Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
I’m devoting this week’s articles to author Gary B. Cohen’s recent book, Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions. In previous articles I reviewed the book and shared an interview with Gary. Today’s article is a guest post from Gary on how Just Ask Leadership intersects with Reflection Leadership.
With so many organizations, governments, and industries imperiled by poor decision-making, leadership has come under question. And justifiably so. The knee-jerk response in times of crisis is for leaders to command more and ask less—to entrust decision-making to fewer and fewer people. But [...]
Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes
Effective leaders are really good at being able to read situations and accurately understand what is going on. They are also able to successfully adjust their behavior, based on the situation, to respond appropriately. One of the things that determines our ability to be able to accurately read situations and respond with the appropriate behavior is our level of self-monitoring.
The concept of self-monitoring was added to the psychology of personality back in the mid-1970’s when it was developed by Mark Snyder. According to Snyder, individuals fall along a continuum from Low Self-Monitoring to High Self-Monitoring. [...]
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
I’ve often said that Reflection Leadership starts with being able to take the time to stop and reflect on what is going on around us. But what happens when you feel like you can’t take the time to stop and reflect? I found myself in this exact situation this week.
There’s Work To Be Done
I’m currently working on the final stages of a large project that started a year ago that will culminate with a large number of deliverables 17 days from now. This project touches most of the organization and has required the efforts of [...]
Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes
I really wish I could figure out the lesson that the universe is trying to get me learn. For the second time in just over five years, I’m finding myself in a situation where I just can’t win. After a successful tenure at three (and a half) different jobs, the last two have turned out to be hard to understand.
I was brought up in a time when hard work and perseverance was not only strived for, but rewarded. When looking at the generation that I belong to, I end up being a tweener. I was [...]
Reading time: 4 – 6 minutes
In two of my previous articles, I looked at an explanation of why people behave the way they do and why it’s important for leaders to monitor their own behavior. In this article, I’d like to explore why this is all so important for leaders to understand as they are working with others.
To quickly review: as we experience various “events” we filter what we experience through the rocks that we carry around with us (our values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations). This filter allows us to add our perception and judgement to what we’ve observed, leading [...]
