David Norman
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A Visionary, an Integrator and a Rubber Band walk into a bar… … So, what’s the Rubber Band about? Consider, first, when a Visionary and an Integrator walk into a bar, it’s likely they will order different types of adult beverages. Visionaries and Integrators are just that way – different. Sometimes, this relationship is close …
EOS is all about focus, discipline and accountability and appropriately so. Successful organizations have all three. Lacking any one, the organizational results suffer. Yet, ‘accountability’ is often misunderstood and misused. In our every-day business language we say things like, “Go hold him/her accountable,” or words to that affect. Problem is, you can’t ‘hold’ anyone accountable; …
In discussions with an EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System, see http://www.eosworldwide.com) Leadership Team recently, a question regarding the benefit of known Values came up. An analogy came to mind, but, first, what are Values in the EOS-context? Core values are a small set of timeless guiding principles. Often overused, warn-out, abused, and maligned; yet, great companies …
Managers want to give all the answers, but leaders ask the tough questions. It’s a different way of helping people think through their own decisions and how it affects the organization. I have five pages of questions I recommend CEOs and leaders ask their people. Here are just some examples of the questions I use …
Some people — most people — rarely or never get to leadership. They’re too busy telling people what to do, directing them on what to do. If you go back to the old management books that were published up to and including into the 90s, management was taught from a Plan, Organize, Direct and Control …