EntreLeadership How to Love and Excel in Your Work as a Leader with Marcus Buckingham
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May 2, 2022 AI Snips
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Red Threads Explain Why Some Moments Make Work Joyful
- Every day is made of many small moments and some of those moments are "red threads" where time flies and you feel mastery.
- Marcus Buckingham says 20% red-thread time in your day substantially raises productivity, creativity, resilience and lowers quitting risk.
Org Design Often Kills Individual Passion
- Modern organizations often create loveless work through surveillance, strict rules, and huge spans of control that prevent managers from helping people find red threads.
- Buckingham says nurse supervisor ratios of 1:60 or similar structures make it impossible to notice individual loves and support them.
Start With Teams To Bring Red Threads Into Work
- Start at the team level rather than waiting for sweeping company policy changes; team leaders can ask about each person's loves and weave them into daily contribution.
- Marcus recommends team leaders be curious about unique red threads even for people in identical jobs.