Book Summary – The Making of a Manager
The book works as a great manual for managers, with many codified set of best practices. A must read if you want to become a better manager.
Category: Career
Focus Management vs. Our Work Areas
The intersection of our focus management abilities and the number of areas we manage in our work reveals different outcomes.
Chief of Staff — a role akin to playing an infinite game
A CoS role is like playing an infinite game — where the purpose goes beyond winning, to continue the play, and derive the benefits of learning, exposure, and intellectual capital in the process.
The 4 relationships that matter to a Chief of Staff
A CoS must build productive (long-term) relationships with the important people in the Executive’s network who all contribute to the success of the Executive.
Book Summary – Range
Range argues that experimentation with multiple disciplines, early on, leads to better success and career excellence than specialization.
The 3 things they don’t tell you about a Chief of Staff role
To be successful as a CoS, a CoS has to discover 3 significant things about himself/herself.
Chief of Staff – The 2nd Brain of the Executive
A good CoS excels in the role by dynamically deploying 3 main powers – Mindsets, Attributes and Skills.
Who exactly is a ‘Chief of Staff’?
I have been in a Chief of Staff role (abbreviated as CoS) since the last 1.5 years. A lot of people ask me — “so what exactly do you do?”.…