miscellaneous
There are many great assessment models, and associated tools, to understand your personality, working style, and/or leadership style. Using a standard tool across your organization for your leaders is incredibly powerful to help leaders understand how to work together better, and how to consider candidates for key positions. Here&
leadership
I've been enjoying some old podcast episodes from Reboot.io, which is a coaching company. I was recently listening to this 2015 episode (Reboot Podcast #10 Fail with Honor), and loved Jerry Colonna's comment that the 3 core responsibilities of CEOs are: 1. Hold (and share)
Impact
Through a great friend, I got connected with Jennifer Jacobs last year, who co-founded Connect Our Kids. She has a fascinating journey, including serving in the military in roles relating to nuclear operations. After reading a magazine article about the challenges for social workers to identify relatives of children
miscellaneous
I was recently listening to a great HBR IdeaCast podcast about interview styles. The author, Anna Papalia, was sharing that she identified four different interview styles, but both interviewers and interviewees use, and how we should be more aware of those styles, and how they affect our assessments of candidate
leadership
I was recently listening to this amazing podcast interview of Lee Ellis by Jocko Willink (About Lee Ellis), and they talked about the leadership tension in balancing accountability (demanding performance) and caring (supporting your people), which was powerful to hear within the context Lee's 5.5-year Prisoner
leadership
I had the honor of teaching a class yesterday with a room full of incredible Veteran entrepreneurs as part of the National Center for Veteran Institute for Procurement (VIP)'s ADVANCE program for emerging businesses. VIP is an incredible organization, which offers different training cohort-based experiences for eligible
leadership
I was recently talking with a leader who is focused on maturing her organization's operations, and I suggested she start with a small effort of establishing a single, central playbook document (e.g., Google Doc or Word file in MS Teams folder) where they can begin to capture,
CIO
As an introvert, it’s easy for me, when under pressure to prioritize a heads-down, intense work mode, which can be powerful (e.g., Cal Newport's Deep Work and Pomodoro Technique). After enjoying yesterday's HMG CIO Summit, I was reminded that building professional peer relationships
lessons-learned
It's incredibly powerful to get tasks, goals, priorities, and meetings out of your head and into a system you trust (which is the core tenet of David Allen's great Getting Things Done methodology). Otherwise, you spend significant energy and stress trying to manage the chaos without
management
Time Block Planning is a simple concept of using a calendar view to plan your day's priorities, including both meetings and other work you'll prioritize. Many people have written about it for a long time, and powerful in its simplicity to force prioritization, so you'
investing
The Acquired podcast is fascinating. I heard about them recently from a Cal Newport blog post about their growth, and I'm glad I found them. The Acquired podcast deep dives into the stories of companies, after doing a huge amount of research, so it gives you great broad
lessons-learned
I enjoy the idea of being organized and minimalist but accumulate clutter faster than I make the time to put it away. Here's some stuff I've found useful as I've tried to make my desk an effective working space. If you want to go