The following is a cross-post of something I wrote for O’Reilly Radar. Readers of www.readingaboutleading.com will see my cross-posts from O’Reilly two or three days after they are posted there. For the whole dialogue about Education 2.0, see http://radar.oreilly.com/edu2/ . O’Reilly’s blog is one of the best forums out there – I recommend a careful [...]
Ownership is not an intellectual state, it is a feeling. As such, you can talk about ownership and present the rational reasons why individuals on your team should take ownership until you are blue in the face and very little will happen. To understand some of the techniques that work to actually encourage your team [...]
Want to jump start your professional and leadership development? There’s something you can do that will dramatically increase the effectiveness of your change and learning efforts: make the shift from the pursuit of experience to a commitment to experiment. For a discussion of experiment and what it means for those who would own their professional [...]
If you want to know what it feels like to take ownership of your own leadership development, think about what it feels like when you make educational choices for your kids. Think about all of the things parents do over the course of their lives to help their kids to build a foundation for success [...]
Much of this discussion at readingaboutleading.com in March was about owning your leadership development. A fair question to ask is “why?” Why should I own my own leadership development when I can let my company own it – and they are trained professionals?” The core question, for anyone is going to be, “WIIFM – What’s [...]
When I ask leaders I’m working with who owns their leadership development, almost to a person they point their finger at themselves and say “I do.” They know they should. I know I should too. And yet, day in and day out, we don’t. Why? Three reasons after the jump.
A word I hear from every executive team I work with is ownership. What, they ask, can they do to instill a greater sense of ownership for the business or for deliverables? How can they get people to see the business as their business — how can they be asked and encouraged to act like [...]
