There are 3 top-level messages that even a surface skim reveals:
- » Love is essential to leadership at scale, because people care little how much you know until you have proven persistently — in the unscriptable moments — how much you care.
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- Love is not an emotion: it is a business decision to care about people, to exercise humility and to learn from every encounter.
- » Role Models are readily available if we but climb to look beyond our previous horizons.
- » The genius of childlike play unlocks:
- the native creativity we all possess
- fosters the exchanges that build trust and
- equips distributed teams to develop and maintain the disruptively innovative culture of business intimacy: telling people what they need to hear, rather than what we think they want to hear.
First & Foremost
The unspoken messages we all transmit are so much more profoundly impactful than those we utter with our lips or our keystrokes.
I am amazed God has graced this career engineer to come full circle to understand business intimacy is central to risk
management success.
Yul Brenner in his unmatched portrayal of the King of Siam says, It
is a puzzlement! And even more pointedly, many will
fight to prove that what they do not know is so!
Second
Extraordinary technology does not demean but rather uplifts the community experience (the voiceprint anti-noise examples), see pp. 259ff.
The Georgsdóttir twins (Icelandic daughters of the company founders) and their oldest sister are role models of
as all three are directors at the firm at an age where most young women,
(other than entrepreneurs), would not even be in mid-level
management.
They give exquisite witness that there is
no gender gap or glass ceiling for those willing to set aside
failed Alinsky-conflict models and truly deliver
transformational leadership.
Third
Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga views play as one of the three fundamental aspects of our existence:
- Homo Sapiens: We the Thinkers
- Homo Ludens: We the Players
- Homo Faber: We the Builders
What works best to communicate is different from field to field. It's not right or wrong, it's what is, like gravity or the sun rising in the East.
Moving from unaware to action (after Céline Shillinger of Sanofi Pasteur), we can radically, exponentially improve our project outcomes.
Read Scaling Time like you would read Alice in Wonderland
Knowing how to write well, to weave captivating stories is both art & science. Writing so people are drawn to read them thus gifts them with the powerful career & personal-life enriching lessons woven throughout this funny yet profoundly deep tapestry.
What's it about?
Scaling Time's first third weaves
characters who lay the foundation for why we care about learning the 19 Days
™ Schedule Scaling framework. People
then tech, never the other way around for enduring success.
Its second third is a cleverly crafted sendup of the failed social engineering that has given us such cultural carnage we see played out in Berkeley and across this great land.
The final third was some of the most mentally challenging writing in has been my privilege to embrace.
We are so excited to help you gain your footing in this novel landscape
(please pardon the pun!) because the richness of this
management tapestry has lessons to teach that scale with no upper limit on the value they deliver to distributed teams.
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The beauty of a digital edition is that we continually revise it from reader
conversations (two this week alone: with a physics professional in FL and a supply chain optimization expert in MN), then upload the improved book so that everyone benefits!
In your comments, please use "tough love." If something isn't conveyed well—tell us! (Directly, not in your Amazon review!) Sweet but empty praise helps no one.
Both BonnieRobin and I can handle constructive critique, in fact we thrive on engaging with our readers and friends, who care enough to tell us when we're not quite reaching our goal of communicating with clarity, passion & purpose.
The Table of Contents is hyperlinked, so it is easy to swiftly move through the book, deep read, skim, note questions, and so forth, to gain a fair sense of the work in reading a bare minimum of 60-90 pages. The more you read, the richer the review you can write!
In closing, we are excited to share this launch week success with you and look forward to your valued input!
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