Seeing the future… only by humans.
Leadership is about vision and only people can have a vision of the future, not things or concepts. It makes the notion of [THING]-led business an oxymoron. Because, how could a thing decide? A couple days ago there was a question about if business could be led by —Sales, Growth, Innovation, etc. If it could be led by things. Here’s what friend of the list and Data Scientist & AI and Analytics Specialist, Genevieve Hayes (do go check her emails out) said and I couldn’t put it better [shared…
Future and present (addendum)
Friend of the list and founder of Truly Human Hospitality replied to the Future and Present daily with this reel where she talks about managing and leading. Loving her POV, so here it is for you. 🙂
A question for you
Here’s a question for you: If leading is a choice, can things and businesses be… Product-led? Sales-led? Marketing-led? Growth-led? Innovation-led? Experience-led? I’m curious about what you think. 🙂
Future and present
“Leaders are in charge of the future, and managers are in charge of the present.” Blair Enns Friend of the list, James Turner came up with this email about Managers vs. Leaders, taking on points about how you can focus on the present and the future of your business. Under this view of future v present, you can also find out that one goes in the direction of innovation (being wasteful per definition), looking for the new; and the other, towards efficiency-seeking (the best use of resources) to…
Doing it the wrong way
“If you’re efficient, you’re doing it the wrong way.” Interview to Jerry Seinfeld – Harvard Business Review Following yesterday’s email about helping your client with what they want, not what they need, this last part needed some closure (or opening). When you’re looking for new ways, different approaches, how to break from what is, to devise, see and design new futures, you’ll be wasteful. That’s just reality. You can’t make something that’ll work out at the first try (well, in most of the…
Compressed experience
That’s how Andrew Skotzko, from Product Leadership Daily, defines intuition. ???? When thinking of it, here’s a question that comes to mind: How can you get good at trusting your intuition? Well, by training it. It can come in various shapes and forms: Opening yourself to new experiences and environments. Seeing the patterns that appear in your practice. Making the wrong decisions in a controlled environment. Experimenting different ways to get your goals. That’s how you get to see pathways and…
The age of A.Y.
Just like artificial intelligence is not really intelligence, it’s a way of pattern recollection —intelligence needs the capacity to make decisions based on those pattern-recollections, -filtering and -recognition. We’re also in the age of A.Y. The Artificial You. Where, to succeed in a market, you treat yourself as a product. Taking approaches that work for things, to apply on people. Seeing what sticks and molding this AY into something that would be a fit. A construct (an artificial one)…
What about testimonials?
Friend of the list Genevieve Hayes came back with a question after yesterday’s email on one thing you don’t need to build your authority: a personal brand. (shared with permission) What about testimonials? I know that, ideally, it would be great to have quotes from dozens of people who love your work but that’s not always possible early on. Furthermore, I’ve always suspected some of the testimonials on some websites aren’t actually real. How important do you think testimonials are in building…
What you don’t need
Few things you don’t need to build authority in your space. A personal brand . . . … Yeah. That’s it. You don’t need that to build your authority or reputation.
Elevating others
Yesterday’s email took these points on Womack’s conception of leadership: Leadership equals heroic leadership. Leadership equals authority. Leadership is about convincing others. Here’s why this view can’t be sustainable. Leadership equals heroic leadership. It’s there to save the day / put the fires out. Heroes don’t scale. So at the moment there’s no more “heroic leader”, things go down south. Quickly. Leadership equals authority. They’re both independent from each other.You can have…
