Manifesto
What inspires me
- Courage is freedom + anxiety
- Relationships are primary; everything else is derivative.
- The only way to mobilize people is around purpose.
- There are no leaders, there is only exercising leadership.
- Being aware is more important than being smart.
- To be a better leader, develop more heart.
- Under pressure, how you do anything is likely how you will do everything.
- When in doubt, tell more truth.
- Think systems: Work to get the whole system into the room.
- Adaptability is essential for leading.
- Focus on capacities and potential; they bear more fruit than deficiencies.
- Follow a designed practice of development.
- Know the difference between wicked problems and technical problems.
- Listening is not a soft skill, it’s damn hard work.
- Observe, observe, observe; then interpret and only then intervene.
- People improve through feedback, not through rules.
- Nothing communicates faster then “being talked down to”.
- Grace is not being perfect. Grace is the speed of the response after the breakdown.
- Any behavior that is allowed to exist is, by definition, acceptable.
- Self disclosure without awareness is useless.
- Leadership is an inside-out job.
- There are two ways to build leadership capacity: hire it or develop it.
- Just because you are not sick does not mean you are healthy.
- Leadership is learned.
- People don’t get in trouble for telling the truth; they get in trouble for not telling enough truth.
- You can’t build teams in a lawless culture. Have a few rules and stick to them.
- Cultivate feedback closer to the event.
- Leaders grow more leaders.
- Teams = shared work and individual accountabilities.