Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
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Truly accepting dissent is one of the challenges of every human being.
Be it in the private sphere, in politics or in the workplace, the capacity to become enriched by other people’s opinions is crucial in anyone’s personal development.
This article reminds us that the weakness of many workplaces is precisely the fact that leaders rely too much on people who agree with them all the time. The simple truth of any hard choice is that if a decision is important and risky, it should be controversial.
In politics as well as in the workplace, real turning points are never smooth and include, indeed require, extensive and thorough debate. Even in the most heated discussions, one should remind himself of this elementary yet valuable truth.
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Serving on multiple teams can distract our focus, but it might be worth it.
Creative work is teamwork. As we push to solve bigger and bigger challenges, we seem to inevitably need more and more people to solve them. When it comes to organizational life, however, few people even find themselves a member of one team. Sure there’s your department, but there’s also the cross-functional team, the special task force, and the party planning committee. Many have found that serving as members of multiple teams at the same time is their new organizational reality. This presents a challenge for both team members and leaders: how do we allocate time to all those teams and how do leaders find the right people from the right team?
In a study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, two professors studied the inner workings of teams at a large, multinational corporation. When they analyzed the data, professors found that performance was higher for teams whose members committed more of their time to the team. Surprisingly, team performance was higher for teams whose members also served on a large number of teams at the same time. How could this be?
One explanation is that highly skilled individuals were more likely to serve on multiple teams. Those high performers may not have been the ones allocating lots of time to the team. Instead, they bring the benefits of expanded networks, additional knowledge, and greater access to resources…even if they don’t bring the benefit of allocated time. It’s worth noting there is an exception: teams whose members are involved in lots of other teams and are geographically dispersed don’t see a performance advantage.
If you’re leading a team or serving on one, the study has implications for you. To the best of your ability, try to allocate your time on teams who need your specific skill sets. If another team has a more important project, but has an equally qualified member, that should be your indication that you can spend time elsewhere. Likewise, if you’re recruiting new members to your team, make sure you know whether they bring an ability to allocate enough time, or enough connections, or enough resources to make it worth their minimal commitment.
Read more: The “Creative” Benefits of multiple teams
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Post by: marisalerno46
The “Creative” Benefits of Multiple Teams
The “Creative” Benefits of Multiple Teams
In an article published on Foreign Policy, the American Diplomat and Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns lists 10 observations on American diplomats that can be considered as useful advices for every diplomat:
1. Know where you come from.
2. It’s not always about us.
3. Master the fundamentals.
4. Stay ahead of the curve.
5. Promote economic renewal.
6. Connect leverage to strategy.
7. Don’t just admire the problem — offer a solution.
8. Speak truth to power.
9. Accept risk.
10. Remain optimistic.
Read the full article on Foreign Policy
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Jeff Haden has published an excellent list of “10 Things Holding You Back From Being Happy at Work“.
Here are the 10 Things to avoid:
1. Assuming your past dictates your future
2. Gossiping
3. Saying yes when you mean no
4. Interrupting
5. Being late
6. Resenting
7. Deciding you just don’t have the time
8. Fitting in
9. Ignoring your parents
10. Waiting
For more details read the full post on Inc
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Many people try to increase their productivity. There are people who scurry from task to task, always checking e-mail, organizing something, making a call, running an errand, as they think that “staying busy” means you are working hard and you are going to be more successful.There are innumerable hacks and tricks to manage your time effectively.
These are some useful tips to manage your time:
- Complete most important tasks first
- Learn to say “no”
- Sleep at least 7-8 hours
- Devote your entire focus to the task at hand
- Get an early start
- Don’t allow unimportant details to drag you down
- Turn key tasks into habits
- Be conscientious of amount of TV/Internet/gaming time
- Delineate a time limit in which to complete task
- Leave a buffer-time between tasks
- Don’t think of the totality of your to-do list
- Exercise and eat healthily
- Do less
- Utilize weekends, just a little bit
- Create organizing systems
- Do something during waiting time
- Lock yourself in
- Commit to your plan to do something
- Batch related tasks together
- Find time for stillness
- Eliminate the non-essential.
- Enjoyment should always be the goal. Work can be play.
Read more: The creativity post
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The free e-book “The Experts Teach: Leadership Skills“, by ManageTrainLearn, downloadable at bookboon.com, includes 25 articles from the top experts on business leadership. In particular these articles will provide original ideas and will help managers to develop existing leaders and create more leaders.
The key to success is to surround myself with people smarter than I am
Peter Parker (Former Chairman of British Rail), quoted in the book Tactics, the art and science of success by E. De Bono
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If you have a lot of work to do and you have difficulty in getting started, you can try this five actions suggested by Carthage Buckley in the Blog Coaching positive performance:
1. Create a good working environment
2. Have a productivity system in place
3. Know why you are doing it
4. Keep your work environment inviting
5. Have a weekly productivity review
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