How Leaders Can Be More Efficient and Effective
Last year, I was reading the dramatic account of a hard-charging executive who suffered a heart attack. The post was about the need for balance, but it was more than a wake-up call. What struck me about this post, however, was not the lessons he taught us from his painful experience, not the, “Oh, I hope this doesn’t happen to me” feeling we have when reading these posts, but the name of the hospital he went to. It was here in Dublin, Ohio!
That meant that one of the people who regularly shares my posts and vice versa lived in my town. Social media amazes me. A quickly dashed off email and the two of us found ourselves in Starbucks where I heard more about his compelling story. I’m still amazed at how Twitter and blogging create opportunities like this one.
Lead INSIDE the Box
Let me introduce you to Mike Figliuolo. Mike is the founder of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a leadership development firm. He is also the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. His latest book was just released and was co-written with Victor Prince, former COO of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and now a strategy consultant.
We recently got together to talk about this book, Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results.
Mike and Victor have built a powerful framework designed to help leaders be more efficient and more effective at the same time. It starts with the recognition that we, as leaders, are often overworked and not as effective as we could be.
- Where am I spending my time?
- With whom?
- Am I treating each person the same when different approaches would create better results?
If I understand the “box” and apply the techniques correctly, I can be more proactive, more thoughtful, and more impactful with my team members.
It starts by determining which box each of your team members currently occupy based on their performance and how you interact with them. How you then manage that person will focus on moving them to a higher performing box. You’ll be able to be more thoughtful about how you invest your time and get better performance as a result. Though we instinctively know this, when you apply a framework and are disciplined about how you invest your “leadership capital,” the results are infinitely better.
One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results
