Tag: leadership
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Link: Greene steps down as Google Cloud CEO, to be replaced by Thomas Kurian
“We have moved Google Cloud from having only two significant customers and a collection of startups to having major Fortune 1000 enterprises betting their future on Google Cloud,” Greene said. Original source: Greene steps down as Google Cloud CEO, to be replaced by Thomas Kurian
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Link: It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture
Signaling change with symbolic acts that embody the new culture is a good way to activate leadership characteristics quickly. For example, companies can designate meeting-free days to emphasize greater focus on action over planning, or they can give engineers a cash allowance to buy their own desktop equipment to demonstrate trust. Sometimes even a bold…
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Link: Digital Transformation: Why Culture Is So Key
Culture is the most important factor, way more important than technology, for example. By culture, we mean a set of shared values and beliefs that drive a change in behaviors. This has to be both a top-down and a bottom-up approach. The CEO and the C-level executives must embody the culture and the DNA of…
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Link: Employee Engagement In The Digital Age
“Communication is essential to employee engagement. We are all plugged in and on our phones; we are always looking for ways to connect with employees electronically. In the workplace, it is the face-to-face that matters the most. The communication between a leader, a manager, or a supervisor and their employees is the most effective.” Nessing…
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Link: We need to talk about organizational change management
“Treat them with the same respect and reverence and results will follow. Treat them as a resource that needs managing like spare parts that can be replaced, and you’ll fail.” Original source: We need to talk about organizational change management
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Link: Employees should work on hard things, not easy things
‘For a business to thrive, each employee must ultimately be worth three times their wages to the business. That means if someone is getting paid $60k per year, their worth to the business likely exceeds $180k. People often underestimate what they are worth. One way people, especially more junior employees, underestimate themselves is by failing…
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Link: From Pink Milk to Smart Questions, How to Be a Rebel Leader
“We underestimate how flattering it is to be asked for advice. By asking questions, we give others the opportunity to share their personal experience and wisdom, thus stroking their ego. Curiosity is a way of being rebellious in the world. Rebels fight their fears and are willing to push past the discomfort of showing others…
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Link: 6 questions with winner of the 2018 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Leadership Award
“They won’t get comfortable with failure if you make a very big deal about it and keep reminding them that they failed. I normally tell them, ‘You found a way that doesn’t work, let’s go find a way that does.’ They are probably more sensitive to the voice of the leaders, so if the leaders…
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Link: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change
‘trust enables teams to “make decisions faster (and revisit them less often).” He pointed out that it encourages teams and individuals to “proactively admit to and learn from mistakes instead of scrambling to hide them.”’ Original source: Measuring Trust and Its Impact on Leadership and Organisational Change
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Link: Driving Diversity Change In a “Problematic” World
“If you’ve ever had to plan a long project — getting to the end state can seem so difficult and impossible. The work that takes to get there is painful and fraught with peril and compromises. We think the path to success looks like a nice, neat flowchart. We think change comes from the top down, or…
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Link: Why men need more consideration in the women in tech debate
Having to watch the kids is a big problem For gender imbalance in the workforce. Maybe dads can step the fuck up: “It’s also about asking men to ask for paternity leave. The amount of men that I know that say, well I’m given two weeks and that’s it. They don’t push it, they don’t…
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Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia?
“There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like Wojcicki, Sandberg, and—her controversial tenure as CEO of Yahoo! notwithstanding—Mayer. Each of them brought wider skill sets to the company in its earliest days. If subsequent managers at Google understood this lesson, that might have quieted…
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Link: IoT and the end of business as usual
“if today’s business leaders want to use their influence to promote this society they are so optimistic about, then they need to take the steps necessary to get us there. And that means moving beyond magical thinking and taking a long-term view.” Original source: IoT and the end of business as usual
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Link: Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Win – and Neither Did His Campaign
“During that first month, Walsh’s disbelief and even fear about what was happening in the White House moved her to think about quitting. Every day after that became a countdown toward the moment she knew she wouldn’t be able to take it anymore. To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the…
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Link: There’s a Trick To Getting Entitled Employees to Stop Complaining and Do Their Jobs – Management Matters – Management – GovExec.com
Getting jerks to do their job by having their peers manage them. Link to original
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Link: IBM’s Steve Mills retires
40 years at IBM, straight out of college. He built up the software group, then ended up managing hardware was well: the article says he was running $40bn of business for IBM. Also, he was an awesome interlocutor at analyst events: a fun character on the drama of the IT industry! Source: IBM’s Steve Mills…
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Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
“If a woman comes across as angry or critical, she is rated as 35% less competent and worthy of $15,088 less in pay than a woman who doesn’t rock the boat.” Getting Mad at Work Can Cost Women $15,000 in Annual Pay
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Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
Men apply for jobs when they meet 60% of the criteria, while women wait until they feel they meet 100% of the criteria. Words matter. Thinking about how you talk about jobs if you want more women to apply. – disambiguity
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The weekly manager meeting
Your job in a 1:1 is to give the smallest voice a chance to be heard, and I start with a question: “How are you?” The weekly manager meeting
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