Leaders are learners - LEADERSHIP MINTS

By Peter Jeff
The Leadership Mints Guy

Here’s an idea to broaden your strategic thinking. Reading time: 4:32

It seems absurd. A waste of time. An undermining of your authority as the CEO, the Chief Executive Officer.

Door of Opportunity Why block out an hour a week to meet privately -face-to-face-with ANYONE in your company? For up to 7 minutes. On any issue. At their request.

How can those open-ended, shot in-the-dark meetings with any employee — not your direct reports - be worthwhile?

Consider positioning these meetings as 7- minute Creative Business Building Discussions with you. Topics could range from new product ideas to new market initiatives and yes even to highly emotional personnel issues affecting the selection, grooming and growing of future leaders.

Sure you’d be opening your Open Door Policy so wide the complainers and disgruntled will likely game the system at first.

But the most effective leaders know that in opening themselves up so widely they also open the company up to new ideas that could generate new revenue streams for you to initially navigate. Continue reading “Opening Up Your Open Door” →

By Peter Jeff
The Leadership Mints Guy

Here’s an idea to increase your learning potential. Reading time: 3:17.

As a boy, Thomas Edison once sat on a geese eggs for hours to learn for himself how eggs are hatched. Bizarre? Peter the Great wore an engraved seal when he became the first Russian czar to tour Europe on a learning expedition. The seal read: “I am a pupil and need to be taught.” Weird?

Not really. Leaders are learners.

Leaders embrace William Ward’s contention that “curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” The most effective leaders continue to learn and earn their Ph.D – their Personally Harbored Discipline. And “Discipline” is a key leadership talent. The word –Discipline-stems from the Latin word for learning and learners (Disciples). Continue reading “Continuous Learning: Leaders Take It Personally” →