Week 20.43 Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?

Does anyone really care?

Pandemic. Politics. It’s getting dark out there and with the end of daylight savings time… it’s going to get darker before it gets light. If you are like me, it is becoming more and more difficult to keep track of time. Between dark breakfast, back to back ZOOM calls in the artificial light, and dark dinner, it is harder and harder to know what time it is any more. On the other hand, collaborating more frictionlessly across time zones, the question could be asked, does anyone really care? 

And then I had the pleasure of attending SuperPowers in Symphony, hosted by Oshoke Abalu and held at Kraft during which she and her superfriends composed music in real-time using the inputs from participants which included this seriously superlative spoken-word selection from Orlando Watson:

Therefore we sort of catch up and muster the Moxie to make a difference. Let's make life delicious, together demanding diversity to the use of superpowers to relish in a much better world.

We all know what time it is. It’s time to care. It’s time to take action. It’s time to recognize that we are not all created equal, we are all created amazing and our job as leaders is to recognize and bring out the superpowers of our work and life families. Because let’s face it if leaders won’t lead then who will?

Change is in the air, friends, take a deep breath, and enjoy! Together we will make better happen. We each know what to do, now we all need to do it. I was planning to write so much more - but you know what to do…

Learn from David Peterson - our good friend and Google’s Former Head of Coaching (10/29or30 or 11/10)

David and his partner David Goldsmith are hosting a new masterclass with WBECS that will show you 5 Ways to Accelerate Your Coaching Impact. In this complimentary live masterclass, learn how to give your clients real value in the first 20 minutes - of their first coaching session. Register for this experience here: https://coach.wbecs.com/ace-2021/MG100_Partners

GLOBAL PETER DRUCKER FORUM 2020 Oct 28-30 

Deepa Prahalad will be interviewing Marshall and our friends Sally Helgeson, Hal Gregerson, Alex Osterwalder, and Rita McGrath will be presenting. Peter Drucker resisted the idea of defining leadership in terms of charisma, decisiveness, or other personal attributes often seen as a key to leaders‘ success. For him, a leader was someone who had followers. The term was value-neutral: it recognized that there are good, bad, and even toxic leaders. With its emphasis on the how and the what of work, management as a social technology has delivered huge progress through productivity gains. Leaders are expected to focus more on the who and the why — that is, on people and purpose. In real life, there is no clear-cut separation between management and leadership, but the weighting varies with different roles in the organization. The crises we are currently enduring demand excellent management, but also create imperatives for leadership – which can succeed or fail dramatically in separating the essential from the nonessential, acting decisively in the short term, and anticipating consequences in the long term. www.druckerforum.org

Sanyin Siang: Fostering Belonging as a Leader

How do you Foster Belonging as a Leader? I am so so proud to share my newest LinkedIn Learning course on this topic. We started developing this last fall and while the topic was relevant then, we didn’t anticipate how critical it will be today. This 31-minute course explores 12 different topics ranging from onboarding to exits, from one on one meetings to scaling up belonging virtually. https://www.dhirubhai.net/learning/fostering-belonging-as-a-leader

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pamay Bassey November 1

And, as always, thank you, Marshall, for making all of this possible 

With love and gratitude

Scott