The Stretch Assignment
Real responsibility with real consequences, sized so that failure is survivable. Most development assignments fail because the leader retains the decisions and hands over only the…
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Spotting Capability Before It Is Proven
The signals that precede a record are behavioural and observable. The proxies most organizations use — polish, confidence, credentials, visibility — measure something else entirely.
Read →Mentorship, Sponsorship, Coaching, Networking
Sponsorship is what moves careers and it is the one nobody asks for, because asking requires naming what you want from somebody who would have to…
Read →What Mentorship Is For
Judgment is the thing being transferred, and it is the one thing that cannot be taught directly. Everything in this chapter follows from that constraint.
Read →The Culture Audit
Five questions, answerable in an afternoon from records the organization already keeps. It reveals the operative standard rather than the stated one, and the findings are…
Read →Inheriting a Culture You Did Not Build
A new leader has one period of unusual latitude and almost no information. Spending the latitude before acquiring the information is the characteristic error of a…
Read →Why Culture Programmes Fail
A programme addresses culture as a message. Culture is precedent, and precedent moves only when observed behaviour and observed consequences move, which no communications effort can…
Read →Reading a Culture Accurately
Surveys measure climate and self-report. What you want is behavioural evidence, and most of it is already sitting in records the organization keeps for other reasons.
Read →Crossing Fifty
Somewhere between forty and eighty people, informal coordination stops working. The transition arrives without an event, and the usual reading is that the wrong people were…
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