Serving and Leadership

" When we start losing our tolerance for vulnerability, uncertainty, for risk — we move away from the things we need and crave the most like joy and love and belonging, trust, empathy, creativity." — Brené Brown

Such an important realisation for leaders - no mistakes, limited progress, unhelpful culture, etc...

Feedback Loops Rule
To successful redefine failure it is necessary to change reaction to and how we feel about making mistakes. If we take an EASTERN approach with the journey as the destination we realize anything that happens is good.

Why is such a shift important? Internet marketing rewards the flexibility of process and thinking that views each step as progress. There is only one UNRECOVERABLE ERROR in Internet marketing - NOT playing. Everything else creates a feedback loop that will help sentient marketers get better.  

Some great techniques here.

Find all Personal Services businesses in Los Angeles, CA, California with their business address, contact and other information.

Great tips on how to do more of what we all know we should be doing more of.

This is a simple, yet powerful reminder about the power of perception. For me, the main takeaway is that I control my perception of the world around me. The world is colored by the lens through which I view it. It is so important, in our personal and professional lives, to seek multiple perspectives on any challenge before deciding on a course of action. I have learned that it is my tendency to jump into action quickly, usually basing my decision on an initial perception. Sometimes quick action is absolutely required, but sometimes it produces a suboptimal result.

Thanks for reminding me to allow myself to look at issues in my life through different perspectives in order to identify the best possible way forward.

As twenty-first century leaders, we need to understand that we are moving toward a NEW ethic, one that is built on duality.

In the OLD way of thinking, we based our leadership on a set of shared values and principles aimed at achieving moral perfection while maintaining social order and well being.

What got left behind in the old approach are the things that we are coming to value and seek out in the NEW: authenticity, vulnerability, unity.

The old approach was built on the duality of contradictory opposites. In or out. Black or white. Right or wrong. We divided things, labeled them, decided their value.

Love this post about leadership and duality...

Yes, Conscious Leadership comes from within.

And, it's about starting with ourselves because we are, first and foremost, the leaders of our own lives...

I love the idea of holding two thoughts at once....and how that must help inform our leadership practices.

Recognition is a key component of Employee Success. What gets recognized get repeated. Recognizing employees for hitting targets and exemplifying corporate values reinforces behavior that impacts the bottom line. According to recent research by Aon Hewitt, organizations with high engagement rates are 78% more productive than disengaged organizations. The powerful combination of engaged employees and brilliant performance is critical to business success.

Interesting stats on the effects of engagement on performance. Also worth noting the advice on recognition leans towards little and often.

Good list...what would you add?

Tpotally agree with Don on item #5.  I also like #3.

Create an environment of trust.

Many organizations believe internal trust is nice to have but not a key factor for bottom line profitability. That simply isn’t true. Trust directly affects speed and cost. When trust diminishes, speed goes down and costs go up. These economic factors are usually disguised as other things, but when there isn’t trust between team members, or between the company and its customers, it is impossible to achieve real success. The myths are that trust is built solely on integrity, that you either have it or you don’t, that if lost it can’t be restored, and that it can’t be taught. The realities are that trust is a function of both character and competency, it can be both created and destroyed, it can be restored (in most cases), and be taught and developed into a measurable strategic advantage.

IT in the workplace: the autonomy of the worker seems to be challenged by heavier surveillance mecanisms, such as Big Data, 

Is this big data gone bad?  Don't be that organization.  

In the book, "The Charge," successful entrepreneur Brendon Burchard comments, "the team and project-based work dynamic causes many of us to act in ways that actually impair our ability to learn."  

This stream will be about searching out ways to instill positive, systemic practice that support talent development to the fullest.  ~  Deb

We have choices, including deciding where you choose to focus your job search or entrepreneurial - intraprenuerial work, such as to include or NOT include a company that uses Big Data this way.  ~  Deb

Creating a personal brand isn’t so difficult. The main component is of course what you create and how you treat the people you interact with. How you define yourself, how you recover from set backs, and how you find ways to move forward in your career and to allow change to happen can only help you.