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Leadership Nudge® 395 – Prize, Don’t Praise

August 10, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

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...

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Leadership Nudge® 394 – The Flow of Information Matters

August 3, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Top-down organizations make it difficult for information to flow from the bottom up. Here’s Peter, in Iceland, with more. Look at these sensational waterfalls here in Gullfoss, in Iceland. It’s just absolutely amazing and a stunning amount of water, which is cascading down just day in and day out. Of course, your organization’s information can...

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Leadership Nudge® 393 – Level 2, Give Information

July 27, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Present information for the purpose of eventually making a decision. Here’s David, in London, with an example. I’m here in the busy Baker Street Station and London tube, and this is the iconic London tube map. Now level two on the Ladder of Leadership is description – what you see. But there’s often nuances to...

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Leadership Nudge® 392 – Why Intent is Better Than Permission

July 20, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Permission-based organizations are designed to stop action. Intent-based organizations are designed with a bias for action. Here’s David in Iceland with an example. Hey, so talking about the perils of a permission-based environment. Just got off this cruise ship here in Reykjavik, Iceland and a total disaster. First of all, this is the taxi line....

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Leadership Nudge® 391 – Good Leaders Go Against Their Instincts

July 13, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Leaders must work against natural human tendencies to build more empowering organizations. Here’s David at, Clava Cairns, with more. I’m here at a place called Clava Cairns. It’s an ancient 4000 year-old burial site near Inverness (Scotland). And by the way, over here, this is the Highlander stone (Oops! He means Outlander stone), if you’ve...

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Leadership Nudge® 390 – Give information, not instruction

June 15, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Leaders give information, not instructions, so people with control can make better decisions based on that information. Here’s David with an example. Professionals pass information. Amateurs give instructions. When I see a couple of people trying to park a car, or some volunteer is going to help you park your car, it was always they’re...

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Leadership Nudge® 389 – Align Activity to Control

June 8, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Leaders focus their energy on things within their control. Here’s David with some examples. Hey, here’s the formula for having a happy life and getting what you want. It’s aligning where you spend your energy to the things that are within your control. For example, out here, people spend a lot of energy on things...

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Leadership Nudge® 388 – How much authority to push to information?

June 1, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

A leader’s job is to structure the organization so that it creates the right conversations, thus pushing authority to information. Here, David discusses what it sounds like when a leader manages information instead. So I got a question. At what point is pushing down authority to information become the leader absolving themselves of responsibility. It...

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Leadership Nudge® 387 – An Example of Redwork and Bluework

May 25, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Leaders use bluework to keep projects moving in the right direction. The bluework will put the project pieces in logical order so the redwork can be done more effectively. Here’s David with an example. I live in Florida. And I’m here at a friend’s yard who has a big deficiency because they have no swimming...

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Leadership Nudge® 386 – The Learning Vector

May 18, 2022by Sandy Wilmer

Activating the learning vector will destress performance anxiety. Here’s David with insight about how this worked during a big inspection on the Santa Fe. Before major inspections, I would get super nervous. I felt like there was a lot riding on it. And I had this view of this big performance vector. And that was...

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