The characteristics listed below are adapted from a blog post by Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter title Five Powers that Get Ideas off the Ground (thanks to Judith Clegg for the pointer). Lists of characteristics like this are useful as reminders of how we should behave and to provide frameworks for self analysis and coaching of others, but they are not exhaustive or prescriptive. There is no shortage of advice floating around these days, including on this blog, and as I’ve been assimilating and dispensing it all over my eleven years in this industry I’ve come to the conclusion that the best approach is to develop a framework for pretty much everything that is important to your line of work and then use that as the basis against which to analyse new advice. Some of it should be rejected, and some of it should cause subtle adjustments to your framework and then occasionally there may be a radical adjustment to the framework, but beware of those. A lot of this process will be subliminal and the more experienced and successful you get the less you should be expecting to adjust your framework.
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Author: Nic Brisbourne
