins 15 secs |
| 26. | 25 The Wisdom of Marx - 16-01-2022, 18.15 |
5 mins 10 secs |
| 27. | 26 When the Truth May Not Be the Truth - 16-01-2022, 18.16 |
5 mins 18 secs |
| 28. | 27 Mustard Lessons - 16-01-2022, 18.16 |
5 mins 45 secs |
| 29. | 28 Ensuring All the Pieces Fit Together - 16-01-2022, 18.17 |
7 mins 55 secs |
| 30. | 29 The Onset of Creep - 16-01-2022, 18.19 |
5 mins 44 secs |
| 31. | 30 It's All About Perspective - 16-01-2022, 18.20 |
5 mins 32 secs |
| 32. | 31 Not Seeing the Signals- - 16-01-2022, 18.21 |
5 mins 37 secs |
| 33. | 32 The Observor's Paradox - 16-01-2022, 18.22 |
5 mins 50 secs |
| 34. | 33 Trying to Stay Dry- - 16-01-2022, 18.23 |
5 mins 42 secs |
| 35. | 34 An Oncoming Train- - 16-01-2022, 18.24 |
4 mins 28 secs |
| 36. | 35 None of the Above- - 16-01-2022, 18.25 |
5 mins 07 secs |
| 37. | 36 Being on the Edge - 16-01-2022, 18.26 |
5 mins 31 secs |
| 38. | 37 Right in Front of You - 16-01-2022, 18.27 |
5 mins 42 secs |
| 39. | 38 A Business -Bad-Hair- Day - 16-01-2022, 18.27 |
5 mins 19 secs |
| 40. | 39 Plastics - 16-01-2022, 18.28 |
5 mins 20 secs |
| 41. | 40 A Shark in Formaldehyde - 16-01-2022, 18.29 |
6 mins 29 secs |
| 42. | 41 The Play's the Thing - 16-01-2022, 18.31 |
5 mins 17 secs |
| 43. | 42 Are We Asking the Right Questions- - 16-01-2022, 18.32 |
5 mins 27 secs |
| 44. | 43 What You Plant is What You Get - 16-01-2022, 18.34 |
4 mins 21 secs |
| 45. | 44 Total and Complete Rectitude - 16-01-2022, 18.35 |
5 mins 28 secs |
| 46. | 45 Team Building Folly - 16-01-2022, 18.36 |
6 mins 00 secs |
| 47. | 46 Mirror, Mirror On the Wall - 16-01-2022, 18.37 |
5 mins 35 secs |
| 48. | 47 Athenium Wisdom - 16-01-2022, 18.38 |
5 mins 26 secs |
| 49. | 48 Waiting for the Dot- - 16-01-2022, 18.39 |
5 mins 13 secs |
| 50. | 49 Business Brownian Motion - 16-01-2022, 18.39 |
5 mins 27 secs |
| 51. | 50 Chart Folly - 16-01-2022, 18.40 |
5 mins 24 secs |
| 52. | 51 Brick Walls - 16-01-2022, 18.41 |
5 mins 04 secs |
| 53. | 52 Out of Stones- - 16-01-2022, 18.42 |
4 mins 15 secs |
| 54. | 53 Seeing the Gorilla- - 16-01-2022, 18.43 |
5 mins 17 secs |
| 55. | 54 The Delegation Conundrum - 16-01-2022, 18.44 |
5 mins 36 secs |
| 56. | 55 The New Maths - 16-01-2022, 18.45 |
5 mins 24 secs |
| 57. | 56 The Power of Ladders - 16-01-2022, 18.46 |
5 mins 18 secs |
| 58. | 57 Seeing Where You Really Are - 16-01-2022, 18.46 |
4 mins 55 secs |
| 59. | 58 The Rucksack Problem - 16-01-2022, 18.47 |
5 mins 09 secs |
| 60. | 59 When Only the Annointed Survive - 16-01-2022, 18.48 |
5 mins 52 secs |
| 61. | 60 Robbing Peter to Pay Paul - 16-01-2022, 18.49 |
6 mins 23 secs |
| 62. | 61 Recognising Your Tipping Point - 16-01-2022, 18.51 |
5 mins 27 secs |
| 63. | 62 Driving Lessons from Mr. Moss - 16-01-2022, 18.52 |
5 mins 30 secs |
