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Action Items to Items Actioned
Action items are a dime a dozen. How about actually doing the action?
Leadership Agenda
For effective meetings, you should go in with an agenda. For an effective leadership role, you should have an agenda, too!
Customer Success Success
Customer Success success. That's not a glitch in the matrix—that's what you should be telling your R&D team.
Aligning Motives
When there's an issue with an unhappy employee, many leaders succumb to external motivation tricks. A pay raise, titles, that sort of stuff. Too bad it simply doesn't work.
Tech Theft
When we cross the line from managing debt to stealing time from the company!
Mid Year Review
2022 is 50% over. Are you on track to make this an amazing year?
Ask Or You Shan't Receive
At least until we get neural links in all conference rooms, you can't expect to get things if you don't ask for them.
Mistaking Chaos for Autonomy
Do you really have autonomy, or are you, in fact, just playing by yourself at the little kids' table?
Would You Like Fries With That?
Are you an order taker or a leader?
Meatspace
Let's talk about what's happening around us.
Mea Culpa
Everyone makes mistakes. I made at least five so far today. What are you doing about it?
Do Repeat Yourself
Coding lore says we shouldn't repeat ourselves. Sometimes we should. Sometimes we should!
Seeking Assurances
If you're trying to ensure that everything is bolted down before starting your journey, you'll eventually realize you never really get going.
Timeliness
You are likely optimizing your team's time incorrectly.
Foot Out the Door
Are you acting with a foot out the door?
Ownership Cultivation
For changes to stick, your people really have to own them.
Clearing Vision
Hey, it's just a startup, right? You're not supposed to have a vision a year into the future! Or should you?
Seeing Red
Someone made a mistake, and you're all wound up. Whatcha gonna do?
Seeing in Color
As I work more with CEOs and CPOs, I see that we tend to view our counterparts in black and white. How about some color?
Grown Up Conversations
Let's talk about things like adults.
Personal Growth Attention
Your team's doing good, but how about you?
Breaking Momentum
Sometimes, going with the momentum is bad, especially for you, personally.
Fear of Accountability
You're not afraid of your own accountability, but are you holding your team accountable?
Bursting Bubbles
*Pop* It's time that you go outside of your little cocoon and see what is going on around you.
The Never-Ending Story
We're never gonna be done.
Choosing Yourself First
It is counterintuitive for many leaders to realize that they have to prioritize themselves for the rest of the team to be effective.
Universe Elasticity
As you gain more altitude in your role, you should use the better vision that comes with it.
Bright Spots
If you're feeling like all the wind has been knocked out of you as you're approaching another challenge, consider finding the bright spots first.
Growing Up
Sometimes we've got to grow up.
Staffing Your Team
Hiring people is probably taking up a significant portion of your and your managers' time. Are you doing it correctly?
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