Thursday 14th March 2013
Listen more than you talk
Why storytelling is important
Nurture followers
Be public
There is no movement without a first follower
Consider seeding 1st and 2nd followers
Journey from laptop to paper
Build loose connections and many of them
Need to develop and maintain a changeless core
Execute on the few things well that are important
Need to plan and process the routine to allow you to handle the unforeseen
Live below your means
Don’t place yourself worth in something that someone can take away from you
Importance of breaking bread
Art Hopkins
Work is the means to fulfill what else you are doing with your life
Equip others people to do their job
Fresh set of eyes can help
Cherish the moment
Learn to practice taking good ideas from anywhere you can find them. Do not suffer from not invented here syndrome. Rather go for proudly found elsewhere
Look for greatness in every failure
What is the name of the person who is accountable for getting this done?
Success goes to those who use all resources legitimately available to them
Hippo - Highest Paid Person Opinion
Focus on getting things DONE
Move from doing to get it DONE
Need to be cognoscent of your own bias/comfort levels
Leaders loose the right to state personal opinions as your team can take it as the organizations opinions
I need conflict management training
Burden of communication falls on the communicator not the recipient
Need to back fill
Jan Tomlinson
There is always something not getting gone
Improve
Recognition
Work environment
Better systems
Walking by and saying hi
Monthly lunch with Rich and Joel
What can I learn?
SFDC – deep dive into this until Q3
Oracle – enough to provide cover
Cognos – same
Website/Sharepoint/Solodev - good
Understand how people feel before coming up with plan
Leaders needs to own the plan, otherwise they will not be execute
Its about
People
Strategy
Process
Execution
Outsource what is not important to you personally
New hires must deliver on potential early
Learn lessons from mentors
Focus on things you are really getting paid to do?
Friday 15th March 2013
Delegate until it hurts
What crop am I cultivating?
Good at difficult situations
Relationship with the business
Developing people
Balance
Recruiters always say you need to stay technical
Leadership programs always say the opposite
You must always stay technically compotent
Speed dating concept worked well
Provide feedback on presentations to team
Calm down for team
Glen Salow
1) It the customer stupid, all decks need customer tie in
2) Better a horrible end than horrors without end
3) Better an hour early than a minute late
a. Schedule 25 minutes meetings
4) Put phone down and leave it down
5) Einstien “Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler”
6) Decompose problems
a. Into smaller similar problems until they are solvable and then re-compile
7) IT transparency involves providing advice
a. Undlerline the cost versus the value
8) Ask clarifying questions and DO NOT rush to answer?
9) Prinicpal based decision making
a. Allow insight into technical decisions even if you have limited technical knowledge into the platform
10) Try and learn something new everyday
11) Establish exit criteria before you start
IT should mirror how the company is structured
Single customer based = centralized
Mutli customer based = decentralized
Steve Job Stanford address
Try something scary
Don’t say negative stuff
June Drewry
Learn to say NO!
Aim for optimal not perfection
Influence power trumps position power
There is a never a time not to do the right thing
You can change anything if you change your attitude. DO NOT WALLOW.
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