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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Firms that accept and accommodate remote and hybrid work will attract and retain talent and save on overhead.
Kim Parker, Pew Research Center:
“About a third of U.S. workers who can work from home now do so all the time” (3-30-23).
“Workers who are not self-employed and who are teleworking at least some of the time see one clear advantage – and relatively few downsides – to working from home. By far the biggest perceived upside to working from home is the balance it provides: 71% of those who work from home all, most or some of the time say doing so helps them balance their work and personal lives.”
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Shayne Elliott, CEO of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, interviewed by Joydeep Sengupta, McKinsey & Company:
“For ANZ’s CEO, there’s no looking back. To progress is to have the courage to do the right thing.” (3-31-23).
“Whenever I have asked people who are at the end of their career to reflect on their journey, they have often told me a story. In most of these stories, no one has ever told me that they felt they were too fast and too bold in their career. They always say they should have been even bolder and gone faster on decisions.”
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John Spence:
“How to be a better leader in 2023” (1-11-23).
“Invest time to explore your beliefs about leadership. What are the characteristics, values, and attitudes of the kind of leader you would want to work for? What are the attributes of some of the best and worst leaders you have ever worked with? What leaders do you admire, and why?
Next, create what I call a personal ‘Leadership Competency Model.’ This is the framework of the elements you want to embody as a leader.”
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“The Power of Stay Interviews” (2022).
“In this video, Dick Finnegan, author of ‘The Power of Stay Interviews for Engagement and Retention’ explains how stay interviews works and how they can help any organization with employee retention.”
Example: “What can I do as your manager to make work here better for you?”
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Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer, co-authors of Don’t Wait For Someone Else To Fix It:
“The 4 R’s of making good decisions” (4-12-23).
“When you reflect on the big picture, you ask yourself:
[W]hat do I want this decision to mean, not just in this instance but over the course of my life?
What do I want the impact of my leadership to be in the long term?
How do I want to present myself in life and as a leader?”
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Bruce Chinn, CEO of Chevron Phillips Chemical, interviewed by Adam Bryant:
“To Bring People Along, Leaders Need To Make Complex Things Simple” (4-12-23).
“I’ve never shied away from things that are challenging and difficult. You have to know there is always a solution, and most of the time, people are at the center of it. So, you have to engage people, bring them along, and take complex things and make them simple so that people can get their arms around the strategy or problem and help solve it.”
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Gabriela Riccardi:
“The best way to get teams to embrace change, according to science:
As it turns out, we should focus on what’s not changing.” (4-3-23).
“[W]hen leaders share a vision that links the future with the past, [the researchers] concluded, we’re all more likely to embrace change.
They name this approach a vision of continuity—or in practice, choosing to communicate not just how things will change, but also how they’ll stay the same.”
