Tactics for effective leadership.
Some approaches to combat leadership pitfalls:rR10
- Explicitly ask for arguments against your ideas. Creates the space for pushback that one may expect but not naturally receive.
- Make bad proposals, or incomplete ideas, to solicit their thoughts. Implicitly delegates solutioning to them and builds trust as they find their ideas affect change.
- Build relationships everywhere. Gives access to better context, space to bounce around ideas, and opportunity to act on hidden problems.
- Appreciate opposition to help de-risk future contributions from individual contributors.
- Servant leadership. Stay hidden during success, act as support.
- Roll out plans incrementally with previews and feedback gathering.
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Jade Rubick, “Everyone Lies to Leaders,” June 1, 2021, https://www.rubick.com/everyone-lies-to-leaders/. (See notes.)