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Field Notes
Our daily Field Notes email is just the kind of jumpstart you need. A fast read. Maybe less than a minute. Because sometimes it just takes one insight to change the trajectory of the day.
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Just like people, organizations sometimes lose their way. Because of poor leadership, organizations can drift toward mediocrity, underperformance, and dysfunction. To revive them, leaders need to reset the culture and establish a new way for team members to work together. Transforming a culture takes time and focus.
Are you an independent thinker? Here’s a simple test. If someone knows your age, leadership position, salary, political party, or zip code, can they predict your beliefs across a variety of personal, social, and organizational topics?
Whether a leader wants others to draw inferences about them or not, people interpret everything they do as evidence about who they really are. Their character, personality traits, values, and tendencies are revealed to others with every breath and action. Over time, people draw distinctive conclusions as to what makes a leader tick and who they are on the inside.
Contrary to what many team leaders believe, team member commitment is not binary. Team members aren’t “all in or out” as much as their commitment is relative. Understanding that commitment exists along a continuum is essential for creating more of it. When leaders engage in behaviors that move people along the ladder of commitment, they elevate the team’s focus on execution and performance.
Before we discuss the leadership behaviors that increase commitment in tomorrow’s Field Note, it is important to identify what kind of commitment leaders are aiming for. At its lowest level, commitment is really Compliance.
