deepstash
Beta
How to Accept Imperfection Like a Leader
When To Reject Imperfection
- Unethical behaviors.
- Substandard performance from those with demonstrated competence.
- Imperfect teammates when they don’t aspire to improve.
- When it causes harm.
69 SAVES
This is a professional note extracted from an online article.
Read more efficiently
Save what inspires you
Remember anything
IDEA EXTRACTED FROM:
3
Key Ideas
Accepting Imperfection
- It enables connection: vulnerabilities are magnets that pull us together. Show your imperfections if you expect transparency and candor from people.
- It enables action: initiative is deadly when mistakes are punishable. The pursuit of better is an acknowledgment of imperfection.
- It ignites boldness: confront mistakes of neglect. Celebrate mistakes of initiative.
Imperfection Acceptance And Talent
Less talented teammates require more intervention and supervision. And counterintuitively, the brighter and more talented your team, the more necessary it is to accept imperfection.
People love, implement, and improve their own ideas. So accepting imperfections makes people smarter as they strive to make things viable.
When To Reject Imperfection
- Unethical behaviors.
- Substandard performance from those with demonstrated competence.
- Imperfect teammates when they don’t aspire to improve.
- When it causes harm.
SIMILAR ARTICLES & IDEAS:
15
Key Ideas
Remote-first Mindset
Accept that you have to put in place remote work systems, even if more than half of your employees ultimately revert to office-based work.
- If done right, a remote-first infrastructu...
Build a socially-connected culture
Intentionally design for the same interactions that would otherwise happen if people were in the office.
- Culture is what naturally happens when a group of people gets together for any period.
- A great culture happens with intentional design and influence. It's the reason you should make your company's mission, vision, values, operating principles, standards, and agreements visible.
- Culture is experienced through emotions, including how your employees feel about the company, you, other leaders, and peers. That feeling is developed through human interaction at the water cooler, kitchen, or hallway conversations.
Your leadership presence
Your people need to feel your presence as a leader as they will have fewer opportunities to see you face to face when they work remotely.
- Regularly show up in a variety of forms that can include weekly video meetings, periodic company-wide emails, or presence in public channels.
- Err on the side of more communication rather than less.
12 more ideas
9
Key Ideas
A Good Negotiator
Negotiating doesn't mean arguing, being stubborn or creating a scene. The best negotiators are empathetic and collaborative, pursuing a mutually fulfilling solution. A good negotiator ca...
A Personal Touch
A job negotiation is preferable in person or on the phone, as compared to the impersonal and cold feel of the email.
Talking on the phone provides you with an opportunity to build a connection so that the recruiter understands you and your motivations, while you have a better grip on their motivations.
If the job negotiation is on email only, be direct and honest. Email lets you strategize your words carefully.
Have An Alternative
Having an alternative, a second job offer with you makes your negotiation game stronger, as the employer knows that you can simply walk away. Having the offer from a prestigious company also strengthens your perceived market value.
Having a BATNA (Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement) provides you with confidence, based on how strong the employer perceives it as well as how you perceive it.
6 more ideas
6
Key Ideas
Narcissists
They have inflated views of themselves (they think they are better than they actually are).
They make fantastic first impressions. But the stuff that works for narcissists so well in the sho...
Don't deal with them
Narcissists lack empathy, they usually don’t work hard, and in a few weeks to a few months, they make the people around them miserable. And narcissism is very hard to change. So, if at all possible, just stay away.
Kiss Up Or Shut Up
Clinical psychologist Al Bernstein recommends you kiss up to them or at least keep your mouth shut until you can get out of there.
There’s this concept called “narcissistic injury.” Pointing out a narcissist isn’t all they think they are can be like pulling the pin on a grenade. A grenade you have to see every day of your life.
3 more ideas