Nothing can guarantee your promotion. Competition is fierce and new positions scarce. Opportunities for upward movement present themselves on a schedule you cannot control. There are, though, some specific things you can do to enhance your chances of promotion. A list of recommendations follows the jump.
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 [...]
This is a fantastic diagram from Great White Snark: (h/t O’Reilly). Its like MBTI for gizmo lovers!
Working mostly with tech companies for the last half-decade, one of the more frequent questions I’m asked is, “are we different?” Having worked with 30+ non-technology clients before I embraced my technophilia, my answer is some version of, “you’re different, but not for the reasons you might think.” There are fundamental differences between leadership in [...]
One of the challenges for global leaders working with Americans is a concept called face. Briefly, face is the extent to which a culture regards embarrassment as socially negative. A high face culture is one in which embarrassment is highly negative. A low face culture is one in which embarrassment is only mildly negative. There [...]
When you’re in a difficult conversation, whether its one characterized by conflict, evasiveness, or ambiguity, you’ll usually know it when the conversation is becoming less useful. Either there will be clear cues like the other person being visibly angry or disengaged or you will sense that things are off-track because the flow of your conversation [...]
Successful organizations own the sources of their competitive advantage. To a greater and greater extent such organizations seek to only own the sources of their competitive advantage. Everything and everyone else they seek to retain using commercial relationships that range from the trusted partner to the commoditized vendor (with those relationship evolving in one direction [...]
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.
1 — Dan Mulhern at Everyday Leadership has a good post about breaking change efforts into bite sized elements. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. See his post here. 2 – Tom Peters has a great review of Edgar Schein’s Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help [...]
Successful organizations have strong cultures. In fact, the stronger the organization, the stronger the culture. Organizations that succeed tend to stick with what works and, over decades of success in the rapidly changing field of technology, the point of continuity or stability is not the product or even the market sector – it is most [...]
