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I’ve just finished reading Seth Godin’s book Poke the Box and am just finishing Ricardo Semler’s The Seven Day Weekend. One theme that has struck me is the value of diversity in team, thought and innovation.
Don’t think like me
Authenticity
Don’t think like me
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I’ve just finished reading Seth Godin’s book Poke the Box and am just finishing Ricardo Semler’s The Seven Day Weekend. One theme that has struck me is the value of diversity in team, thought and innovation.
Leaders in non-profits: yes, it’s a business!
My final project for my Leadership in the Digital Age course was a video featuring portions of two interviews I conducted with two people that I left qualified as authentic leaders: Dr. Jim AuBuchon, president and CEO of the Puget Sound Blood Center (Seattle, WA) and president of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), and Dr. Scott Dudley, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue, WA. One of the reasons these two organizations fascinated me is that, while being non-profits, they are both rather sizable organizations with sizable membership and budgets to match….not the way one might initially view a blood bank or a church.
Leader X.0–Non-profits
During the course of these excerpts, these two leaders share some early leadership experiences, how social media and digital media influence their leaderships styles, and their guiding philosophies.
Future installments will return to these two leaders as well as include interviews with several others I have met so far.
Leaders in non-profits: yes, it’s a business!
My final project for my Leadership in the Digital Age course was a video featuring portions of two interviews I conducted with two people that I left qualified as authentic leaders: Dr. Jim AuBuchon, president and CEO of the Puget Sound Blood Center (Seattle, WA) and president of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), and Dr. Scott Dudley, senior pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Bellevue, WA. One of the reasons these two organizations fascinated me is that, while being non-profits, they are both rather sizable organizations with sizable membership and budgets to match….not the way one might initially view a blood bank or a church.
Leader X.0–Non-profits
During the course of these excerpts, these two leaders share some early leadership experiences, how social media and digital media influence their leaderships styles, and their guiding philosophies.
Future installments will return to these two leaders as well as include interviews with several others I have met so far.
Lead? Who….me?
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In The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, one of the initial calls made to a reader is to first lead yourself. What I have learned so far as I delve into this area of study and experience is how critical it is to discover who you are. No, seriously….
I really do get how “new-agey” or “self-helpy” that sounds. If I had been presented with that exhortation earlier in my life, it would have elicited a derisive snort and that would have been the end of it. However, in the more serious context of the course I’ve been taking and the books we’re been reading (see my earlier post here for background), the skeptic fog has dissipated some. I have spent quite a bit more time writing out my personal story, rereading it and stepping back to see the touchstone experiences/people/movements that brought me to where I am today.
Lead? Who….me?
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In The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, one of the initial calls made to a reader is to first lead yourself. What I have learned so far as I delve into this area of study and experience is how critical it is to discover who you are. No, seriously….
I really do get how “new-agey” or “self-helpy” that sounds. If I had been presented with that exhortation earlier in my life, it would have elicited a derisive snort and that would have been the end of it. However, in the more serious context of the course I’ve been taking and the books we’re been reading (see my earlier post here for background), the skeptic fog has dissipated some. I have spent quite a bit more time writing out my personal story, rereading it and stepping back to see the touchstone experiences/people/movements that brought me to where I am today.
So where DO leaders come from?
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I’m just past the halfway mark in my final class before completing my Master of Communications in Digital Media (MCDM) program from the University of Washington. The class is all about being a leader in the digital age, which, if you just blow past the words, sounds like yet another survey of leadership styles, papers to write, a video project and some other deliverables. Turns out it is providing me yet another viewpoint from which to view myself and those around me. By the way, this has been true for every single endeavor I’ve undertaken in this program, but now back to our show….
Traveling the Road
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I have had a few careers so far: professional musician, music teacher/band director, software developer, college instructor, technology specialist for developers, consultant, product planner and product manager. Every one of them, along with every other subject I’ve ever studied and things for which I have a passion, are what I bring to what I do. My primary motivator in each of these is helping people (OK, so playing music is helping people enjoy themselves….or so I hope…).
Road to Authenticity – Part 1
In the several roles I have online (professional, educational, consultative, personal) I find that I have to cope with varying degrees of perceived authenticity. I’ve been reading Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath, partly because I’m a storyteller and I appreciate being able to look at the way I formulate ideas and thoughts into stories in more a narrative arc, and partly because of the Web Strategies for Storytelling class I am taking this Fall at the University of Washington in conjunction with my Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program.
Anyway, the chapter I’m reading now is on the credibility of your story. Since credibility leads pretty much straight to authenticity, I started to think about how credible I am in each of these arenas and how that came about (and how it might change). Not surprisingly, the online roles that are bolstered to some degree by personal, face-to-face contact carry a different quality of credibility. This really points up the nature of the more human nature of social media (“I’ve met you, I know you a little better, and that helps me trust what you say.”). It also points to the challenges of online roles that have little or no face-to-face components.
I watched an online video today on Jason Falls’ blog about four books he recommended reading. Although I only came upon his blog (“met him”, if you will) today, he has attained greater credibility with me because of two things:
- His video book reviews. He has personalized an experience that is important to me; I enjoy hearing about good books in my chats with friends and colleagues, and the video creates an openness that reached past what a simple blog post book review would have done.
- I already have two of the four books on my Kindle. OK, so that’s serendipity, but it strengthens his other recommendations to me. And it also made me bookmark his blog….
So these are all things that I want to get to. The kind of online credibility and authenticity that makes a first-time visitor go with your recommendations (or at least some of them) and want to come back for more.
Road to Authenticity – Part 1
In the several roles I have online (professional, educational, consultative, personal) I find that I have to cope with varying degrees of perceived authenticity. I’ve been reading Made to Stick by Chip and Dan Heath, partly because I’m a storyteller and I appreciate being able to look at the way I formulate ideas and thoughts into stories in more a narrative arc, and partly because of the Web Strategies for Storytelling class I am taking this Fall at the University of Washington in conjunction with my Master of Communication in Digital Media (MCDM) program.
Anyway, the chapter I’m reading now is on the credibility of your story. Since credibility leads pretty much straight to authenticity, I started to think about how credible I am in each of these arenas and how that came about (and how it might change). Not surprisingly, the online roles that are bolstered to some degree by personal, face-to-face contact carry a different quality of credibility. This really points up the nature of the more human nature of social media (“I’ve met you, I know you a little better, and that helps me trust what you say.”). It also points to the challenges of online roles that have little or no face-to-face components.
I watched an online video today on Jason Falls’ blog about four books he recommended reading. Although I only came upon his blog (“met him”, if you will) today, he has attained greater credibility with me because of two things:
- His video book reviews. He has personalized an experience that is important to me; I enjoy hearing about good books in my chats with friends and colleagues, and the video creates an openness that reached past what a simple blog post book review would have done.
- I already have two of the four books on my Kindle. OK, so that’s serendipity, but it strengthens his other recommendations to me. And it also made me bookmark his blog….
So these are all things that I want to get to. The kind of online credibility and authenticity that makes a first-time visitor go with your recommendations (or at least some of them) and want to come back for more.
Authentic Voice 