- Empowering people
- Get them to think for themselves so you don’t have to
Concept: What is the INTENT? Begin with the end in mind
ACTION: Thinking out loud
ACTION: Set expectations. People will adapt to anything as long as they can expect it
Steve Jobs was an asshole. He blew up on people and was a perfectionist. He was consistently an asshole though. People discovered his exceedingly high expectations. Once they knew what to expect, they were able to perform incredibly well
BEHAVIOR: ‘A-players like playing with A-players. They don’t like playing with B-players
Steve Jobs
BEHAVIOR: “Show me your metrics I’ll show you how I’ll perform”
Theory of Constraints
People perform based off the stimulus you give them. If you pat them on the back for shouting their praises from the rooftops that’s what you’ll get. If you praise them for helping out other people you’ll create a culture of people who help peopl
“The single most effective thing you can do as a leader is explain why your people are doing what they’re doing”
Colin Douglas
Not for money. Not for the time off. What is the reason the organization as a whole exists?
SKILL: Theory of Constraints
– Work in Progress
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STORY: ‘If the Mac boots up 10 seconds slower and 5,000,000 people are using the mac. That means 300 million hours saved every year’
Thinking 8 was impossible, the engineer got the Mac to boot up some 27-odd seconds faster.Jobs
This is paraphrasing… but this story stood out to me so clearly in Jobs by Walter Isaacson. Jobs was always focused on the bigger picture. The why. The who is this going to effect. He was obsessed with every little imperfection in the Mac and strove to make it perfect. He knew how much it would affect people.
EX: “The goal was never to beat the competition or a make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible… or even a little greater”
“[Steve] Jobs thought of himself as an artist and he encouraged the design team to think of ourselves that way too”Andy Hertzfeld on the creation of the Mac
Videos
Start with Why, Simon Sinek
Books
Turn the Ship Around, Navy Admiral David Arquet
This book totally transformed how I think and interact with people. You don’t be a leader by telling people what to do, you become a leader by getting people to think for themselves
My Reflections
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Weekly Wanderings
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