By Steve Moran
A few weeks ago, NYT bestselling author Kim Scott published this post on LinkedIn. In her post, she asks this question:
What is your go-to question that transformed your conversations at work?
I love questions. This was a great one. I was then shocked to see very few responses.
I was even more surprised to discover that with one exception (my response), not a single person answered her question.
It’s Hard
Here is the lesson: Leading well is really hard. Asking questions is one of the most important and difficult aspects of leading. More broadly, knowing how to transform leadership principles like “Radical Candor” into concrete actions is the hardest thing of all.
No leader wants to be a bad leader; in fact, the opposite is true. The problem is they often don’t know how to build great high-performance teams.
It seems obvious: If they knew how, they would.
Practical Passionate Leadership
Practical Passionate Leadership, my new Substack newsletter, has a single goal, and that is to give leaders from the C-suite to department heads practical, actionable things they can do to create better cultures in their organizations, their individual locations, and their individual departments. These are things that have been proven to work.
They are mostly simple to implement, and while not a single one is a magic bullet, if you do them consistently, the results will be astonishing …
