48 Stories To Learn About Leadership Development

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1. The BANI World Is a New World That Has Replaced the World of VUCA

BANI Leadership: what skills will be important, what knowledge should be acquired and what illusions should be abandoned in the new post-VUCA BANI world?

2. 7 Leadership Issues Managers Face in 2022

In this story, we’ll be exploring 7 of the issues that may face business leaders in 2022 and how best they can manage them.

3. Ted Lasso’s Leadership Lessons Made Me a Successful Leader

Ted Lasso's leadership style is rarely seen in media.

What traits can we learn from Ted to make us successful leaders?

4. CTO That Doesn’t Write Code

In Quora, many ask whether someone might get to the CTO chair without writing code. Most of the answers are an absolute NO. However, as someone who has done exactly that, I feel compelled to tell you my career story. Hold tight, because this is going to be a long one.

5. How to Lose Employee Trust in 8 Easy Steps

Speak at length about the importance of a healthy work-life, but then send emails late in the night

6. What Is Fear-Based Leadership

Fear of not being included, fear of not knowing, fear of status, fear of failure, fear of unknowns, fear of criticism, fear of change, fear of being an imposter can cause a leader to act in undesirable ways. Leading from fear can create a toxic culture in which people play safe, avoid mistakes and lay low in effect creating an organisation that does not grow due to mediocre performance and unrealised potential.

7. 4 Ways to Develop a Growth Mindset and Become a Better Leader

A growth mindset is an approach to life that welcomes mistakes, while learning new skills. Great leaders prioritize developing a growth mindset every day.

8. What's The Most Important Skill for a Senior Developer?

I often get asked what I think is the most important skill for a software developer.

9. 5 Practices to Shift from Scarcity to Abundance Mindset

Thinking with a scarcity mindset or abundance mindset isn’t limited to work, it extends to how you approach everything—friends, family, and other relationships.

10. 8 Common Career Limiting Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

Career Limiting Mistakes to Avoid at All Costs

11. The 5 Cognitive Distortions Preventing You From Making Better Decisions

From an evolutionary standpoint, human beings developed cognitive distortions as a survival method.

12. Coping With Failure and the Key to Success

Many articles, books, podcasts, and videos these days convey the importance of failure in shaping our future.

13. Leading With Vulnerability Will Make You A Better Leader

We feel vulnerable. But instead of embracing vulnerability, accepting our fears, and leading with curiosity, we put on a shield of protection.

14. ‘Kill Your Darlings’ - Know When You Need to Pull the Proverbial Plug

Basing our decision on what’s going to happen in the future and not what investments have been made in the past by treating every decision as a new one is indeed very difficult. It’s not a clear, straightforward choice.

15. 3 Ways to Become a Better Technical Writing Manager

In this story, we analyze what makes up the role of a technical writing manager, how to improve your skills, and how to be a brilliant leader.

16. 21 Traits in which Great Leadership is Defined

Leadership qualities like integrity, humility, focus, confidence, transparency, inspiration, passion, accountability, vision, innovation, patience, authenticity, open-mindedness, decisiveness, affectionate, generosity, persistence and insightfulness are beautiful words that look good on pictures and posters that adorn the wall of offices.

17. Your Ignorance is Causing You to Fail as a Leader

The difference between leaders who push their teams to the ground and those who take teams to great heights isn’t knowledge, capability, or competence.

18. Every Leader Needs a Strategic Roadmap: Insights From Scott Klososky; Future Point of View

A strategic roadmap is a guide from your current state to your desired future state. It is a helpful tool to set up and every leader should have developed one.

19. A Path to Engineering Leadership: Perks, Lessons, and Food for Thought

In this article, Anton Shashuk, Delivery Manager at Innovecs, shares his own experience and path to engineering leadership.

20. Roles Of Support Are The New Normal

Are you being the best leader you can be? Is your leader effective? here are some useful tips on how to do better.

21. Leadership Lessons by Disney Chairman Robert Iger

Robert Iger, now Executive Chairman of The Walt Disney Company is the former CEO of Disney. During his 15 years as CEO of Disney and as President of ABC Television prior to that, he led the company to amazing new heights. Under his leadership, Disney’s market capitalization increased from $48 billion to $257 billion. He oversaw the acquisition of Pixar in 2006, Marvel entertainment in 2009 and many more after that. He is the perfect exemplar of a leader who has proved himself over an extended period of time.

22. Leading When You're Feeling Leadership Anxiety

All leaders throughout their leadership journey feel intense emotion. While some big decisions like organization restructure, negotiations, acquisitions and mergers can be a source of anxiety, oftentimes it’s the small day-to-day things like a looming deadline, presentation, or a decision meeting that can be a source of stress and anxiety.

23. 20 Principles for Managers to Learn and Lead

Being a manager isn’t easy, and anyone who tells you otherwise ain’t doing their job.

24. Leadership Mindsets: Growth vs. Brilliance

Does it ever cross your mind that praise can be negative? I guess not. After all, it looks harmless and seems to be quite effective. Conventional wisdom says that if you praise people, they are motivated to do better.

25. Top 4 Soft Skills Every New Engineer Should Learn

Engineers must have a combination of both technical skills and soft skills. Here are the top 5 soft skills for engineers.

