Intent: Get tips, strategies, practices, and actionable ideas I can leverage for GST

Actions

• State the problem
• Quality instead of quantity of decisions is key
• Ask for help, offer help
• Score Card: have an objective for the year and monthyl score yourself in 8 areas (quality of life)
• Generate ideas and experiment
• Growing the new and exciting

Questions

• What specific actions will I take as a result of this module? (investments to make, experiments to try, tech to investigate, team members to hire, companies to start, assets to sell)
• What is next? What is new? How do I adapt?
• What is going to disrupt me / this industry? How do I think about how to incorporate that into my company in new ways?
• What are the new business models?
• Ambidextrous Leadership: What are the skillsets I have to combine to operate in exponential times?
• How do I formulate a good strategic plan? How do I hold myself accountable?
• What can we do to increase quality?

Mindsets

• VC Mindset: Place a lot of bets and be ready when change shows up. Listening closely for early signal emerging.
• Ambiguity: get used to living in the in-between, the world of constant change, work with people who can figure it out and don't need much instruction.

Words

Emergence: When individual agents act in a mass according to simple rules and out the other end comes a highly complex structure you couldn't have planned for and with it a whole new set of behaviors

Leader:

• You provide the vision and let the teams figure it out
• You cannot delegate culture, you are the culuture-bearer. Employees want to see & hear & see it, you talk it and walk it all the time.
• Give team ways of working, what are your ways of working?
• Find people and coach and encourage them to do it faster & better, to learn, fail, keep going.
• Strategy & Responsible for execution
• Grounded in certain core values (team, integrity) that are a framework and guiding compass to understand behaviorally what they acn and can't do, what they should and shouldn't do amoungst their teams.

Mission Orientation: M.O., motus operndi, relentless focus on the outcome (What is the outcome?)

Fast Works: Do it faster, better, learn, fail, keep going.

Feedback Loops: Give feedback, take feedback, actually use it. Which feedback is relevant? How do I know that? Tell me one thing you think I don't want to hear? What am I going to do about it?

Metrics That Matter: Which metrics tell you you are going in the right direction?

Quotes

"When big change happens we look back and see it was already there."

Business Org

• open, candor, radical feedback, transparency, empowering individuals
• organize around information flow (ditch hierarchy, no room for bureaucracy)
• How do we get around the illusion that we actually control others and instead get them to focus on 'What's the outcome'? (Mission Orientation)
• Change agents: bring about change in an organization, the few leverage people
• culture amplifiers: amplify culture
• What drives people: 1. purpose fuels passion, gives people energy to deliver and transform. Believe they can unlock their potential they didn't know they had.
• Who? They type of person who is going to take the cause as their own and drive it.
• As a coach/leader/manager, what are the things I really liked that others did? (write it down, take it to heart)
• Ways of working:
  • we are all ambassadors of the team no matter where we go
  • issues within the team should be resolved within the team
  • Decisions supported once made. No second guessing decisions. Call each other on it. We are now in pure execution mode. (We can bring it back to discussion only if we think the decision is not working)
  • Proactive problem management (go to the source, directly to the source) Go to the person first.
  • Assume noble intent. Mindset.
• How do you get people excited to grab power and go for it?

Peronal

• How do I recharge and renew?
  • Sleep, healthy expectations, firm decision -What helps you perfom at your best?
• Yin & Yang: Yin you go out an conquer, yang you go in and recharge
• What are my challenges?
• Declare an end of the day then have a 30 minute ritual
• Take micro steps and start with gratitude

Info

• arriana huffington: [email protected]