@MeghanCureton @boadams1 RT @k12lab: Did y'all see this? #DTK12chat http://t.co/p27VfNSLzr
"So here's a general rule of thumb that I believe in: When societies have strong institutions, the difference that one good leader can make is limited, but when you have weak institutions, then just one good leader can make or break that country."
"Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. That has always been true for pragmatic reasons: If companies were to operate at peak efficiency without what organizational scholars call “citizenship behavior,” tasks would have to be optimally assigned 100% of the time, projects could not take any unexpected turns, and no part of any project could go faster or slower than anticipated. But mutual helping is even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on creativity in often very complex projects. Beyond simple workload sharing, collaborative help comes to the fore—lending perspective, experience, and expertise that improve the quality and execution of ideas."
What are you pruning organizationally and programmatically so that things/people are their healthiest?
"The autonomy that many of us enjoy requires greater responsibility in making the deliberate decisions about how we choose to conduct ourselves in our work. What decision can you make today to bring greater dignity to yourself and your work? What does the first step of greater dignity in work look like for you?"
Curiosity
Craftsmanship
Humility
HT @TreyBoden
HT @CraigLambert
It’s well past time to begin imagining an organization of a radically different kind — one that takes a quantum leap beyond strategy, marketing, and finance into a novel galaxy of unexplored, untapped economic possibilities.
Here’s what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it. It’s a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge’s learning organization. It’s built not just to learn (and then do “business”) but, more deeply, to redraw the boundaries of prosperity, by doing meaningful stuff that matters the most.