The other day I was reviewing the blog’s analytics using W3Counter stats. While I was scrolling through the sources in which direct traffic to this site, I stumbled upon the site NOOP. After visiting the site I learn that NOOP is contributed to by a gentleman named Jurgen Appelo, a Business Unit Manager at Sociotoco and a CIO at ISM eCompany. Jurgen is more commonly known as a writer, speaker, developer, entrepreneur, manager, blogger, reader, dreamer, leader, freethinker, and… “The Dutch Guy”. He recently put together a list of the best management and leadership blogs in the world. While I scrolled down this list I see some very familiar names. Names that are of industry leaders that are compiled of men and women from all over the world. After scrolling through most of the list, I almost choked on my lunch when I saw my name along with this blog listed towards the bottom! Never in a million years did I ever think I would be surrounded by so many great leaders and wonderful people. It is an absolute privilege and honor to be on this list!
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A Recent Feedback Lesson
As part of a workshop, fifteen people who regularly observe my work were asked to give an assessment of how I was doing. After receiving both quantitative data and some verbatim comments on my strengths and areas of improvement, this is what I found:
It is hard to get good feedback. The default position in our cultures is: fear. Fear of honest feedback and probably even more fear of giving it. Fear of retribution. Fear of hurting someone’s feelings. Face it; authorities didn’t used to ask for feedback. Parents didn’t want to hear it. Siblings sure as heck didn’t. Teachers hardly did. There just aren’t a lot of people who model seeking and giving constructive feedback. So, in our normal lives at work, people who could be helping us understand how to help them be more effective, and how to lead in ways that work, just don’t tell us.
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