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Field Notes
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Keeping Yourself Top of Mind.
Smart leaders know the power of a simple reminder. Keeping yourself top of mind with those who can reward you with assignments, contracts, invitations, and projects sometimes makes all the difference.
Perhaps attempting the six-page memo and silent reading on one critical issue would prove a valuable experiment. But whatever process leaders embrace for more rigorous and objective debate, the key is to find a path toward better decisions. The quality of decisions at any organization most defines its long-term success. Would you care to read about that in silence and then discuss it?
Communicating like an expert, rather than as a leader, can undermine clarity, credibility, and influence in high-level meetings and discussions.
Leaders who expect a lot of their team members are typically rewarded with superior results. Research consistently confirms that what leaders expect from team members has a tremendous influence on the outcomes they achieve.
Being a good-hearted leader is not enough.
Reciprocity usually occurs with each act of a leader’s kindness, but does not become pervasive across the team until other team members join in without being asked.
Overcollaboration is a serious issue and manifests itself in slow and ineffective decision-making and an endless stream of unproductive meetings.