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Does your team need to be stronger and more productive? Do you need to put more people on your team? In The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo explains that great teams are led by even better managers. The managers have to build the team from the ground up, starting with the hiring process. Learn how to build an effective team that will make your business successful.
Does your organization’s culture need an upgrade? Are employees unhappy and unproductive? Some organizations are more effective than others. Tribal Leadership authors Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King contend that culture makes all the difference. Their book is an in-depth exploration of how to improve company culture. To make that improvement, tribal leaders coach their people through five stages. Let’s look at Stage 1 and explore paths you can take to get to Stage 2.
What’s a tribe? Why do we carry out work as a tribe? How could our work improve if we paid more attention to the tribe’s culture? Tribal Leadership is an approach to organizational development that puts culture first. Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King contend that organizations succeed or fail on the strength of their cultures and that we can improve our organizations by upgrading our cultures. More specifically, we need to develop the tribes—groups that share ways of thinking, interacting, and working—that make up our organizations. Keep reading to learn more about workplace tribes and why culture is
Are you wondering how to hire the right person? What kind of person does your company need to succeed? A critical element of team building is hiring the right people. According to Julie Zhuo in The Making of a Manager, building a successful team will help empower your company’s vision. Below, you’ll learn the key to hiring people that are fit for your team.
Who wrote Tribal Leadership? What are the book’s strengths and weaknesses? What impact has it had? The book Tribal Leadership was first published in 2008 by Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins. It’s the only book on which Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King collaborated. In the book, they describe how to improve an organization by leveling up its culture. An organization is made of tribes—socially networked groups of 20 to 150 people—and the cultures of those tribes determine the organization’s performance and its members’ happiness. Keep reading for our Tribal Leadership review, covering the book’s authors, context, impact,
What is the best method for facilitating a team purpose workshop? How can a team purpose workshop lead to greater success? To determine your purpose in the first place, Find Your Why author Simon Sinek and his co-authors created a step-by-step process that individuals and groups can follow in a group discussion or workshop. Sinek’s process to find your purpose helps you or your team explore past experiences for insight into what moves you. Keep reading to learn the steps for conducting the most effective team purpose workshop, according to Simon Sinek.
What is the best way to evaluate interview candidates? How should you decide which candidate to select? It can be hard to decide who to hire if every candidate is qualified. Julie Zhuo’s advice in The Making of a Manager can make it easier to make this decision through careful evaluation. Read more to learn how to evaluate interview candidates.
How did Ernest Shackleton step up as a leader when the Endurance sank? What are lessons on leadership to take away from Shackleton’s experience? In 1914, Ernest Shackleton and 27 other men set out on the Endurance ship to Antarctica, but the ship became trapped in ice. Shackleton effectively led his team through a time of crisis, and all the men survived because of his leadership skills. Learn more about Ernest Shackleton’s leadership skills from Alfred Lansing’s book Endurance.
What’s slowing down your business? How could your morning routine be more efficient? Every system has slow parts that drag the whole system down. Identifying bottlenecks is key to maximizing a system’s efficiency. In The Great Mental Models Volume 3, authors Rhiannon Beaubien and Rosie Leizrowice explain what bottlenecks are, how to identify them, and why bottleneck management is a necessary ongoing process in any system. Let’s look in detail at how to identify bottlenecks.
Are you trying to change the culture of your organization? What can you learn from Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture about this kind of leadership? Toussaint Louverture led the military and diplomatic campaign that liberated enslaved people in Haiti and set the stage for its independence from France. In What You Do Is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz draws cultural leadership insights from Louverture. Read on to learn more about Louverture and his leadership.