A style of leadership for me
When you share an unfinished product, you give people a chance to engage with you, that is shared enrollment.
On this day I learned a lesson on altMBA about a style of leadership that worked really well for me.
We were discussing about which idea to pick between two options and while the subject was common, everyone had different definitions and details in their minds.
When I shared the unfinished/half baked work I was doing, everyone could look at one thing and develop from there.
The final result didn’t look any similar to what I was working on my own, but the act of sharing ended up putting everyone in the same page at that time and helped cut time for it to be finished and shipped, because if it doesn’t ship, it doesn’t count.
In other opportunities, because no one did any preparation work for the meeting and I came up with my proposed structure, it helped set the pace of the discussion, creating the first set of boundaries on which topics to discuss and how far to go in each one.
I could direct the discussion sharing this unfinished-pre-made work, rather than only relying on the authority of a management position. I could be a leader before I had the role.
Thanks Prasad for this whole insight. It would take me years to notice this on my own.