RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 10, 2018

It’s good to consult other sources – books, blogs, people, but manage how you spend that time. For each of their master works, they also produced hundreds of lesser pieces. The more you produce, the better the odds that something will be great. Allot time. The goal is not simply to listen and repeat.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 13, 2017

Organizations have managers and supervisors. Are you waiting for permission to proceed? Traffic signals organize and coordinate the flow of traffic. They keep things safe and orderly. We wait for the green light to proceed. They direct the traffic too. Most people wait to be told what to do, then do it. But leaders don’t wait.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 25, 2017

He invited the General Manager to ride with him to see his district. Bratton picked up the manager in a small car, just like the ones he proposed buying. It only took two hours, and the Manager had seen enough. But the outcome would be uncertain; he might end up with the smaller cars anyway.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 30, 2017

When I hear of the exploits of amateur climbers who somehow manage to summit Mount Everest, it makes me wonder – how many more times has his guide been to the top?

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Wilde Sports Positioning Follow-up 120

RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 24, 2016

Buddy manages to find joy everywhere he goes. Whether he’s spinning in a revolving door, jumping the stripes of a crosswalk, or dancing in the mail room with ex-convicts, he manages to find ways to make whatever he’s doing fun for everyone. It’s OK to have a little fun.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2017

There are lots of other techniques to help you stay mentally tough and keep going in the face of adversity, whether it’s managing your expectations at the outset, focusing on the goal instead of the stuggle, or learning to take things one step at a time. And like Norman Hall, you’ll find that some doors will open.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 10, 2022

Time - there's never enough of it, and everyone seems to want more; is making time an option? With a change of perspective, I think so. The post Making Time: There’s Never Enough; Can We Make More? appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 13, 2017

Sometimes leader isolation can come from a sense of getting stuck between the competing demands of higher management and the needs of your team. Did they bring you that cup of coffee because they know you’re having a tough day, or because they want something from you? Caught between. Making the hard decisions.

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 9, 2017

After weeks of laborious effort, he had managed to drill through 686 feet of solid limestone with no luck. Oil had recently been found not far away on Black Creek. Not as Easy as He Thought. But the quick success he hoped for was not to be.

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RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 27, 2017

Let’s take a look – in many ways, I think by mimicking its six secrets of success, we might manage to become a little bit greater ourselves. Yet this was the same river that travels over 2,000 miles and drains the watershed of 31 states and two Canadian provinces. So how does it grow to become the river of legend and song?

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Succession Advertising Servant Leader Follow-up 140

RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 1, 2017

It took a little while, but working together they managed to get the valve unstuck. After tracing the water pipes back to the main water tank, the boys discovered that the valve had been jammed and a pipe damaged. Once the water began to flow, everyone wanted to drink, but the Eagles didn’t have their canteens.

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RapidStart Leadership

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A department manager named Gary Lorgan knew that his employees enjoyed working on special work-related projects as teams. You can use Grandma’s Law in a team setting as well. In his book “Bringing out the Best in People” author and clinical psychologist Aubrey Daniels gives the example of a production team at a Kodak factory.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 20, 2017

Solve problems, don’t manage them. Walking around also gives you the opportunity to see if what you thought was happening is really turning out as you imagined. You may identify some problems of your own. Related: Getting Down in the Trenches. When you find a problem, solve it.

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Books Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Follow-up 144

RapidStart Leadership

JUNE 20, 2017

Daily (Micro) Management. I can think of at least four times when it would be better to stop ourselves, and show some leader patience. Even though it might be a little painful in the short run, it can be immensely beneficial in the long run. 4 Times to Stop Yourself.

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RapidStart Leadership

AUGUST 22, 2017

So naturally, we pushed harder, and managed to set our log down five feet beyond where they had stopped — just to spite them. With every step we took, the log got heavier, but we soon realized that we were going to be able to make it almost as far as the first crew had.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 5, 2017

All I could manage was a fast walk. Seven feet square, the tunnels were long and dark. The confined quarters brought the water to shin-depth. By the end of the tunnels, my feet were numb and clumsy. A final insult.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We managed to stay ahead of them, coming across the line in third, and collapsing in a heap at the finish. When their teammate could run no more, they had stopped just long enough to pick him up, place him on their shoulders, and start running again. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Seven guys running; one stretched out on their shoulders.

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RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Last week we talked about the importance of seeking to understand your leadership environment before you start trying to lead. And if you were taking good notes and paying attention to the people you talked with, you should have a pretty good idea of the direction you want to take your team. Now the question becomes, how do you get them there?

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RapidStart Leadership

MAY 23, 2017

Manage time differently. This encouraged serendipitous interactions between people who might not otherwise meet, and that led to bursts of unexpected creativity. How could you could change your seating plan to stimulate new thinking, unexpected interactions, and changed perspectives? See what happens when you tinker with timelines.

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