Monday Morning Leadership – book by David Cottrell - blog by Karl Janowski
Here are some of the main ideas I picked up from the book:
People quit people before they quit companies.
Accept full responsibility for the team
Leadership requires different decisions than management
Keep the main thing, the main thing…. What is the main purpose of the team?
A leader's main purpose is to eliminate confusion.
Never depend on someone’s perception to match your expectation.
Employees
Employees fall into 3 categories: superstar, middle star, and falling star.
The minimal level of acceptable performance should be at the bottom of the falling stars because you still have to accept their work. Reward superstars, coach middle, and work with falling stars.
Don’t lump them all together.
Do right rule – Do right even when no one is watching.
“To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice” Confucius
Greatest asset to a team – having the right people
Greatest liability – having the wrong people
Hire easy and manage tough, or hire tough and manage easy
Time Management
Pareto Principle – 80% of your results come from 20% of your activities
Touch a paper only once. Do something with it.
Plan time to plan.
Leadership
The scorecard of leadership is the results of the team, not what you do.
You need your team more than your team needs you.
Everyone has a bucket of motivation and dipper to remove motivation from other buckets. As a leader you need to keep the buckets full. The more you fill the more your bucket is filled.
Your comfort zone is a forceful enemy. Defeat it.
3 Ways to learn: read, listen, teach