Japanese workers call their executives “tea drinkers”I got some strong comments regarding my post that executives are boobs. I probably should have said “worthless drags on shareholder value who ought to be golden parachuted into a live volcano that resembles the eternal hell they deserve for being lazy good-for-nothings.” But let’s not quibble.
Let’s instead deal with what real executive work…
In late November, while talking to my old partner about how the Seven Decision Making Approaches (or “languages of achievement”) are relevant to his current work problems, I suddenly realised something startling. For several years, I have been selling myself as either Imaginist or Empiricist, but delivering Systemicist results. The disconnect has been startling. It cleanly explains many of…
Or at least the way that you are trying to succeed.
I talk a lot about work levels, and I spend a great deal of my time working with them. You can see a lot using that lens. But you can’t see everything. I was lucky enough to work with Warren Kinston, who has some incredible IP on expanding this. (Some of this was discussed at the 2007 GO Society conference in Toronto.)
Another piece of your…