| 64. | 63 The Fine Art of Using Tourniquets - 16-01-2022, 18.53 |
6 mins 15 secs |
| 65. | 64 The Return of the Mad Hatter- - 16-01-2022, 18.54 |
5 mins 54 secs |
| 66. | 65 Do You Really Want the Shirt- - 16-01-2022, 18.55 |
5 mins 45 secs |
| 67. | 66 Compliance or Commitment- - 16-01-2022, 18.56 |
5 mins 06 secs |
| 68. | 67 Hearing the Hum- - 16-01-2022, 18.56 |
5 mins 18 secs |
| 69. | 68 Those -E- Words - 16-01-2022, 18.58 |
5 mins 40 secs |
| 70. | 69 It's Never Too Late - 16-01-2022, 18.59 |
5 mins 12 secs |
| 71. | 70 Bending Spaghetti - 16-01-2022, 19.00 |
5 mins 25 secs |
| 72. | 71 Position Determines Perspective - 16-01-2022, 19.00 |
5 mins 08 secs |
| 73. | 72 Churchill's Truth - 16-01-2022, 19.01 |
5 mins 26 secs |
| 74. | 73 The Magic Square of Leadership - 16-01-2022, 19.02 |
5 mins 05 secs |
| 75. | 74 The Rectilinear Trap - 16-01-2022, 19.03 |
4 mins 44 secs |
| 76. | 75 Filling the Gaps - 16-01-2022, 19.04 |
5 mins 18 secs |
| 77. | 76 Carrots and Sticks - 16-01-2022, 19.05 |
5 mins 19 secs |
| 78. | 77 What's the Big Deal with Mental Models- - 16-01-2022, 19.05 |
6 mins 03 secs |
| 79. | 78 The Dark Side of Alignment - 16-01-2022, 19.06 |
5 mins 09 secs |
| 80. | 79 Wishing for Oprah- - 16-01-2022, 19.07 |
5 mins 24 secs |
| 81. | 80 Talking Rubbish - 16-01-2022, 19.08 |
5 mins 24 secs |
| 82. | 81 Over-Used and Abused - 16-01-2022, 19.09 |
5 mins 31 secs |
| 83. | 82 Doing Your Job - 16-01-2022, 19.09 |
5 mins 47 secs |
| 84. | 83 Michelin Expectations - 16-01-2022, 19.10 |
5 mins 23 secs |
| 85. | 84 Crucial for Whom- - 16-01-2022, 19.11 |
6 mins 19 secs |
| 86. | 85 Organisational Mandarins - 16-01-2022, 19.12 |
5 mins 05 secs |
| 87. | 86 Hayflick's Phases - 16-01-2022, 19.13 |
5 mins 38 secs |
| 88. | 87 Having It All - 16-01-2022, 19.14 |
6 mins 02 secs |
| 89. | 88 Reaping What We Sow - 16-01-2022, 19.15 |
5 mins 30 secs |
| 90. | 89 What Is Your Achilles Heel- - 16-01-2022, 19.16 |
5 mins 43 secs |
| 91. | 90 The -A- Word - 16-01-2022, 19.17 |
5 mins 07 secs |
| 92. | 91 When Things Are Not As They Seem - 16-01-2022, 19.18 |
3 mins 31 secs |
| 93. | 92 The Influencing Challenge - 16-01-2022, 19.18 |
5 mins 39 secs |
| 94. | 93 Un Capricho- - 16-01-2022, 20.00 |
5 mins 00 secs |
| 95. | 94 The Easy Part is the Glasses - 16-01-2022, 20.00 |
5 mins 33 secs |
| 96. | 95 Is Alchemy a Management Competence- - 16-01-2022, 20.01 |
5 mins 43 secs |
| 97. | 96 Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli - 16-01-2022, 20.02 |
2 mins 57 secs |
| 98. | 97 Flushing Yourself Down the Drain- - 16-01-2022, 20.03 |
10 mins 25 secs |
| 99. | 98 All Roads Lead to Chicago - 16-01-2022, 20.04 |
6 mins 24 secs |
| 100. | 99 Closing |
0 mins 30 secs |
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