Leading Innovation - Module 3

Being in Tune

The best leaders are In-Tune and have a great deal of self awareness. 

They know what it feels like to work for them, how they come across to others, and how to get the best out people given their strengths, weaknesses and quirks but this isn't easy. 

Great Bosses are self obsessed and Beware of Toxic Tandem

Interesting shoes day: One of the secretary went to Exec VP to ask about Layoffs and the response to the question on how does she knows is about that he doesn't look into peoples eye when bad news is going to come which was basically an observation about him that even he was not aware.  

Power Poisoning: Effects of giving people power

• Focus on their own needs and concerns.

• Focus little attention on the needs of others.

• Act like the rules don't apply to them. 

The Cookie Study

Three students and Five cookies. Job was to solve problems. 

Assignment - Clueless Leader 

Ensuring the team can give you feedback. 

Assertiveness

Middle on the distribution in terms of pushing and understand when to get detach and when to quickly understand the situation.

Sign on when the leader is pushing too hard. 

Sign when the the lead is not pushing at all. 

Managing is like handling things in a moderate way, not too hard and not too soft. 

The Best Management

In lot of situation best management is no management at all. 

Managers - Overestimate "own" value and brining lot of problems by over nagging or watching employees. 

Practice includes: (For most innovative teams)

• Devote less attention to their people 

• Allow them to act without asking for permission

• Avoid enforcing rules - resulting is lesser innovation and problem solutions. 

  • This is only as the situation allows.

William Coyne "After you plant a seed in the ground, you don't dig it up every week to see how it is doing"