LeadershipNow 140: June 2014 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2014 that you might have missed:

• All Our Patent Are Belong To You by @elonmusk Technology leadership is not defined by patents. @TeslaMotors
• Ten Things You Will Learn from Writing on LinkedIn by @briansooy
• 30 Things You Need To Know To Be Successful via @Inc
• Learning organizations are less about IQ and more about EQ
• What it Takes to be Excellent
• Those who AREN'T committed find fault. Those who ARE find a way. Creating Happiness by @Leadershipfreak
• Developing your leadership presentation by @JohnBaldoni
• Increase Your Awareness by Predicting Results in the Planning Stage by @Bi11Fox
• Interesting infographic. Where's Silicon Valley talent from?
• Airstream: One of America's Most Iconic Brands
• From @nytcorneroffice with @AreTraasdahl, #CEO of @Tapad - "That Monkey on Your Shoulder Isn't Mine"
• Important to factor in! Writing Your Book: The Ten Year Test by @wallybock
• Busting Up Career Plateaus: How to Avoid Complacency and Remain Engaged in Your Work via @shawmu
• Good Luck or Bad Luck? Who Knows! by @LollyDaskal
• How to REALLY Listen by @JesseLynStoner
• Emotional Intelligence: Ten Things You May Not Know by @Lyn_Boyer
• Leading From the Middle by @danatheus
• FT: Rules alone will not stop bad behaviour
• How to Crush Departmental Silos by Deborah Wipf
• Good character isn't enough! 20 Habits of Untrustworthy Leaders
• From @Salon: The world needs “invisible” people: Why fame-seekers and attention-cravers have it all wrong
• 5 Leadership Mantras For Building Better Partnerships
• Leadership at the Speed of Change by @JamesStrock
• Success Requires Change by @faisal_hoque
• Tear Down The Walls So Trust Can Get In by @LollyDaskal
• FT: The dangers of passion for your work
• Creating the emotional culture of your workplace by @mjasmus
• Leadership Rituals that Make Each Day Count by @Lolly Daskal
• FT: The managers who fear conflict
• 5 Leadership Mantras For Building Better Partnerships by @faisal_hoque
• How To Speak In Sound Bites by @JohnBaldoni

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What it Takes to be Excellent

The Bleacher Report created this well done video: Cristiano Ronaldo—Greatness Awaits. It’s an inspiring look at what it takes to be excellent—at anything. The video concludes with:

And legends aren’t born from mediocrity. They are born from excellence. They are born from being the best. From being the hardest working. Legends are born from failure. They are born from falling down time and time again and having the grit to get back up again. Legends are born from adversity. They are forged in the crucible of struggle. Heroes come and go. But legends, legends live forever.

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How to Lead from Possibilities

Problems are always with us, but we don’t want to lead from problems. Lead from possibilities. Lead from the why. Lead with courage.

Kathryn Cramer calls this Lead Positive. “When you think, speak, and act out of the positive side of the ledger, others feel more hopeful and confident about the future.”

Cramer has created a 3-step process for reframing what we see, say and do so that we operate more from a positive outlook than a negative one.

What they SEE – how to see more of the possibilities than the problems of any given situation
What they SAY – how to connect the positive things you see to what you say to others
What they DO – how to use the positive trajectory of what you see and say to act intentionally

Cramer is the co-author with Hank Wasiack of the very good, Change the Way You See Everything Through Asset-based Thinking. She has taken those principles and applied them specifically to leaders and leadership. She writes:

Asset-based thinking (ABT) means to look at yourself and the world through the eyes of what is working, what strengths are present, and what the potentials are. [Reminds me a bit of the ideas found in Moneyball.] Conversely, deficit-based thinking means to look at yourself and the world in terms of what is not working, what is lacking, and the gaps between where you are and where you want to be.

Deficit-based thinking tends to be our default and is very draining on both ourselves and those around you. So ABT has to be a deliberate choice. ABT builds on what is working with people and in situations.

Our most difficult situations – the negative ones – are the ones that will benefit most from positive or asset-based thinking. For example, when people disagree with us it can quickly turn to anger. Cramer suggests that the best ABT strategy in response to conflicting points of view is to “be curious enough to find out why people oppose you.” It’s not about finding common ground – areas of agreement – but finding commonality – getting to a place where opposing parties understand where each other is coming from. “Curiosity sows the seeds of trust and creates opportunities to see value in somebody else’s points. When conflicting parties trust and can see the value in each other’s positions.”

Leading positive begins with you. It begins first with knowing your own assets – “to know beyond a shadow of a doubt who you are and what you are capable of.” We operate out of a perceptual set that biases our attention and what we see in any given situation. And that affects how we engage with those we lead.

Once you see yourself from a positive perspective you leverage the positive assets in the people around you.

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Of Related Interest:
  Asset-Based Thinking
  Change the Way You See Yourself

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Everything Connects

EVERYTHING Connects.

And because it does, “the depth of understanding that we have of ourselves and others will be the asset that we use the most throughout our working lives.”

Everything Connects by Faisal Hoque and Drake Baer is a book about how to create an innovative, sustainable organization. But it is much more. It’s about being intentional about relationships to create the space to do something great.

1. Converged Disciplines. Ideas from one discipline aren’t isolated from another. The disciplines in a sustainably innovative organization form a single entity. An ongoing part of identity building—both in our individual working lives and as part of a team—is to practice inviting a breadth of experiences, a pool of experiences from which we can draw on later in life.

2. Cross-Boundary Collaboration. No one operates in a vacuum. The more we can connect the people within an organization, the more we can increase our overall potential. Relationships are the bandwidth within an organization, which means we need to be deliberate in forming them. You have to quash any sense of a zero-sum game.

3. Sustainably Innovative Structures. If you are not careful of the culture that’s being created, it will merge thoughtlessly rather than by design. Organizational structures can wreck your organization if you rigidly cling to the product that they’re built to deliver rather than the value they attempt to create. “They couldn’t change because all they could think about was how to improve the thing they did, not the value they offered.”

All of this leads to setting up a system that continuously discovers. In other words, Hoque says, “we’re responsible for our long term growth in each short-term situation.” A long-term mindset that we manifest every day. Wedding the long-term to the short-term requires “mindfulness and authenticity, for mindfulness allows us to directly perceive our experiences in the moment, while authenticity acts as a star in the night sky, orienting us toward the future we wish to arrive at.”

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First Look: Leadership Books for June 2014

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June.

  How to Be a Positive Leader: Small Actions, Big Impact by Jane E Dutton and Gretchen Spreitzer
  Executive Presence: The Missing Link Between Merit and Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett
  It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best by Claudio Fernández-Aráoz
  Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation by Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent L. Lineback
  Uplifting Leadership: Your Performance, Your People, and Yourself by Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle and Alma Harris



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