Comments on: Leadership Caffeine for the Week of March 22, 2009 http://artpetty.com/2009/03/22/leadership-caffeine-for-the-week-of-march-22-2009/ Leadership, Management and Professional Development Mon, 21 May 2012 11:19:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://artpetty.com/2009/03/22/leadership-caffeine-for-the-week-of-march-22-2009/#comment-1573 Dr. Jim Anderson Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:28:09 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=1352#comment-1573 Art: don't forget that if all this great leadership stuff actually motivates your team to become innovative and they end up solving the problem, then you need to make sure that you take the time and celebrate the success. Just a quick handshake or an "atta boy" won't do it - make sure that everyone shares in the joy of a job well done. - Dr. Jim Anderson <a href="http://www.TheAccidentalPM.com/" title="The Accidental Product Manager Blog" rel="nofollow">The Accidental PM Blog</a> "Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager" Art: don’t forget that if all this great leadership stuff actually motivates your team to become innovative and they end up solving the problem, then you need to make sure that you take the time and celebrate the success. Just a quick handshake or an “atta boy” won’t do it – make sure that everyone shares in the joy of a job well done.

- Dr. Jim Anderson
The Accidental PM Blog
“Home Of The Billion Dollar Product Manager”

]]> By: John Larrison http://artpetty.com/2009/03/22/leadership-caffeine-for-the-week-of-march-22-2009/#comment-1564 John Larrison Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:39:16 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=1352#comment-1564 Thanks for describing this out so well, Another important ingredient to innovation is time. If we are always swimming head down against a continual flow of work we tend to just keeping doing what we have always done. We need to make time to lift our head occasionally so we can see where we are headed and think about other ways to add value or work smarter. While you can schedule time to think about innovation I don't believes our minds really work best that way. Maybe some people can just throw a switch and go from processing a deluge of tasks to thinking about innovation but I'm not like that. My innovative Ideas usually come when I can quiet my mind a bit, bicycling, walking, driving, reading, listening to music or sitting watching nature work for me. This could be why I'm not a big fan of brainstorming as an initial step in trying to innovate. It can assist in priming the pump but I don't feel the quality of ideas are as good because people tend to focus on a few initial concepts that get brought up and not the underlying issue. I prefer to ask people to think about ways to innovate on their own before we brainstorm. Then we came together list the ideas discuss their merits ideas and build upon the best ones. The important thing in this approach is that everyone knows they don't have to have a fully developed solution before sharing it with the group and that there are no bad ideas. The collaboration around the initial concepts usually leads to a truly innovative solution. Thanks for describing this out so well, Another important ingredient to innovation is time. If we are always swimming head down against a continual flow of work we tend to just keeping doing what we have always done. We need to make time to lift our head occasionally so we can see where we are headed and think about other ways to add value or work smarter. While you can schedule time to think about innovation I don’t believes our minds really work best that way. Maybe some people can just throw a switch and go from processing a deluge of tasks to thinking about innovation but I’m not like that. My innovative Ideas usually come when I can quiet my mind a bit, bicycling, walking, driving, reading, listening to music or sitting watching nature work for me.
This could be why I’m not a big fan of brainstorming as an initial step in trying to innovate. It can assist in priming the pump but I don’t feel the quality of ideas are as good because people tend to focus on a few initial concepts that get brought up and not the underlying issue. I prefer to ask people to think about ways to innovate on their own before we brainstorm. Then we came together list the ideas discuss their merits ideas and build upon the best ones. The important thing in this approach is that everyone knows they don’t have to have a fully developed solution before sharing it with the group and that there are no bad ideas. The collaboration around the initial concepts usually leads to a truly innovative solution.

]]> By: Wally Bock http://artpetty.com/2009/03/22/leadership-caffeine-for-the-week-of-march-22-2009/#comment-1551 Wally Bock Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:16:05 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=1352#comment-1551 Those are important conditions. One behavior that's part of the environment you describe is that when people share an idea it isn't immediately shot down. People are naturally creative and they'll come up with good ideas and share them unless you demonstrate that you don't want to hear it. Those are important conditions. One behavior that’s part of the environment you describe is that when people share an idea it isn’t immediately shot down. People are naturally creative and they’ll come up with good ideas and share them unless you demonstrate that you don’t want to hear it.

]]> By: David Locke http://artpetty.com/2009/03/22/leadership-caffeine-for-the-week-of-march-22-2009/#comment-1548 David Locke Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:00:45 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=1352#comment-1548 High personal credibility enables shepard leadership. People follow you, because they see it is in their best interest. When credibility is lacking, they will see the leader, rather than their self interest. When credibility is lacking, they have to manage you as a risk. Instead of jumping and getting it done, they will hedge, they will wonder, they will give half, rather than a whole. They will migrate to the credible leader. High personal credibility enables shepard leadership. People follow you, because they see it is in their best interest. When credibility is lacking, they will see the leader, rather than their self interest. When credibility is lacking, they have to manage you as a risk. Instead of jumping and getting it done, they will hedge, they will wonder, they will give half, rather than a whole. They will migrate to the credible leader.

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