The Manager - Edition 39 - Squirrels and Ruining Things - by Rob Lambert
Cultivated Management Newsletter
Howdy Cultivated Managers and welcome to this week’s Cultivated Management newsletter.
I hope you’ve had a cracking weekend and are all set for the week ahead.
This weekend I’ve been studying and learning about Squirrels for an upcoming book entitled “The Squirrels Who Ruined Everything”.
It’s a book about a group of greedy, ego centric Squirrels who’s sole focus on costs and budgets drives a squirrel company in to the ground, and puts at risk the whole of Squirrel Land.
I’ll be writing the book over the next few weeks and aim to have it ready for my editor by the end of September. I’m looking forward to writing this book - it’s essentially a kids book for business professionals.
This week I’ve been reminded of how much our very actions influence and lead others people’s actions, especially if we’re in a management/leadership role.
If we shout at people, our directs may also shout at others. If we’re aggressive and gnarly and unfriendly - so too might our directs be with their directs or peers. If we don’t care about details - why should others? If we don’t trust other people - why would we expect them to trust us?
As a manager it’s super important not to ask others to do what we ourselves don’t do. We must lead by example. We must cultivate ourselves. And I realised I'd let this slip a little. I must try harder :)
Rob
Stuff To Click On :
1 - To succeed - you actually have to start. Good article by James Clear.
2 - Learning by teaching others is a very effective way of learning.
3 - Bootstrapping is just as important as the Entrepreneur seeking the investment route. I agree. I'm bootstrapping with zero intention of every seeking investors.
4 - Get Things Done With Smaller Teams - couldn't agree more with this article.
5 - I've always been a big fan of Evernote - and even became a Brand Ambassador for some time, but it's time to move on from the Green Elephant. It's becoming increasingly tedious trying to locate data in Evernote and the company doesn't seem to be making it's user experience a priority. So with a heavy heart I've said Goodbye to Evernote and have moved over to DevonThink. So far, so good. It's not perfect, the UI is from the 80s and the sync between client and iPhone can be slow but overall - it's proving very good. DevonThink allows you to store documents in the Database too - so you can just open them within your favourite software tool and they automatically save back to DevonT. It's not just notes anymore - it's everything. If you're an Evernote fan and are worried about the recent turmoil - I can, so far, recommend DevonThink.
6 - Useful article on why writing good emails may get you promoted. The bar isn't very high when it comes to writing good emails in most companies. Even so, I do believe that if you're able to communicate well - you'll be seen as influential, competent and you'll stand out for all of the right reasons.
Thanks for reading this week's edition of The Manager.
Thanks
Rob..