Leadership

Planted 02021-06-24

We’re all leading all the time, well or poorly.

Leadership here refers to team leadership, in contrast to the wider marketing leadership.

Articles

• Notes from Heroic Leadership
• The Irreducible Components of Leadership
• Solitude and Leadership
• Managing a remote team
• Business Challenges
• Enrollment
• Leading Your First Marketing Team
• Leaders cannot see what’s right in front of them (the best ones admit it)
• Being Glue
• Be a Great Product Leader
• Leading without authority: Model, document, and share
• I See You
• Doist: Deep Work
• Shields Down
• Bad engineering managers think leadership is about power, good managers think leadership is about competently serving their team
• By design
• Share an anonymous feedback form for yourself
• Clear ownership and decision making with DRI
• On project management
• Binstack: Making a maximal multi-dimensional decision
• Focus on tradeoffs
• Project management: Fluffy & Ambiguous
• Reality distortion field
• Promise me that whenever you’re scared to ask something, you’ll ask
• Lara Hogan: Resources for navigating complex leadership work
• Do you need a Strong Leader?
• Typical tactics for influencing leaders at different levels
• StaySassy: Culture Viruses
• Underpants gnomes, Outcomes, and Intermittent Reinforcement
• Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary Email
• The real competition is the water
• Excuse me, is there a problem?

Videos

• [17:48] Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action
• [42:08] Simon Sinek: at the April 2012 CreativeMornings/NewYork
• [2:53] Derek Sivers: How to start a movement
• [34:26] Paul O’Neill: The Irreducible Components of Leadership

A Land & Expand Reading Program

• 2008 Seth Godin: Tribes
• 2009 Chris Lowney: Heroic Leadership
• 2014 Erin Meyer: The Culture Map
• 2015 Yuval Noah Harari: Sapiens
• 2016 Michael Bungay Stanier: The Coaching Habit

Other books

• Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)
• Peter Drucker: The Effective Executive (1966)
• Stephen Covey: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (1989)
• Jim Collins: Built to Last (1994)
• Richard W.Hamming: The Art of Doing Science and Engineering (1997)
• John C. Maxwell: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (1998)
• Arbinger Institute: Leadership and Self Deception (2000)
• Jim Collins: Good to Great (2001)
• Patrick Lencioni: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (2002)
• Simon Sinek: Start With Why (2009)
• Daniel H. Pink: Drive (2009)
• John C. Maxwell: The 5 Levels of Leadership (2011)
• Army Doctrine Publications 6-22: Army Leadership and The Profession (2012)
• Susan Cain: Quiet (2012)
• Adam Grant: Give and Take (2013)
• Simon Sinek: Leaders Eat Last (2014)
• Ben Horowitz: The Hard Thing About Hard Things (2014)
• Jocko Willink and Leif Babin: Extreme Ownership (2015)
• Daniel Coyle: The Culture Code (2017)
• Kim Scott: Radical Candor (2017)
• Simon Sinek: The Infinite Game (2018)
• Brené Brown: Dare to Lead (2018)
• Julie Zhuo: The Making of a Manager (2019)