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On Leadership

Here are some summarized notes for some common aspects for leaders. This is targeted for entrepreneurs but does apply to anyone who want to be a good leader

Amy Cuddy - Be the best boss

  • To be an effective leader
  • Your Likeability, Trustworthiness wins over Strength, confidence, decisiveness (and other attributes)
  • Let your team know, why they should trust you?

  • Remember You don't get trust by default, you earn trust!

Susan Cain - How to lead introverts

  • You won't be able to lead introverts if you don't under who they are and what their needs are?
  • There is no one size fits all strategy when it comes to team members
  • Figure out the team, where each member complements each other and put them in a position to succeed

Mark Cuban - 3 essential rules for entrepreneurs

When you are a manager, you have to be able to kick your own ass before someone else does it for you - Adapted from a quote by Mark cuban

  • Selling is not convincing, but helping!
  • All entrepreneur's lies to themselves, That are doing good, everybody loves us, However You should ...
  • Be brutally honest with yourself
  • What do we do well?
  • What do we not do well?
  • What are the challenges?
  • How can we improve upon them?

Writing smart goals

  • Video
  • Write your stretch goal
  • Break it down into a plan
  • Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timing (SMART)
  • Specific: How am I going to do this?
  • Measurable: What would success look like
  • Achievable: Is this achievable, if not lets tone it down a bit
  • Realistic: How can we realistically achieve this
  • Timing: How soon do we need to do this?

Smart goals

How to give useful feedback

  • Kim Scott - How to give useful feedback
  • Think of feedback more as guidance
  • We want, Good stuff people do => Do more of it => Give praise
  • We want, Bad stuff people do => Stop doing it => Give criticism
  • Give guidance with a spirit of being Humble, helpful
  • You are trying to help the person solve/fix a problem
  • You want to give guidance immediately and in-person
  • Remember: Feedback is measured not at your mouth but at the other persons ear
    • You need to see how the other person is reacting to the feedback

    • You want to give praise in public and criticism in private

    • Praise is specific and sincere
    • Criticism is Kind and clear
    • Give praise/criticism about a persons behavior, You don't want to make it about their personality
    • Give a little criticism and lot of praise every single week

Adam Grant - The trick to successful brainstorming

  • See below images to understand problems with brainstorming and its solution

  • Ask people to write down their ideas separately in advance and then discuss

Brainstorming

Brainwriting

Kim Scott - Care personally. Challenge directly

  • 4 quadrants
  • Radical candor - Care personally + Challenge directly
    • Correct style ✅, Impromptu feedback delivered in person with compassion
    • Just say what you think
  • Obnoxious aggression - Challenge directly + Don't show that you care
    • You are just being a jerk
  • Ruinous empathy - Care personally + Don't challenge directly
    • Trying to be nice, but not help people improve
  • Manipulative insincerity - Don't care personally + Don't challenge directly
    • Political, passive aggressive, backstabbing behavior
  • Don't judge someone by their behaviors, but try to move more towards radical candor

Move to radical candor

Here is another related video by Kim