Do you understand the situation you’re leading in?This is part of a series about the leader as a student. So far, we’ve talked about being a student of human nature and a student of technology. Today, I want to talk about being a student of context.Here’s what I mean.You’ve been in a situation where someone
Do you have to be a tech person to lead today?No.But you do have to be a student.This is the second in a series about how leaders need to be students. You don’t have to master every tool and every technology. But you do need to keep learning about them, because technology keeps changing.And technology
How well do you understand the people you lead?This is the first in a short series about the leader as a student. And I want to start with the most important subject of all.Here’s what leadership is: getting results with and through other people.There is no leadership without people.Yet people are often the hardest thing
Do your people know what your priorities are?You have priorities. If your team doesn’t know what they are, they’re not really priorities at all.Yeah, you might have put them in a memo or an email. Had them on a slide during a meeting. But that’s not what they’re remembering.What they’re really remembering is what they
Can AI do this?It’s a question I hear all the time. I’ve certainly asked it.The answer is often yes. And even if your answer was no, three months from now the answer might be yes.But the real question is a different question.The most important question isn’t whether it can, but do we want it to?Listen,
A unified team sounds like a dream.It sounds so right. But it might not be what you think.If you’re thinking unity means people are compliant, not so much.If you’re thinking unity means everyone just gets along all the time, not so much.Unity is a choice people make. One person at a time, one day at
It seems like everybody says they want buy-in. It’s what leaders tell me they wish they had.To which I’d say: be careful what you wish for.Why? Because buy-in isn’t the holy grail.Why Buy-In Isn’t the Ultimate GoalI’ve talked before about how resistance isn’t as bad as you might think. And maybe you’d say, “I’d rather
You might have a training calendar.You might even have a full training calendar — one where people actually show up.But having that doesn’t mean you have a learning culture. It might support that culture. But a training calendar, on its own, isn’t a learning culture.So what is?A lot of people talk about culture and wrap
I hear it all the time.”We don’t have time for training.””People are too busy.”And let me say this: if you don’t have time for training, that’s okay.Wait a minute, Kevin — don’t you deliver training? Isn’t that kind of surprising coming from you?I’m not saying that because training isn’t valuable. It’s just that it’s not
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