Let’s be honest. What this post is really about is what blogs this leadership blog writer reads, simply because these blogs may be of benefit to you. Like you, I skim read a number of blogs and newsletters. But there are only three writers who consistently offer me compelling reading.
What’s interesting is what gets frontline managers and executives fired. While there is some basic commonality between frontline leadership and senior leadership, senior leaders get promoted for certain abilities that aren’t necessarily required of frontline leaders, they get fired for different things, and their role is fundamentally different.
There’s an easy way for you to practically apply the Dead Man’s Test. The easy way to pass the test is to avoid saying ‘don’t’. Or to put it another way, don’t say don’t.
It’s quite amazing what dead men don’t do. But dead men can teach you something about Effective Leadership.