Renaissance for Leaders

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Author: Andrew John Harrison Page 2 of 54

Founder of Goldzone Group and the primary author of Renaissance for Leaders. Harrison's work focuses on the study of leadership and the conditions that shape human performance and decision-making.

Personal finance: How to save, spend, and think rationally about money

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On June 13, 2023

In Money & Wealth

Whether you have a lot of money or debt, it matters how you handle your finances. A crucial step in saving is to reassess your relationship with money and learn to adopt a broader, more logical point of view. In this video, social innovator and activist Vicki Robin, psychologist Daniel Kahneman, Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton, and author Bruce Feiler offer advice on achieving financial independence, learning to control your emotions, spending smarter, and teaching children about money. It all starts with education and understanding.

The more you know about how money works, the better you will be at avoiding mistakes and the easier it will be to take control of your financial circumstances.

Check Vicki Robin’s latest book, Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence, at https://a.co/d/23a2Pjv

Flow | Animated Book Summary

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On June 10, 2023

In Leadership & Influence

The 8 Characteristics of Flow

Csikszentmihalyi describes eight characteristics of flow:

  1. Complete concentration on the task;
  2. Clarity of goals and reward in mind and immediate feedback;
  3. Transformation of time (speeding up/slowing down);
  4. The experience is intrinsically rewarding;
  5. Effortlessness and ease;
  6. There is a balance between challenge and skills;
  7. Actions and awareness are merged, losing self-conscious rumination;
  8. There is a feeling of control over the task.

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: Leadership at Scale

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On June 9, 2023

In Business & Entrepreneurship

This is part 3 of 3.

Part 1: The Functional Organization

Part 2: The Leadership Model

Deciding how to organize areas of expertise to best enable collaboration and rapid decision-making has been an important responsibility of the CEO.

The adjustments Tim Cook has implemented in recent years include dividing the hardware function into hardware engineering and hardware technologies; adding artificial intelligence and machine learning as a functional area; and moving the human interface out of software to merge it with industrial design, creating an integrated design function. Based on the HBR article, “How Apple Is Organized for Innovation” by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen:

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-…

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Leadership Model

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On June 8, 2023

In Business & Entrepreneurship

This is part 2 of 3.

Part 1: The Functional Organization

Part 3: Leadership at Scale

Ever since Steve Jobs implemented the functional organization, Apple’s managers at every level, from the senior vice president on down, have been expected to possess three key leadership characteristics: deep expertise that allows them to meaningfully engage in all the work being done within their individual functions; immersion in the details of those functions; and a willingness to collaboratively debate other functions during collective decision-making.

When managers have these attributes, decisions are made in a coordinated fashion by the people most qualified to make them. Based on the HBR article, “How Apple Is Organized for Innovation” by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen:

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-…

How Apple Is Organized for Innovation: The Functional Organization

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On June 7, 2023

In Business & Entrepreneurship

This is part 1 of 3.

Part 2: The Leadership Model

Part 3: Leadership at Scale

Adopting a functional structure may have been unsurprising for a company of Apple’s size at the time. What is surprising—in fact, remarkable—is that Apple retains it today, even though the company is nearly 40 times as large in terms of revenue and far more complex than it was in 1998. Senior vice presidents are in charge of functions, not products.

As was the case with Jobs before him, CEO Tim Cook occupies the only position on the organizational chart where the design, engineering, operations, marketing, and retail of any of Apple’s main products meet.

Besides the CEO, the company operates with no conventional general managers: people who control an entire process from product development through sales and are judged according to a P&L statement. Based on the HBR article, “How Apple Is Organized for Innovation” by Joel M. Podolny and Morten T. Hansen:

https://hbr.org/2020/11/how-apple-is-…

12 Principles of Forgiveness

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On May 1, 2023

In Health & Vitality

The acclaimed author and teacher explains the principles that are integral to the process of forgiving according to Buddhist philosophy.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

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On November 2, 2022

In Health & Vitality

David Foster Wallace‘s 2005 commencement speech to the graduating class at Kenyon College is a timeless trove of wisdom.

This is Water

“Greetings parents and congratulations to Kenyon’s graduating class of 2005. There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes “What the hell is water?”

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Finding Your Purpose and Living a Meaningful Life

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On November 1, 2022

In Leadership & Influence

In April of 1958, Hunter S. Thompson was 22 years old when he wrote this letter to his friend Hume Logan in response to a request for life advice.

Thompson’s letter, found in Letters of Note, offers thoughtful and profound advice.

April 22, 1958
57 Perry Street
New York City

Dear Hume,

You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal— to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.

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Leadership Advice from Marcus Aurelius

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On October 22, 2022

In Leadership & Influence

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Dominance, Trustworthiness, and Competence in Body Motion During Speeches

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On October 18, 2022

In Leadership & Influence

Highlights

  • Body movements of politicians giving speeches were turned into stick-figure videos.
  • Stimuli were rated on dominance, trustworthiness, and competence.
  • Simple nonverbal cues were linked to perceptions of dominance and trustworthiness.
  • Male speakers from opposition parties received the highest ratings on dominance.
  • Body motion has ecological validity and is a nonverbal cue of social relevance.

People read dominance, trustworthiness, and competence into the faces of politicians but do they also perceive such social qualities in other nonverbal cues? We transferred the body movements of politicians giving a speech onto animated stick figures and presented these stimuli to participants in a rating experiment.

Analyses revealed single-body postures of maximal expansiveness as strong predictors of perceived dominance. Also, stick figures producing expansive movements and many movements throughout the encoded sequences were judged high on dominance and low on trustworthiness.

In a second step, we divided our sample into speakers from the opposition parties and speakers that were part of the government, and male and female speakers. Male speakers from the opposition were rated higher on dominance but lower on trustworthiness than speakers from all other groups.

In conclusion, people use simple cues to make equally simple social categorizations. Moreover, the party status of male politicians seems to become visible in their body motions.

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