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March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Ken Downer of Rapid Start Leadership provided ‘Set and Forget’ Leadership: How to Delegate So You Don’t Get Burned. Here’s a way to think about how to delegate that task we’ve cooked up so that things function smoothly in the kitchen, and nobody gets burned.” ” Follow Ken on Twitter at @RapidStartLdr.

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When Selling Digital Content, Let the Customer Set the Price

Harvard Business Review

This architecture reflects three key ingredients of today’s social marketplaces: Empowerment. Companies are embracing the idea of delegating activities to their customers. Integrate the idea of social capital in the monetization approach. We see this in marketing with product development and advertising, mostly.

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What Younger Workers Can Learn from Older Workers, and Vice Versa

Harvard Business Review

They have learned what and when to delegate, when to push back on the demands of others, and when to accept demands. The social capital embedded in these networks bolsters the acquisition of new skills through mentoring and coaching and can create the diversity of association which is so crucial to personal change and transformation.

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Use a Brand Council to Help Steer Strategy

Harvard Business Review

On occasion, these senior executives may designate lieutenants to sit on the brand council as their representatives, but they ensure the designees have the social capital, as well as the authority, to participate fully. It can’t be delegated to a marketing department or an advertising agency.

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