Each week I collect the resources related to leadership I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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McKinsey & Company:
“Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers”
(3-10-23).
“Good managers with strong team relationships can lead their teams to higher organizational performance, drive more effective organizational operations, and provide the link between organizational vision and execution.”
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Stephanie Neal:
“The Human Factor: The Top 3 Concerns Keeping CEOs Up at Night” (3-21-23).
“[E]ffective coaching is critical: 85% of high-potential leaders want more coaching, whether from internal or external coaches, to help them develop as leaders. In particular, younger leaders crave this feedback and support to help them grow. This type of coaching culture needs to be modeled by the C-suite, both in how they coach others and how they welcome feedback and coaching from others.”
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Jim Harter, Gallup:
“Announcing the 2023 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award Winners” (3-29-23).
“[W]inners prioritized ongoing, meaningful conversations as an engagement and development tool. Managers who were intentional about checking in with their team members on a regular basis and asking open-ended questions were more mindful of employees’ individual strengths, insights and ambitions.”
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“Philosophy For Everyday Life:
Massimo Pigliucci considers the usefulness of philosophy.” (February/March 2023).
“What could I do better the next time? ….
[This] question is the most important, because it allows your mind to become ready for the next opportunity. …. So go ahead. Prepare yourself.”
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Brian Smith:
“Leadership Lessons For Creating A Positive Influence In Every Interaction” (4-4-23).
“Our responsibility is to be the best influence we can in every interaction. ….
In every encounter, reminding ourselves of the influence we project and the effect our words and actions have on others will keep us on the high road, moving in the direction of positivity.”
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“‘Time and again we have found through our research that in order for businesses to successfully transform, they must put humans at the center with empathetic leadership to create transparency and provide employees with psychological safety,’ said Kim Billeter, EY Americas People Advisory Services Leader. ‘Empathy is a powerful force that must be embedded organically into every aspect of an organization.'”
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Good leaders are good people. This includes being compassionate, i.e., desiring to alleviate suffering.
Clara Strauss, et al:
“What is compassion and how can we measure it? A review of definitions and measures” (July 2016).
“Following consolidation of existing definitions, we propose that compassion consists of five elements: recognizing suffering, understanding the universality of human suffering, feeling for the person suffering, tolerating uncomfortable feelings, and motivation to act/acting to alleviate suffering.”
