The Curious Leader Aaron Bieber, Executive Coach
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Big ideas to catalyze your growth as a leader.
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The Fallacy of Stochastic Innovation
If you want to bring your staff back to the office, at least have the decency to be honest about the reasoning, and don't pretend that innovation requires collocation.
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Challenge expectations
Sometimes a new perspective reveals the foolishness in an activity that we carry out with great seriousness and zeal. What can a very funny comic strip poking fun at AI tools teach us about this?
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How to agree on something
The foundation of a healthy working relationship is agreement. Even when people have differences of opinion—and they always will—getting everyone on the
same page about broader goals and individual motivations produces better outcomes.
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"Do more reorgs" with Brian Guthrie
Instead of bringing you another analysis of a leadership topic laced through and through with my opinions, I thought it would be fun to share a new perspective. This time, from my old friend and former start-up colleague Brian Guthrie.
Brian recently started a company to help tech leaders visualize and execute smooth re-orgs, so we talked about that. What makes re-orgs hard? What would
make them easier?
Brian's company, OrgSpace, can be found here: https://orgspace.io/
Learn more about Daniel Terhorst-North here: https://dannorth.net/about/
The book "Dynamic Reteaming" by Heidi Helfand can be found here: https://amzn.to/3p8BAd5
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On the importance of writing
Can you think of any other skill that is required, crucial, has a wide breadth of mastery with a direct impact on the operations of a business, and which nobody is ever trained to do?
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Simpler isn't actually better
History has taught us that seeking simplicity, while often well-intentioned, can be disastrous. To be the nimble and effective leader who can manage through complexity with ease, you’ll need to do one thing that many leaders never learn to do: let go.
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