How Will You Lead Today?

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Kevin Kruse in Great Leaders Have No Rules offers 10 contrarian principles to stimulate our thinking. I‘d like to share them with you to stimulate your thinking:

  • Close Your Open Door- to foster autonomy and empowerment of your team (and yourself!)
  • Shutoff Your Smartphone – to foster focus of workers and safety
  • Have No Rules – to shift from enforcement to values & guardrails that promotes accountability
  • Be Likable, Not Liked – to create separation for tough decisions and candid feedback
  • Lead with Love – (as Alan Mulally notes) it creates engagement with trust and loyalty
  • Crowd Your Calendar – every minute wasted means you’re not coaching people or getting work done!
  • Play Favorites – to leverage their strengths and encourage their retention.
  • Reveal Everything – enables team members to move fast, adapt to change and make their decisions
  • Show weakness – this contributes to a culture of psychological safety & trust, and creates innovation
  • Leadership is Not a Choice – reminds yourself that there are no time-outs in being a lead

What do you think? Share with us the one that most stimulated you to make a change today.