Leadership Digest: Edition 12

Articles of the Week:

I stumbled upon this series 5 Things I Wish Someone Told Me Before I Became A CEO by Authority Magazine. They interview CEOs of all kinds of companies and the insights are plentiful and deep. Enjoy the rabbit hole!

Make Way for the Feedback Firehose. We are big believers in fostering a feedback culture. The data shows it offers offers numerous benefits, including enhanced employee engagement, improved performance, better communication, increased innovation, and a stronger sense of belonging.

Report of the Week:

Companies with high-performing leadership benches have 22% more women leaders and 36% greater background diversity than companies with low-performing benches. DDI Report

Quote of the Week:

I have been noodling a lot on this quote from exception leader and human Kat Cole (current COO at Athletic Greens, formerly COO at Focus Brands),

“Our truth is in our roots but our past in not our anchor.”

Tool of the Week:

A great way to shift how you show up as a leader is to reflect on the following at the end of each day: “What was my questions-to-statements ratio?” This simple check-in drives awareness and provides a great way to measure progress.

As famed leadership expert and author Jim Collins says,

“If a leader wants to create a climate of trust in which truth is heard it requires a leader to increase one’s ‘questions-to-statements’ ratio.”