Tactics for effective leadership.

Some approaches to combat leadership pitfalls:rR10

  • Explicitly ask for arguments against your ideas. Creates the space for pushback that one may expect but not naturally receive.
  • Make bad proposals, or incomplete ideas, to solicit their thoughts. Implicitly delegates solutioning to them and builds trust as they find their ideas affect change.
  • Build relationships everywhere. Gives access to better context, space to bounce around ideas, and opportunity to act on hidden problems.
  • Appreciate opposition to help de-risk future contributions from individual contributors.
  • Servant leadership. Stay hidden during success, act as support.
  • Roll out plans incrementally with previews and feedback gathering.

  1. Jade Rubick, “Everyone Lies to Leaders,” June 1, 2021, https://www.rubick.com/everyone-lies-to-leaders/. (See notes.)