These are some useful tools to help bolster the Knowledge, Skills, and Understanding that a leader needs to use with Head, Hands, and Heart in practice.
Books
- Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King & Halee Fischer-Wright
- http://www.culturesync.net/tribal-leadership-book/
- This book serves as a guide to identify stages of organizational structures.
- Great for both analyzing current status and ways to improve from there.
- Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
- http://99u.com/book/making-ideas-happen-2
- Guide to go from idea development to realization.
- This will help to prevent turning into just an idea person without any actual results.
Activities
- Observation and Reflection Session in Nature
- (See Week 14 and Week 8 Travel Logs for examples)
- Method to relax and focus on the present surroundings to perform self-analysis.
- Great exercise to perform periodically to reconnect to natural surroundings and reorient oneself.
- Socratic Inquiry Session
- http://www.philosopher.org/SC_Tips_One.html
- Useful tool to develop big ideas with a group.
- This can be used to both work on an idea and practice leadership skills and bond within a working group.
Videos
- How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp0HIF3SfI4
- Video which explains the Golden Circle way to lead from the Heart
- (Inside Out Method or Why vs What).
- Good guide to use if leadership is faltering.
- Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4ithG_07Q
- Overview of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Basic guide to understanding the needs of individuals, useful for analyzing tribe members.
- The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
- Video guide about what drives motivation in people. Some very counter-intuitive lessons about what drives people to perform well, especially with tasks that require thought.
- Works well to teach about better ways to get people involved with their work and improve performance.
- Could You Build a Winning Team Like This?
- https://youtu.be/8tz1IgB6IeA
- Video showing the leadership model of geese (heterarchy)
- Inspires and teaches about leadership models that rotate and aren't dependent on a single leader.
- https://youtu.be/8tz1IgB6IeA
- John Cleese on Creativity in Management
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
- Video about how to develop creative thought (How to switch from closed to open thinking and the strengths of each)
- This is a great guide to check in, especially in the case of running into writers' block or other stumbling blocks in idea development. Provides a very simple strategy of allocating a time session to come up with new ideas.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g
Blogs
- Seth Godin
- http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
- Blog from an industry leader, with daily entries varying from long writings to short insights.
- Great guide and motivation to check in daily for inspiration.
- Innovation Excellence
- http://innovationexcellence.com/
- Blog from a design collective, with many different viewpoints represented.
- Provides a wide variety of outlooks, examples, and guides for innovation. Can use like a swiss-army knife for creative leadership practice.
- Daring to Live Fully
- http://daringtolivefully.com/
- Inspirational blog from an entrepreneur/lawyer.
- Provides motivating articles and exercises to practice to expand the depth and breadth of life.
- Quiet Revolution
- https://www.quietrev.com/
- Blog by the same author as the Quiet: The Power of Introverts book
- Provides articles about industry leaders and strategies introverts can use.
- The Do Lectures
- http://www.thedolectures.com/
- Inspirational talks from a variety of people - movers and shakers of the world.
- Basic formula: Ideas + Energy = Change
- This really works well to motivate and build energy based on hearing others' shared experiences.
- http://www.thedolectures.com/