Business
3 Mistakes That Stymie Corporate Purpose Initiatives (via Harvard Business Review)
- A lack of clear metrics
- Failure to infuse purpose into the sales function
- Missing the opportunity to activate purpose in your employees
Leadership
How to Develop Your Leadership Style (via Harvard Business Review)
This article has a detailed list of two styles of leadership — powerful and attractive — covering status, non-verbal style, and verbal style. What this article provides is a concrete set of attributes (e.g., empathetic responses, serious expressions, relaxed pronunciation) you can recognize and develop, ideally creating a blended style, or one that suits the occasion.
Managing an Underperformer Who Thinks They’re Doing Great (via Harvard Business Review)
- “Whatever the cause, if leaders fail to address the situation, the lagging employee’s work will not improve, and the organization will lose the value of a team member who could thrive if given the proper support.”
- Be clear about expectations
- Provide employees with resources and support
- Determine whether you’re willing to continue investing in the individual
- Assess whether they’ll accept help
- Target praise carefully
Compassionate Leadership Is Necessary — but Not Sufficient (via Harvard Business Review)
This is basically Radical Candor but with different language.
Productivity
The Pandemic Is Widening a Corporate Productivity Gap (via Harvard Business Review)
- The best companies have minimized wasted time and kept employees focused; the rest have not.
- The best have capitalized on changing work patterns to access difference-making talent.
- The best have found ways to engage and inspire their employees.
Software
This week’s book club meeting discussed the Big O of various types of “everyday” code examples. Then we moved on to the hash table data structure.