How Are You Turning Your Flywheel?

Hi friends!

Even though it's February, permit me to start with a happy New Year! This is my first newsletter in 2022. I had earlier promised to a monthly newsletter but it’s like fast and furious in the month of January. Things started on a very fast lane for me.

I am grateful!

First, many of you were kind enough to vote for me here on Linkedin in January for the leadersHum “Top 200 Biggest Voices In Leadership To Watch For In 2022.” I came calling to ask for your nomination if you believed I had proven myself as a leadership advisor through the work that I do. I was ranked #83 alongside some of the top global leadership thinkers- Simon Sinek, Gary Vaynerchuk, Adam Grant, Marshall Goldsmith , Whitney Johnson, Dave Ulrich, Josh Bersin, Sanyin Siang, Ken Blanchard, Sally Helgesen Dorie Clark just to mention but few. To me winning is being in the company of these amazing, global leadership thinkers, who strive to do the hard work to help make the world a better place. To be in the company of these top best leaders in the world was an incredible recognition of my work. To add to my joy, I have hosted 7 of the ranked thinkers on my Performance Tools Show in the past. Hosted are- Yemi Faseun (#1), Sally Helgesen(#2), Eddie Turner, (#5), Dave Ulrich (#9), Whitney Johnson (#11), Dr. Diane Hamilton(#12) , Dorie Clark (#13) and Yewande Jinadu (#14). I'm grateful!

You can check out the shortlist here for more information on these beautiful people.

Top 200 Biggest Voices In Leadership To Watch For In 2022

Another big surprise!

I was about to step out of my house last week when a mailman knocked on my door and handed me a parcel filled with books! 6 books altogether and signed by the famed business guru and author of the two landmark management books- Jim Collins. I had reached out to Jim Collins sometime last year as a guest on my LinkedIn Live Show to interview him based on his Good to Great idea. Jim had passed on my request to her personal assistant- Melissa Rutty. Very amiable and pretty lady. Mel, scheduled me for a Zoom call immediately and requested to have a lot of information about me and my intention. Unfortunately, Jim was not available during the time I wanted him on the show. I learned Jim was busy writing another great book. However, Mel promised Jim would come someday. Receiving these books was indeed a surprise to me and were personally autographed by Jim with the inscription on the Good to Great, "Adedoyin, Keep Turning the FlyWheel."

I had read in his Good to Great book where Jim asserted that building great organization never happens in one dramatic step or miracle moment; rather, it is more like pushing a giant flywheel turn upon turn, building cumulative momentum to a point of breakthrough and beyond. Same way in life. The process of greatness in life is also a turn upon turn event. There remained, however, the question of how precisely are you turning your flywheel?

EVENTS: Join my next Episodes on The Performance Tools Linkedin Live!

Next month- March, I have two great guests on the Performance Tools Show.

1.??????Dr. Ruth Gotian, Ruth is the world's #1 emerging management thinker according to Thinkers50. She just launched her book- The Success Factor: Developing the Mindset and Skillset for Peak Performance. Dr. Gotian has done amazing work by interviewing Astronauts, Olympic champions, Nobel laureates, etc. This session will focus on the methodological approach that individuals aspiring to improve their performance can adopt to achieve success.

Thursday 4 March at 5:00 pm WAT

2.?One of my personal heroes is Tom Peters. I have been a huge fan of Tom's since 2003. I came across Tom's book in the PC World Magazine in an article titled "Greatest Business Books of All Time"’. In Search of Excellence was #2 on the list. Ever since I have followed Tom's work and internalized some of his teachings and management practices. Tom as a young associate at McKinsey & Co with his colleague, Robert H. Waterman (died Jan 2, 2022) had been given an intriguing assignment to travel the world and seek out best managerial practices wherever they could find them.?Along the way, their search for best practices became a book project and they eventually published In Search for Excellence in 1982. The book's timing was impeccable. So many leadership lessons to learn from Tom. I'm really excited to be speaking to Tom later next month.

?You don’t want to miss any of these sessions.

Let me leave you with this quote:

“Big things happen because you do a lot of small things supremely well and they compound over time."
                                
                                   
― Jim Collins”        

The future is bright.

― Adedoyin Adebayo