And Why Me?
Leadership, as a general skill, is a differentiator.
I want to help increase the overall leadership capacity of the world through a community here and on my YouTube channel. This is a community that shares experiences, shares resources, share curiosity. I’ll set the tone with 5 minute reads weekly to help you find the leadership frameworks, books and articles you need to transform yourself through leadership, and through leadership your life, and career. And I look forward to your inputs.
Let me illustrate why you should follow by contrasting two teams I’ve lead:
In the first team, I had been working on the project for six years – since the first pencil hit paper. I was familiar with all the decisions, stakeholders, and requirements. I was omnipotent. The team was already high performing. As a result, I was able to make the best decisions and effectively guide the team without having to focus on leadership skills like delegation and management. We were wildly successful.
However, the second team was a low performing team on a failing project which I was asked to turn around. I struggled. I was not familiar with the project and tried to become omnipotent again, but there were already two other omnipotent members on the team. But we were still failing. Despite working 60+ hours every week for seven months, the project was never a success. I now know the team did not need omnipotence, they needed leadership and management. They needed someone to facilitate their communicate with each other so they could become one team.
After this experience, I decided to dig in and understand the difference between the results I achieved with the two teams.
I learned that I had to transform myself first in order to transform the team. I developed a virtuous cycle of reading and experimenting which lead directly to professional success. I built an approach to turn a low performing team into a high performing team, one who’s productivity is unleashed with everyone rowing in the same direction. And I’ve proven that approach multiple times.
I do this through a simple, overarching framework for a high performing team. And under that I hang dozens of other simple frameworks; to create a collaborative environment, troubleshoot teams, give feedback, mitigate conflict, manage risk, communicate effectively, shape culture, inform and make difficult decisions, operate with emotional intelligence, negotiate, hold people accountable, building vision, encourage innovation.
I’d like to share these frameworks to help you on your journey.
