What they don't tell you about leadership

Notes from a talk given at CTO Craft Conference: Culture and the CTO

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At CTO Craft Conference: Culture and the CTO I had the opportunity to do a “lightening talk”. In the talk, I discussed a story about how I was communicating when I started my first senior leadership role, and how my good intentions created negative consequences. I discussed Albert Mehrabian’s theory of communication and then dive into inclusive conversation tools of:

• Rules of engagement

• Think, write, share

• Everyone speaks once before anyone speaks twice

• Using anonymity to foster psychological safety

References and further reading

• The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever; Michael Bungay Stanier

• The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever; Michael Bungay Stanier

• The Good Fight; Liane Davey

• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts; Annie Duke

• The Culture Map; Erin Meyer

• What Every BODY Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Speed-Reading People; Joe Navarro

• The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation; Henri Lipmanowicz, Keith McCandless

• Red Teaming: Transform Your Business by Thinking Like the Enemy; Bryce Hoffman

• The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey

• The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness; Stephen R. Covey

• Noise; Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

• Thinking, Fast and Slow; Daniel Kahneman

• Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts; Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

• Leadership is language; David L. Marquet

https://conference.ctocraft.com/november-2023/