The Stupid Edition of Intuition

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  Sometimes letting people trust their guts is a very good thing.  Sometimes it’s not.  Here’s one way to think about the difference. Conscious Competence Model Consider the conscious competence model.  People learning new things move from: unconscious incompetence to conscious incompetence to conscious competence to unconscious competence The move from unconscious competence to conscious [...]

The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential

One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This blog talks about what it is and how it is judged.

Great Leadership

Some thoughts on great leadership. The more we get into this, the more we’re becoming convinced that it’s all about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together to realize a meaningful and rewarding shared purpose Three truths leaders should keep in mind: 1) It’s not about you. (It’s about those “others” following [...]

Create – Control – Connect

Three words can make a huge difference to your onboarding success: create – control – connect CREATE Day One is a critical pivot point for people joining from outside the company. The same is true for the formal announcement of someone getting promoted from within. In both situations you can CREATE time and accelerate progress [...]