Happy New Year!! I hope you enjoyed a break over the holiday season. I know that I did.
As
I thought about the newsletters for the upcoming year and thought about
you, I concluded that helping you take your leadership abilities to the
next level might add a great deal of value to your life both personally
and professionally.
As
we start the New Year, many people reflect upon the past. Some realize
that the last year may have been much like Bill Murray experienced in
the movie "Groundhog Day". Many folks realize that there hasn't been
much difference from one year to the next.
Well,
if this is you, I'd like to help you change all that. Ok, even if it
isn't you, I know that you will find value from this.
In Jim Collins' book, Good to Great (c)
2001, he talks about the difference between Level 5 leaders who create
great companies and teams and Level 4 leaders who create good companies
and teams. Mr. Collins lists a number of traits but when you look at
it, I believe it boils down to:
- Level 4 leaders focus on the what and how (extrinsic)
- Level 5 leaders focus on the why and who (intrinsic)
In Daniel Pink's book, Drive,
he talks about using extrinsic rewards for motivation and why the
carrot and stick approach no longer works. Oh, sure it did work in the
industrial age when workers were needed primarily for their hands and
feet. However, in the information age, workers are needed for their
brains and minds. Brains and minds aren't only fed with extrinsic
rewards. Mr. Pink give us the M.A.P. for intrinsic motivation: mastery,
autonomy and purpose.
In the book, Multipliers,
Liz Wiseman and Greg Mckeown discuss how the best leaders are able to
make everyone around them smarter by intrinsically valuing the people
they lead.
Over
the last 5 years, my coaching practice has focused exclusively on
teaching leaders these "latest discoveries" and taken many clients to
the next level of leadership in their businesses, careers, and also
their personal lives.
