Long ago, I was working with a company when one of the managers told me that the CEO was running the company to Sell not to grow. I didn’t understand it at the time but six months later the company sold. When you’re positioning a company to sell, what happens externally to it are very important and how it looks. You aren’t thinking about growth in regards to – we need to hire two more…
I am tired of people not showing up for meetings. Showing up can take the form of any or some of the following; Not preparing for the meeting.Interrupting people.Setting the meeting back with irrelevant questions. I’m tired of those things happening on my ZOOM calls. Yes we might be tired of having to have all the meetings, but let’s not confuse ZOOM with our inherent meeting culture which is the real problem.
So here it is… Now get back to it.
When was the last time you took a step back from the work your team was doing and thought about how they are doing? Are they struggling? Are they stuck? Where do they need help? This isn’t about delivery, this is about growth, their growth, what is next, what they want to be doing, where they need to go. This also isn’t about your vision for them, it’s about them and what they want to…
When we think of a vacuum of “something” we think of an emptiness, a loss, a hole of something that should be there. Its worst than that. A vacuum is the motion by which something is there is sucked out into something else. So when we talk about Vacuum of Leadership we are really talking about those skills being sucked out of one area to another area. We see this quite often in the re-juggling…