When it comes to stimulating change in other people, how challenging can we be? How far and fast can we push? How can we best tell when we need to back off? Well, of course, it depends... It …
You need to not know
Or rather, you need to know you don't know. And you need your team to know you don't know and want their help. How else can they know they need to look out for missing information? They need to know …
If you give people the same facts…
... you might think they would come to the same conclusions. Actually, of course, maybe they won’t... They might have a different world-view, causing them to interpret the information in a different …
The necessary pest
How do you tell the difference between the troublemaker and the necessary pest? The thing is... We don’t have all the answers. We need other people to tell us when we’ve over-looked something, or …
You can’t really assess your staff…
... unless you’re sure you’ve provided effective leadership. If you’re looking for the people who work for you to be self-motivated and highly productive, you can’t sensibly begin to assess whether …
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An intervention needs to be an intervention
It takes a certain intensity to make something different happen. Merely exposing people to new ideas probably isn’t going to be enough if the hoped-for change is in any way an uncomfortable or …
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