Tag: Being Intentional

Leadership

First Principles Based Leadership Requires First Order Learning

Premise I read this post by John Hunter, which was originally published in 2014 but is still very relevant. In this blog, he shares one key insight from the work of Deming – managing (or leading) can’t be taught (prescriptive) and needs to be learnt (experiential). First Order Learning Vs Second Order Learning One needs to learn to lead by leading and to manage by managing. We can learn from our own experience (first order learning) or from the experience of those who have gone before us (second order learning). When we learn from our own experience, we start to […]

Leadership

How to find Opportunities to Unlock Significant Performance

Premise One of the things that every leader is expected to do is to find ways to drive significant value from their teams. Good leaders are always trying to look for opportunities that can unlock significant value creation. If you know me at all, you know that I am a big fan of the work done by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, the creator of the “Theory of Constraints“. He had this belief that the biggest constraint that any business faces is Management attention. If we rephrase this, the biggest constraint that any organisation faces is the paucity of their leadership team’s […]

Ideas

The WWW Rule of Learning

Increasingly, I have a feeling of being overwhelmed and never in control of the time I spend on the internet. I seem to spend enormous amount of time surfing the net and not able to remember anything from the time I spent. So, I have decided to change my internet habits to see the impact that it creates. I strongly believe that if we want  to do a lot more (of something), we need to do a lot less (of something else). So, between today and 28th February, I am going to use the following rules while browsing the net (includes […]