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Leadership

The Ladder of Problem-Solving Expertise

Have you ever attended a meeting that was called to solve a problem and exited the meeting feeling that the meeting was a catastrophic waste of everyone’s time. You’re not alone. Most of us have been in that room. And most of us, if we’re honest, have also led that room. Here’s what I’ve come to believe after years of working with leaders and teams: the quality of a problem-solving meeting is not primarily a function of the people in the room. It’s a function of the level at which the leader chooses to operate. In my experience, when done […]

Leadership

How To Create The Conditions For Good Things To Happen

In a recent post, Mike Shipulski shared some conditions for good things to happen. You can read the entire post here. One of the things that he talks about is to make it easier to do the right things. I have explored this concept earlier in this blog post where I talk about how convenience trumps everything else. There is another aspect of this very same phenomenon that we can use as leaders – making the wrong things difficult to do. Every leader worth their salt knows the areas where the potential for mistakes in any given process is the […]