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Be True to Yourself – Reach Your Potential – What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 29, 2024
Topics: leadership, questions, Effective Leadership, Play to Your Strengths, Scaling Leadership, Reach our potential, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan
Evaluation and Alignment - What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 15, 2024
We are diving into Harvard Professor Robert Steven Kaplan’s What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.
Read MoreTopics: leadership, questions, Alignment, Scaling Leadership, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan, Vision and Alignment
Successful business leaders seldom have all the answers. That’s the lesson from What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential, by Harvard Professor Robert Steven Kaplan.
Read MoreTopics: leadership, questions, CEO Leadership Focus, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Topics: employee performance, questions, Leadership Is Language, David Marquet
Topics: priorities, questions, metrics, daily huddle
One of my clients reminded me this week of an important leadership lesson. Quit answering your subordinate’s questions. I’ve blogged on this before The Problem with being the Chief Problem Solver, yet it bears repeating. My client had one of his managers ask him “what should I do?” Many leaders and managers would immediately provide an answer. It’s fast, painless, and allows you to move on to your own issues. Yet what does that teach? What’s more what does it continue to do?
Topics: Discipline, leadership, meeting rhythms, questions