March 2020
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
6h 19m
English
Content preview from Cracking the Leadership Code
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 13MAKING THINGS SIMPLE
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
—Leonardo da Vinci
While on the phone with Rachelle, a senior learning and development executive for a global manufacturer, our conversation turned to her company's workplace competencies. Workplace competencies refer to behaviors or skills that are used to define and measure an employee's effectiveness.
Rachelle casually mentioned that her company uses 600 different formal competencies.
Yes, you read that right: 600.
How can anyone possibly remember 600 of anything?
Rachelle and the 600 competencies are but a symptom of a larger disease. Accelerating growth and technologies have created a new organizational malady: complexity. Leaders and employees alike are feeling overloaded and overwhelmed.
For the past few years, I've been helping people escape the complexity trap. I've had the good fortune to work with Lisa Bodell, CEO of Futurethink and author of the bestselling book Why Simple Wins. Lisa spent five years researching her book on overcoming complexity. We then teamed up to bring the content in workshop form to numerous organizations. My thinking owes a debt to Lisa and all the leaders who've participated in the Killing Complexity workshops.
THE SIMPLE ADVANTAGE
It's ironic, but with all the new technology, software, and applications people have access to, what do people crave most? Ease of use. Consider your own experience. For example, if you visit a website that's confusing to navigate, what ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.