Issue No. 423 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting highlights leadership growth resource options for your 2020 weekly staff meetings. Remember—delegate your reading! And this reminder: click here to download free resources from the 20 management buckets (core competencies) and check out this website for recent book reviews, including Turning Goals Into Results (Harvard Business Review Classics): The Power of Catalytic Mechanisms, by Jim Collins.
2020 Leadership Growth Books
In the foreword to Scott Rodin’s book, Steward Leader Meditations, Richard Kriegbaum cautions about the challenging reality “that leadership is a complex field and no one resource can meet all the needs of every leader in every situation.”
So as you’re looking ahead to leadership growth opportunities in 2020 (and perhaps still needing an appropriate Christmas gift uniquely selected for a uniquely gifted team member or board member), here are some options.
2020 LEADERSHIP GROWTH
52 WEEKS
A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness, by Joseph A. Maciariello (Order from Amazon) – Libro.fm Audiobook (11 hours)
• Coach your team on a 52-week journey through this treasure chest of leadership insights and management savvy.
• Delegate each week’s topic to a team member—and resource them with the color commentaries of 52 guest bloggers that weighed in on the 52 short chapters including: “A Second Chance for Failures,” “Work in an Area of Your Unique Contribution,” and “The Power of Purpose: Rick Warren on Peter Drucker.”
365 DAYS
The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You, by John C. Maxwell (Order from Amazon)
• For 365 days, when your colleagues read a snippet from this one-day-a-page daily reader, they’ll think of you with appreciation!
• See “The 80/20 Principle” from November 2: “Spend 80 percent of your personal development dollars on the top 20 percent.”
366 DAYS
The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done, by Peter F. Drucker with Joseph A. Maciariello (Order from Amazon)
• Click here to read my review of this classic book found on the desks of thousands of leaders and managers around the world. One page of wisdom per day!
• April 10 is a must-read on “Crisis and Leadership.” Drucker writes, “Fortunately or unfortunately the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That’s when you do depend on the leader.”
• April 11, “The Four Competencies of a Leader,” in just one page, sums up the four skills: “…listening, communicating, reengineering mistakes, and subordinating your ego to the task at hand.”
40 WEEKS OR 40 DAYS
Leadership Briefs: Shaping Organizational Culture to Stretch Leadership Capacity, by Dick Daniels. (Order from Amazon)
• Daniels can pack more into three pages than other authors can pack into 30. Leverage Leadership Briefs with your team for 40 days or 40 weeks.
• I named this my 2015 book-of-the-year (read my review). The 40 pithy topics are categorized into nine sections, including: Culture, Formation, Character, Strategy, Leading, Teams, Followers, Communication, and Etcetera: Behind the Scenes.
• Chapter 30 on delegation: “Leaders have three options: (1) Not delegating, (2) Delegating prematurely, or (3) Delegating developmentally.”
• Bonus: Subscribe here to the author’s Leadership eLetter, The Leadership Brief. This month’s topic: “Five Questions for a New Decade,” includes “The Letting Go Question: What should we stop doing?”
20 WEEKS OR 20 DAYS
Mastering the Management Buckets Workbook: Management Tools, Templates and Tips from John Pearson, with commentary by Jason Pearson (Order from Amazon)
• Create a “Management Minute” at your weekly staff meeting and inspire your team to highlight one insight from one bucket each week.
• Use the book or the workbook or both.
• Did you know that Jeff Bezos launches every Amazon meeting with a “silent start?” Read Jason’s color commentary for The Meetings Bucket. He quotes Justin Bariso writing for Inc. magazine:
“In the opening minutes of some meetings, before any discussion begins, Bezos and his team of senior executives read printed memos in total silence. (The memos have been known to reach up to six pages, and the silent start may last as long as 30 minutes.) During this time, moderator and attendees peruse. They scribble notes in the margins. But most important, they think.”
2020 SELF-GUIDED GROWTH
Amazon Gift Card in a Snowflake Tin (Order from Amazon)
• Some team members may favor picking your own book—based on their unique preferences and challenges. If so…an Amazon gift card is perfect!
2020 PERSONAL GROWTH
Silencio: Reflective Practices for Nurturing Your Soul, Stephen A. Macchia, Editor (Order from Amazon)
• Watch for the next issue with personal growth books for 2020, including this hot-off-the-press and slow-you-down 52-week resource from the Leadership Transformations Ministry Team, led by Stephen A. Macchia.
YOUR WEEKLY STAFF MEETING QUESTIONS:
1) In the introduction to his book, Leadership Prayers, Richard Kriegbaum writes, “Do not let the simplicity of these prayers fool you. If leadership were easy, everyone would be a great leader. Great leadership is from the spirit. The life of the spirit may be simple, even obvious, but it is never easy.” Are we leveraging the right resources at the right time to grow leaders in our organization?
2) John Maxwell’s one-page daily insight for May 4 is “Become Comfortable With the Middle.” He writes, “Being in the middle can be a great place—as long as you have bought into the vision and believe in the leader.” Whew! That’s a gut check, right? Here’s an Amazon gift card. Buy Maxwell’s book and share more at our next weekly staff meeting.
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“Thank God It’s Monday!” - 3 Gift Books
Insights from Mastering the Management Buckets Workbook
One of the big ideas in the Hoopla! Bucket, Chapter 10, in Mastering the Management Buckets is this: “We harness the power of hoopla! for celebration, recreation, intentional food and fellowship gatherings, and just plain fun.” So…for some out-of-the-box fun gift ideas for team members or family members, here are three more suggestions:
#1. The Book of Mistakes, by Corinna Luyken (Order from Amazon)
• Click here to read the review from 2018 by my grandkids, Emelia, Zuzu, and Anders (now high school juniors)—and their insights into the efficacy of mistake-making!
• It’s not what you’d expect—it’s better. This gorgeously-illustrated coffee table-perfect children’s book is big on white space, and short on pages (just 56). And this caution—display it on the coffee table in your reception area and someone will “borrow” it within an hour. (Better buy two!)
#2. The 5 Book: Where Will You Be Five Years From Today? by Dan Zadra (Order from Amazon)
• “At age 30, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was living in a 500-square foot apartment. Five years later his net worth was $10 billion.”
• The next five years, says Zadra, will deliver 260 opportunities to say “TGIM: Thank goodness it’s Monday!” As you think about goals, “how could you put every Monday on a pedestal?”
• Read my review (click here) on the power of five-year thinking—and why you do have enough time in your schedule for strategic planning.
#3. Oak Street Treehouse: The Day They Messaged God, by Dick Daniels and illustrated by Mollie Bozarth (Order From Amazon)
• From leadership guru Dick Daniels is a delightful children’s book written for his “six incredible grandchildren.” In their treehouse, six neighborhood friends “take the tablet used for playing games and send a message to God. They want to know who He really is. God replies and sends them on three neighborhood field trips to look at different parts of creation.”
• While it’s a children’s book, leaders will find this storytelling art form of interest—how to communicate complex ideas in simple, yet contemporary (think iPad) ways.
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JASON PEARSON: UNEXPECTED CREATIVE. Are you leveraging the extraordinary power of visual media to inspire your members, clients, or customers? Check out the innovative work from Jason Pearson at Pearpod Media (branding, digital, print, and video), including the new book by Jason Pearson and Doug Fields, This. Customizable Journal: 52 Ways to Share Your World With Those You Love. (Read John’s review here.)
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