Leaders come across many obstacles when trying to implement change. Here, David gives advice for working with people who push back. One of the questions I get pretty regularly is “how do you handle blockers or people who are opposed to the culture that you want to build?” Well. You want to decide, is this...
Intent-Based Leaders show new employees support. Here, David suggests questions to ask on the first day. I got a question the other day from a keynote presentation that I’d never seen before and loved it. It was “What would be the first question you would ask a new employee?” So – first of all –...
Leaders give everyone an opportunity to do blue work, make decisions and contribute. Here’s David in Switzerland with more. I’m at this gondola stop, called Schrekfeld and it’s above the Swiss town of Grindelwald. And one of the things that they have here in summertime are these mountain go karts. And you can take the...
Praise is part of the manipulative strategy of bosses. Leaders dealing with adults observe not evaluate, and prize not praise. Here, David explains the difference and why it matters. Hey, we put out a post recently where we talked about praise being a manipulation, a manipulative tool that bosses use to control people and to...
Leaders encourage people to follow the organization’s values and principles rather than a particular person. This mitigates favoritism and helps create an organization aligned to its principles and values rather than personalities. How is it in your organization? Hey, I’m here at Heidelberg Castle, which is mostly a ruin, but this one building was reconstructed....
Taking risks on people helps modify their behavior to be more risk-embracing. Watch as David explains. Hey, I’m in State College, Pennsylvania. Just come down this trail off of Mt. Nittany and it lets me talk about taking risk. I hear leaders often sort of bemoan, “Oh, I wish my people were more risk-embracing and...
In 1995, Edward Deci published his book entitled Why We Do What We Do. It outlines his Self-Determination Theory and discusses extrinsic and intrinsic motivation with scientific research to support the theory. It’s a great read and helps explain why Intent-Based Leadership works. We recommend reading it to learn more. I recently read this book, Why...
Fundamentally, humans will respond more consistently to positive, immediate, and certain recognition for behavior and ultimately continue that behavior. The circumstances leading up to the behavior are not as important as the consequence of the behavior. Focus on immediate recognition for best results. Today I’m going to talk about the ABCs of human behavior. And...
