Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2012

Have you ever worked for a manager that consistently helped you learn new skills and develop? It helps with recruiting and retaining the best employees, allows you to delegate so you can focus on what you’re being paid to do, or even take a vacation now and then. How do you do that? Here’s how: 1. Ask questions.

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Management How To Hammer Delegation 233

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Many leaders may consider empowerment a handoff – a simple process of delegating work. The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. Your behavior matters.

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Innovation Hammer Workshop Delegation 120

RapidStart Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Here are seven things you might be doing that deplete your team’s morale, and what you can do to get them motivated again. But if you punish someone for honestly trying, part of the lesson they learn may be that it’s not worth the attempt in the first place. It will encourage them to do more of the same.

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Hammer Motivation Goal Team 135

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Sometimes he wonders, “What am I doing wrong?” If you’re good at learning you can simply learn the skills that don’t come as naturally to you. Smart people also sometimes find it difficult to delegate because of a sense they can do a task better (regardless of whether this is actually true.)

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Succession Class Learning-by-Doing Teamwork 15

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 9, 2019

Why do palm trees that stretch to the sky often survive hurricane-force winds, while well-built frame houses give way like toothpicks? Do you adapt to your environment or are you stuck in your ways? Do you see the glass as half-full or half-empty? Learn from mistakes. Do you repeat mistakes? Learn something new.

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Hammer Learning-by-Doing Delegation Follow-up 104

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

There is simply no substitute for doing your homework on the issues, the people, and the context in which you’ll be negotiating. From studying great negotiators like Tommy Koh, we can learn (or re-learn) the fundamentals as well as inventive approaches to truly challenging negotiations. Master your brief. Focus On: Negotiating.

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Advice Hammer Seminar Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2018

How do you coach a leader whom others think is a hopeless case? We make assumptions and judgements based on our own experiences that often have little to do with the leader we’re trying to support. He was engaging, open to learning, and willing to accept his need to improve. Sometimes you can’t.

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Engineering Hammer Micromanagement Execution 15