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This week:
Leadership is a decision not a position.
Today more than ever, we need purpose-driven and conscious leaders of all stripes to help us navigate the uncertainties of an everchanging social, economic, and geopolitical landscape.
Academics used to call it a VUCA world- Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous
Now the pundits are referring to it as a BANI world- Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible
But forget the brainiacs and theoreticians, how are you experiencing this moment?
This week’s missive explores leadership including local and impactful options to upskill your meta-competencies in the leadership sphere.
You’ve got this and we need YOU!
- A Stanford Business School Professor Just Gave the Best Definition of Leadership I’ve Ever Heard
- What Causes Poor Leadership? Research Points to Four Leadership Failures
- A CEO Should Only Do 3 Things. Delegate Everything Else
- The one surprising habit shared by the world’s best decision-makers, according to psychologists
- Steve Jobs Said Great Leaders Make One Difficult Choice Most Managers Avoid
- + 𝗛𝗼𝘄 D𝗼 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 B𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 L𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿, Right Here in San Diego?
That last question doesn’t keep office hours. It shows up on the drive home. In the quiet after a hard board meeting. At the end of a day when you poured everything into the mission and still wonder if you got it right. If you lead, you know the rest of them:
How do I get to the next level? How do I build a network beyond my own organization? Where do I find the people, the ideas, the resources that would make me better at this? How do I move my vision — and my career — forward inside all of it?
Most leaders try to answer those alone. You don’t have to… (read on)
A Stanford Business School Professor Just Gave the Best Definition of Leadership I’ve Ever Heard:
It has nothing to do with strategy, charisma, or vision. It’s about something much simpler.
“Great leaders are people who think of themselves as trustees of other people’s time.”
A Stanford Business School Professor Just Gave the Best Definition of Leadership I’ve Ever Heard
What Causes Poor Leadership? Research Points to Four Leadership Failures:
Companies create many of their own leadership problems by promoting capable people without preparing them to lead. What if the biggest leadership problem in your company is not a shortage of talented people, but the way you select, promote, and develop managers? Poor leaders are not bad people. Many are smart, hardworking, and technically gifted.
What Causes Poor Leadership? Research Points to 4 Leadership Failures
A CEO Should Only Do 3 Things. Delegate Everything Else:
This idea reorganized my entire working life. It fits on an index card. I’ve founded seven companies, and for the first few of them, I wasn’t the best CEO. Not because I lacked effort — because I was drowning in it. I wrote the marketing copy, tweaked the proposals, sat in on every interview, and answered emails at midnight like it was a badge of honor…
A CEO Should Do Only 3 Things. Delegate Everything Else
The one surprising habit shared by the world’s best decision-makers, according to psychologists:
It’s time to start thinking about doing some thinking about thinking. There’s a scene in the UK mockumentary series Cunk on Earth where the ill-informed investigative reporter Philomena Cunk is in a museum, looking at busts of Greek philosophers. Philosophy, she explains, “is basically thinking about thinking, which sounds like a waste of time, because it is.” It’s a funny observation, but as usual, Cunk is wrong.
Steve Jobs Said Great Leaders Make One Difficult Choice Most Managers Avoid:
Making people better requires high standards, honest feedback, and a workplace where people are not afraid of the boss. Apple CEO Steve Jobs speaks at All Things Digital June 1, 2010, in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. Jobs spoke about where he thought the industry was headed. There is a dangerous idea floating around the workplace: If you care about employees, you should avoid making them uncomfortable. That sounds compassionate. Sometimes it is…
Steve Jobs Said Great Leaders Make One Difficult Choice Most Managers Avoid
All fine and dandy but, what do YOU plan to do about it?
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝗜 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗮 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿?
That question doesn’t keep office hours.
It shows up on the drive home. In the quiet after a hard board meeting. At the end of a day when you poured everything into the mission and still wonder if you got it right.
If you lead a nonprofit, you know the rest of them:
How do I get to the next level? How do I build a network beyond my own organization? Where do I find the people, the ideas, the resources that would make me better at this? How do I move my vision — and my career — forward inside all of it?
Most leaders try to answer those alone. You don’t have to.
NCPC’s 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 (𝗜𝗟𝗔) exists so San Diego’s nonprofit leaders can stop figuring it out in isolation. Learn alongside peers who get it. Build real relationships. Broaden your perspective and sharpen the skills that make you more effective — for your team, your mission, and yourself.
The next cohort starts in September.
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Here is to your leadership journey.
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Love,
Neville
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