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Lead More, Control Less
The leadership approach you’ll learn in this very approachable text by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff is one that focuses on structure, rather than behavior, to cultivate a culture of autonomy and self-leadership.
Who Really Matters: Your Inner Core Group
Summary: Our earliest experiences with Core Groups stay with us and become generalized. That is, without effort, we perceive and interact with all future Core Groups as if they were like the first ones we encountered. This hinders us from seeing the Core Groups of our...
Using your “whiskers” to detect disruptions you cannot see
When we started talking about the World Wide Web, it always went with a graphic of straight lines from data node to data node. We watched the brilliance of messages that were constructed so they could route around disruptions in the network. We have this whole mental...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & Diversity
Summary: Without effort, most Core Groups will tend toward the homogeneous and exclusionary. While you might derive strength though cohesion of an insular, non-diverse group, how do you know you aren’t missing something important as a result? Diversity is a key way to...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & the CEO’s Choices
Summary: As CEO, you have formal authority, but it is constrained by guesswork as well as the priorities of the rest of the Core Group. The best way to use your power as CEO is to create the conditions out of which a great Core Group forms and operates. Who Really...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & Expanded Core Groups
Summary: Some successful organizations have an “expanded Core Group,” meaning nearly everyone is part of the Core Group. The nature of these organizations varies, at each of them everybody’s welfare and development is one of the entire organization’s top priorities....
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & Welchism
Summary: Jack Welch-style management can be an effective antidote to complacent bureaucracies. Unfortunately it can also easily take the warmth out of a business and leave fractured and isolated Core Group with little ability to inspire commitment, foster quality, and...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & Incentives, Targets, and Measurements
Who Really Matters (Amazon, Goodreads, Powells) puts forth the theory that central to every organization is a Core Group of people who really matter. This post is part of a series summarizing the book and covers Part 2, Chapter 9: "Doggie Treats" (Incentives, Targets,...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & Guesswork
Who Really Matters (Amazon, Goodreads, Powells) puts forth the theory that central to every organization is a Core Group of people who really matter. This post is part of a series summarizing the book and covers Chapter 8: Guesswork . You may want to start with the...
Who Really Matters: Core Group Theory & A Core Group Way of Knowledge
Who Really Matters (Amazon, Goodreads, Powells) puts forth the theory that central to every organization is a Core Group of people who really matter. This post is part of a series summarizing the book and covers Part 2: Leading the Core Group, Chapter 7. You may want...