If you have ever worked at a major corporation, you certainly have dealt with an expense policy for the company. Expense policies are typically designed to protect the firm from financial risk. The firm decides what risk they are willing to tolerate and applies boundary conditions for how company money can be spent.
I have started to take an interest in systems thinking and I have heard the following quote (or something like it) repeated many times.
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Seven months ago, I wrote about compounding the right things, I want to build on the idea as it relates exponential growth.
There are small practices or habits, that when performed with consistency, will build and compound over time. Find the right set of practices and growth becomes exponential.
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I love to teach and recently had the opportunity to visit and facilitate a college course at Wichita State University. The course was hosted by the Kansas Leadership Center. The curriculum is based on principles of Adaptive Leadership from Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky.
The definition of leadership shared in the course is:
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Junior high was a dark time for me in my life. I was young, didn’t feel confident in who I was, and was desperate to fit in and feel like I had friends. I felt depressed. Who I thought I should be was wildly different than what was being taught in my home. I was confused and frustrated.
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A few days ago I watched my daughter as she attempted to draw a picture of a unicorn. After a few pencil lines she would crumple the paper and start over on a new sheet of paper. I soon learned she wanted the picture of her unicorn to be perfect and if it wasn’t perfect she didn’t want to keep it.
(more…)At work I look after a program designed to help senior leaders progress at Microsoft. COVID-19 introduced interesting challenges to our program, as it was originally designed to be in person. In one case, a key experience of the program, we did not convert to virtual because we felt the impact in person could never be matched virtually.
Things changed and we decided to convert the experience. My first thought was, there is no room for failure with this audience – we must succeed. This is one of the core experiences leaders have at Microsoft and there is no room for failure at this level.
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I teach and invite people to act. Proud husband, father and amateur pizzaiolo