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Do you spend enough time encouraging your employees to steal?
If not, check out this episode of The Energy Detox, where you'll hear:
1) how a theft-based culture can actually be the key to sustained success; and
2) why it's up to you as a leader to implement rules that make it easier for your employees to steal.
Curious where the inspiration for this unconventional advice comes from?
Well, look no further than the Pittsburgh Pirates, who have have used every tool (sword?) at their disposal—including roster construction, data analytics, and MLB's bigger bases—to lead the majors in steals and, more importantly, to lead the National League in wins.
Steal like a Pirate. Lead like a champ.
FREE Rapid At-Home (Toxic Leadership) Test!
Are you unwittingly spreading toxicity among your professional and personal stakeholders?
Find out now by taking a simple 3-step test that merely requires answers to these questions:
1 - In what ways are you limiting the growth of those around you?
2 - How might you be protecting yourself at the expense of others?
3 - How sustainable are your demands and expectations?
NOTE: Self-administered tests have a much higher likelihood of false negatives than tests administered by an independent third party...especially if that third party also tests your friends, family, employees, co-workers, and other close contacts.
Additional ways to watch/hear/read/share this and other episodes of can be found here:
https://www.wittingpartners.com/the-energy-detox/rapid-leadership-test
If an company paid 41% more to hire a certified “organic” CEO, you’d think the entire board had gone bananas, right?
Well, even though individual leaders may not (yet) have green “ESG-approved” labels placed on their foreheads, the reality is that consumers and investors are demanding that leaders prove their commitment to , even if doing so doesn’t materially change the way their company operates or the molecular structure of the product they sell.
And with EQT Corporation announcing this morning that the majority of its will be “certified” by the end of the year, it’s a good time to ask whether you—as either a CEO addressing mounting pressures or a job-seeker who feels more and more like a commodity—are getting full credit for the things you’re ALREADY doing and maximizing the value of the investments you’ve ALREADY made before wasting time and money pretending to be something you're not.
04/14/2021
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the play?”
Thanks to the actions of failed oilman John Wilkes Booth 156 years ago today, that joke has been used for decades to inject some laughter after a person experiences something unpleasant.
And considering the diverse ways (both positive and negative) that leaders have responded to the litany of “unpleasant interruptions” over the last year, today’s solemn anniversary is a fine time to ask yourself one question:
“How often am I unwittingly displaying a level of insensitivity, ignorance, or selfishness rivaling the fictitious question posed to Mary Lincoln?”
If your answer is “never,” congratulations!
But if you're being as truthful as Honest Abe, your answer is probably NOT "never," and you, therefore, may want to do the following:
1) recognize that months of layoffs, uncertainty, burnout, etc. has likely produced many more Mrs. Lincolns (...and Mr. Booths) among your stakeholders than you may have realized;
2) start looking for times when you’re unconsciously steering conversations back to your own self-interests; and
3) jot down a few practical ways you as a leader can better respond to the next inevitable “interruption.".and for more information about John Wilkes Booth's ties to the oilfield (as if the industry isn't hated enough already!), the 'Dramatic Oil Company' he co-founded, and how the unsuccessful "shooting" of an oil well arguably led to Booth's shooting of our 16th president, check out the link below:
Dramatic Oil Company - American Oil & Gas Historical Society John Wilkes Booth and actor friends drilled for Pennsylvania oil in 1864 — and found it. After forming an oil company and drilling for “black gold” in booming northwestern Pennsylvania, the actor’s dreams of a petroleum fortune collapsed in June 1864. He then sought fame as a martyr to the C...
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