26. Social Entrepreneurship Qualities You Should Harness

Social entrepreneurship is an excellent way to profit and change the world at the same time, offering a business model that will be pivotal for many years ahead

27. 4 Ways to Prioritize Productivity over Keeping Busy

Being caught in the ‘busy trap’ makes it harder to see that productivity is not based on the number of hours you put in; it’s the time spent creating value.

28. Was Hank Scorpio a Good Boss?

Hank Scorpio achieved something special in The Simpsons.

He got Homer Simpson to CARE about his job.

How did he do it?

29. Alignment Model Leaders Need to Make Better Decisions

Instead of being caught up in mole whacking, leaders need to do grub hunting - focus on the roots instead of leaf-level problems and decisions.

30. I've Been Playing Bass Since I Was 15 And That Made Me A Better Team Lead

I’ve been playing bass since I was 15. I play other instruments as well, but I have always been primarily a bass player.

31. How Bad Managers Work: 9 Signs of a Terrible Manager

If you have worked long enough, chances are you have encountered a bad manager yourself. What was it about them that irked you the most - were they unforgiving, critical, demanding, abusive, aggressive, neglectful, grumpy, lousy or plain inept? Was it their attention seeking behaviour, attitude to blame and insult others, inability to trust or lack of integrity that caused you the most mental agony.

32. The Negative Impact of Telling Your Employees to "Bring Solutions, Not Problems"

Telling your team to stop bringing you problems creates an environment in which employees don’t feel safe talking about the real issues.

33. Changing Leadership Style Mid-Flight, Is It A Good Idea?

I spoke with Louis Carter, CEO Executive Coach, Organizational Psychologist, and CEO of Best Practice Institute to learn more about if leaders should change their styles during specific situations.

34. Can This Ownership Exercise Improve Your Collaboration Habits

Use this easy exercise to figure out who is responsible for what. Handy for teams and individuals.

35. 4 Ways to Foster Your Leadership Skills

I have worked with some excellent managers, people who were not only good at what they did, but also had great leadership potential. Sadly though, these managers didn’t invest in their own growth. They were so busy attending to the daily demands of the management job - putting out fires, resolving production issues, solving for customer escalation, moving from one delivery timeline to another - that they failed to build the skills required to become a great leader some day.

36. On Team Empowerment: Can You Release Control?

How can we transform from the command and control style to leveraging the power of self-direction that energises and engages people?

37. NFX's Gigi Levy-Weiss Talks About Startup Speed, Time Management Tips and Developing a Laser Focus

Every entrepreneur knows that speed is key to a startup’s success.

38. Improve Team Dynamics is Key to Better Workplace Efficiency

Understanding group dynamics and how team-building, when done correctly, can dramatically improve workplace efficiency.

39. The 4 Common Pitfalls We Fall Into As Engineering Managers

Being a successful Engineering Manager is not easy. Learn about 4 common pitfalls of failure that Engineering Managers need to watch out for.

40. Free Leadership Assessment for 500 Startups, Accelerators, and Investors

Wavveup is partnering with US Research Center Blackhawke Behavior Science to offer entrepreneurs the first tailored 360 leadership assessment.

41. I Said, "It's Funny Being Human" at a Marriott Sports Bar in 2001

There I was. Sitting in a Marriott hotel sports bar in downtown Chicago in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday having a drink with a good friend — and suddenly former colleague — when I said that phrase out loud.

42. How to Cultivate Confident Humility for Better Leadership

How do I balance myself on the confidence humility see-saw? What if my confidence is seen as arrogance or my humility as a sign of my lack of assertiveness. How do I come across right?

43. What it Takes to Get Your Team to Collaborate in 2019

Ever felt like you just nailed your team collaboration issues but run into more of them a few weeks later?

44. Lessons From The Flight Deck

I’ve tech-led teams at Facebook, WhatsApp, and Twitter. I’m also a licensed private pilot and have found that there are many lessons from flying that can benefit software engineering teams. In this post, I’d like to share some of these lessons while also providing you an insight into aviation.

45. How to Cultivate Growth Mindset in the Workplace

I have worked with two different kinds of leaders and managers over the years. The one who believes in fixed abilities and promotes a fixed mindset “those who don’t perform well can never do better” and the other who believes in growing those abilities thereby promoting a growth mindset “people can be coached into improving their skills.”

46. Authentic Leadership and How Being on the Wrong Side Can Affect Your Organization

If a leader isn’t authentic, they can’t really be effective.

47. A Guide to Career Promotions and the Peter Principle

Do we really consider promotion as an important decision of our life that requires careful evaluation aligned with our passions, interest levels and abilities? Is it even offered as a choice?

48. Putting Effective Listening Into Practice To Become A Better Leader

Think of a leader who constantly gives you advice, occasionally asks a question only to respond with their own opinion without giving you a chance to speak up your mind, interrupts you and doesn’t let you complete your thoughts, pretends to listen by nodding their head or making sounds like “aha..hmm…” when you can see that they are clearly distracted or those who don’t bother to ask a single question and leave you wondering what to make out of the one-sided conversation.

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