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Parkinson's Law is the adage that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - The Peter Principle is the principle that "In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence." - Baruch's Observation is "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." - Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology, “there is always one more bug.” - Ducharme's Axiom, "If you view your problem closely enough you will recognise yourself as part of the problem." - Executivecoachingguru says, "people will believe anything if you lean in intently and whisper it"Brand You – Top Tips
1. Accessorise so the top boys see you as one of them, don't over reach, just go for the next level. I know it sounds superficial (and it is), but you have to look like you belong in the club. But always remember 'subtle classic elegance' always beats 'trendy, flash and loadsa money'. Your accessories are reflecting your reliability and common sense and for heavens sake there is no point having a £500/$900 suit if you have a £50/$90 watch. 2. Have an elevator pitch of the benefits of what you are doing, not just the activities you are doing. Rehearse it, with eye contact and emotional content. 3. Understand who your boss is sucking up to and do it better. 4. Only put yourself forward for things that will succeed. 5. If you're responsible for it, then you should be in charge of it. 6. Seek 'face to face' feedback, tell them what you are going to do, do it, ask for feedback. Continue forever. 7. Have integrity. Stand for something. You don't have to be right, but you do have to have an opinion. 8. Be seen, press the flesh, have a tangible presence, take the long way everywhere, so people know you're around. 9. Practice your reactions and behaviours untill what isn't natural becomes natural, the first time to find out what you sound and look like when challenging someone, shouldn't actually BE the first time! 10. Don't gossip! Ever! I mean it! It'll kill your career faster than a bullet!Life is a one shot deal, leadership is only truly authentic when you lead as a whole person
"If I had my life to live over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax, I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments. And if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day. I've been one of those people who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have. If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies." - Attributed to Nadine Stair (85 years young)Control Panel
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That I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” - J.W.Goethe
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Leadership Perfection – We’re all human after all
“Why in the face of all that, did you not act to contain abusive
deceptive subprime lending? Why did you allow it to become
such an infection in the market place”
- Phil Angelides
(Chairman on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission)
This was the accusatory tone that Alan Greenspan the former chairman of the Federal Reserve met when giving sworn testimony recently to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. Rather fantastically there was a time when Alan Greenspan was considered the nearest thing to a deity, one could even say that there was a time when any form of statements against someone of Greenspan importance would have been an act of treason…..but not anymore, in deed those days are long gone.
In fact Greenspan stated: “In the business I was in, I was right 70% of the time, but I was wrong 30% of the time” , what I like about this is the reminder to all of those involved in Leadership that the ‘mighty have indeed fallen’ and this is a different time; in fact far brighter and senior people than you have fallen in the eyes of the observers of this factors. There are now huge portions of the public who don’t really believe in the leadership of the world any more, you only have to look at voter apathy to understand that people ‘don’t believe’; and that runs down all the way to the man on the street not holding senior management in the god like positions they may have done previously.
Greenspan was able to ‘demonstrate some humanity’, but I’m unaware of that ‘humanity’ existing pre-testification! It often feels that the seeking of forgiveness only comes after things have gone wrong. There’s something there for us to think about, the ‘seeking of forgiveness as you recognise something has gone wrong’ not just when you might be caught.
As leaders there is something incredibly authentic, human and believable about someone who says, “sorry”, when they technically don’t have to. As an executive coach I often hear senior leaders verbalising that they have made a mistake and want to navigate their way through it and “what should I do?”. It’s a simple position that I take:
“Tell the people that need telling the truth”
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