Diligence JonesTo folks who are familiar with EOS:
If you know of a support group for Integrators, lemme know.
Reigning in and keeping a Visionary on track is making me crave a morning cocktail.
It's really interesting how leadership teams crave but also avoid discipline.
Maybe it's my personal um...Disciplinarian mode, but gotdangit. Remember the VTO!!
We have a plan!
We only pivot when external conditions shift, threatening the plan!
We don't pivot because you came back from vacation and got stressed out.
It's not like I don't understand anxiety and fear. Fear of failure, laying off staff, cutting programs. That's part of the day to day of being a nonprofit leader.
We had a major staffing shift happen. I'm not going to freak out. I see this as an opportunity. To realign, tag some younger untapped folks in, make good on a program promise, reposition ourselves a little -- and dig in to our VTO.
Not panic! Believe in the plan!
I need visionary leaders to trust the process and their teams a little more.
Dave Alvarado@DeliaChristina ah yes, our good friend Vibeleading.
May Likes Toronto@dave @DeliaChristina Accountability is for the worker class.
Scott Francis@DeliaChristina @mayintoronto pivot based on leadership anxiety when conditions haven't materially changed shows lack of trust in the team to deliver, and teams pick up on that very quickly
Paul_IPv6i used to call this CEO magazine syndrome.
the CEO/chief-something would fly somewhere and see some "brilliant and revolutionary strategy" in the CEO magazine on the plane. they'd come back all spun up on this strategy shift, usually without thinking about if it's really worth the pain and pivot.
i also sometimes called this Chief Lemming Officer syndrome in private.
Susan Calvin@DeliaChristina having been the Visionary, you have my sympathy :)
j robinson ☕️ &🍸