Peter Thiel said it best in Zero to One: dozens of people on the board of directors means no effective oversight; it merely provides cover for whatever micro-dictator runs the organization. #CorporateCulture#BoardOfDirectors#CorporateGovernance#Leadership#ZeroToOne#PeterThiel
Heuristics gone haywire: a common mental shortcut is to equate "natural" with "good" or "desirable". But ignorance is all-natural. So is syphilis. #Shortcut#Fallacious#Heuristics#MentalFloss
When a board of directors adds an outsider member, is it because the board values their diverse opinions? To keep the outsider around as an ornament? Or to blame them when things go wrong? #AllOfTheAbove#UlteriorMotives#BoardOfDirectors#CorporateCulture#Leadership
Even if your board of directors contains smart, accomplished, and motivated experts, the board will succumb to corporate cancer if it grows too large: www.adventuresinleadership.land/p/committees...#CorporateCulture#BoardOfDirectors#CorporateGovernance#CorporateOversight#Leadership
Committees, councils, and governing boards often begin life full of promise, but end life ignominiously.
Job Interviews are also like first dates. Each side evaluates the other for red flags and decides whether to enter an exclusive relationship.
Job interviews are like animal courtship rituals. One side does a little dance, squawks a little song, and shakes a few tail feathers to show off how mate-worthy (hirable) they are. Other side selects the best performance. #Interviews#Hiring#Embellish#FakeItTilYouMakeIt
You want to hire an underwater basket weaver who looks great on paper. Did they get 20 years of experience, or one year of experience 20 times? www.adventuresinleadership.land/p/5-tips-for...#HiringTough#Resume#FakingIt#Recruitment#HiringAlert#LiarLiarPantsOnFire#ResumeFraud
Five tips for first time managers on what NOT to do
A sure-fire way to end up in the Career Swamp is to become stagnant. Learn nothing; improve nothing; plan nothing; risk nothing; be nothing. www.adventuresinleadership.land/p/leadership...#CareerDevelopment#CareerGrowth#Careers#AvoidingFailure
A trick for having Difficult Conversations™: turn the confrontation (me vs. you) into a rescue mission (us vs. common enemy): www.adventuresinleadership.land/p/difficult-...#Productivity#Leadership#Management#Empathy#Conscientious#DifficultConversations#TimeManagement
Stop difficult conversations from degenerating into confrontations that destroy morale! Part 3/3
Are smart people more resistant to self-deception? Or are they better than average at creating false certainties? www.adventuresinleadership.land/p/how2resist...#SelfDeception#ConfirmationBias#LeadershipTraps#OverConfidence#Epistemology#EpistemicArrogance#Hubris#GoodIntentions
Psychological gremlins push us toward following the crowd. Here’s how to fight back.