It's only with the Practice of Leadership that we Change our World!
Photo By HikingArtist.com I recently completed reading the book “Obliquity” by John Kay, which provides an important perspective on vision, goal setting, strategy and decision making. Obliquity is the idea the complex goals are often best achieved indirectly. For example, one of the central ideas in the book is that individuals and companies succeed when [...]
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Photo by Anderaz Don Dodge, a Developer Advocate at Google whose jb it is to help developers build new applications on Google platforms and technologies, wrote an interesting post “How Google sets goals and measures success” discussing how Google goes about goal setting. Don describes the central philosophy to Google’s approach to goal setting is [...]
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Photo by kenteegardin The article “For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big” from the NY Times discusses the work of the best selling business author Jim Collins. Given the popularity of Jim Collins the article discussed how he allocates his time, which is as follows: “… in a corner of the white board [...]
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Photo by Anderaz “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” – Abraham Lincoln “Ready, aim … fail” by Drake Bennett discusses research that found goals which are incorrectly set can have negative consequences. Goal-setting drives success and without clear goals we are for the most part unfocused and undisciplined. “It is a given in American [...]
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Leaders set goals that inspire and challenge. Goals energise people when they are well defined, provide meaning and give direction. Sadly leaders often set goals that are ambiguous, unrealistic and uninspiring, for example “providing a superior return to shareholders”. So how do leaders go about defining a worthwhile goal? In the book “A Bias for [...]
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