Presenting Your Executive Potential. Michael Mauboussin. Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership's "missing manual" Test Your Assumptions — Speed of Trust. What a world we live in. This is an extraordinary time to be alive and to look forward to the opportunities and challenges that face us in the next few years. When we returned from Asia where we each addressed a large Japanese entrepreneurial conference near Tokyo. We were struck by the intensity of the participants’ attention and the quantity and quality of their questions. The number one question was, “How do you select a partner?” We suggest that talent is really the results side of trust. Jack Welch was asked, “What is trust?” There is an expanding global war of talent. This new, global economy is pushing and probing our very paradigms, perspectives, and expectations. A brief mention of a recent paradigm buster we encountered.
“The city of Dalian is situated near the southeastern tip of the Liaodong peninsular that hangs down from the coast of northeast China , the region formerly known as Manchuria . So, what’s our point? The rest of the story of Bo Xilai, Dalian ‘s mayor? Balance-AND-results. How Dean Foods built credibility by giving up control | SmartBlog on Leadership. This week, Miri McDonald attended Advanced Learning Institute’s Strategic Internal Communications Conference in Chicago.
Matthew Young, manager of corporate communications for Dean Foods, challenged the audience for his session: “Employees drive results. The question is what drives employees?” Young operates under the philosophy that employees are driven by meaning. Bringing meaning to employees and their work can help to drive behavior and in turn, drive results.
Young thinks that it’s meaningful for employees when you can match up what you are reporting with what they are observing. He uses an expression from gymnastics, “sticking the landing,” to describe this communications sweet spot. Dean Foods uses five keys to “stick the landing” of internal communications: Seize inflection points. Dean trusts that employees will use those messages on social networks to have their voices heard, understood and productive. Image credit, bmcent1, via iStockPhoto.com Related Posts. Five Ways for CEOs to Get Out of Their Own Way. Lately I've noticed a pattern among CEOs that I have been in conversation with. Many cannot get out of their own way and therefore are unable to move forward.
There is nothing more frustrating then knowing where you want to go and not be able to get there, especially when the buck stops with you. Here are five ways for CEOs to get out their own way in order to increase profitability, while decreasing stress. 1. Less talking and more doing: Having the same discussion about the same people months later and wondering why nothing has changed does little to improve the condition of the organization. 2. 3. 4. 5. You've worked hard to become the CEO. . © 2011 Human Resource Solutions. Roberta Chinsky Matuson is the President of Human Resource Solutions and author of the new book, Suddenly in Charge! The Psychology of Achievement: Develop the Top Achiever's Mindset (9780743526586): Brian Tracy.
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