Dan Cable

Trying to put a little more living into life. Organisational Behaviour professor focusing on #Engagement, #Leadership, and #PositivePsychology @LBS

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

Intrapreneurship is more than a hackathon, which can often be theatrical instead of real culture change that catalyses sustained value creation. Thanks @Dlancefield https://t.co/QQHsOm66zZ

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“The pernicious effects of the self-interest theory have been most disturbing…By encouraging us to expect the worst in others it brings out the worst in us: dreading the role of the chump, we are often loath to heed our nobler instincts.”

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

When change is “done to me” it can be debilitating. When I choose the change it can be exhilarating.

[Helen Bevan @HelenBevan]

If people are motivated towards the change in a change process, everything else becomes easier. All the time & effort we invest early in that change process, engaging people, listening & co-producing, pays off later in better, more sustainable change. Trying to short-cut engagement means doing change "to" or "for" people & that's usually a bad move. Graphic: @anafabrega11

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

You might think that impressing your boss means hiding your mistakes and perhaps trying to fix them on your own. But that isn’t true. Learning organizations are ones that accept that not everything will go according to plan—and some of the things that go wrong will be human error

[Elon musk news page @abmarkman]

Do you need to make your boss look good to get a promotion? Yes, but perhaps not for the reasons you think. My latest for @FastCompany.

https://t.co/YGCOAgOcbq

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

@Mr_Crome @Doug_Lemov @Andy__Buck @teacherfeature2 @DavidDidau @MrARobbins @MaryMyatt @Strickomaster @JonnyUttley @johntomsett @tombennett71 @AmyCEdmondson @kimballscott @AdamMGrant @RonFriedman Thank you for caring!

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

This is interesting: “When the economy was warm, executives thought, ‘I’d really like to have people back but it’s OK because I have this margin of error…Now that things are tougher, they want to hunker down and have their people in the office.” Like “RTO for when work matters.”

[Bob Sutton @work_matters]

@emmabgo Emma this tweet and the article are wonderful Rorschach tests! The responses crack me up. The emerging evidence from @I_Am_NickBloom @tsedal and others is bit more nuanced than the black and white assertions.

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“Instead of learning from failures, many executives seek to keep them hidden or to pretend that they were all part of a master plan and no big deal. An extraordinarily valuable corporate resource is being wasted if learning from failures is inhibited.”

[Rita Gunther McGrath @rgmcgrath]

There is still a lot of nonsense floating around about failure. For the record, not all failures are rich in learning and beneficial. Many are outright screwups, and many could have been avoided with more appropriate planning. (1/3)

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?”

[The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings) @brainpickings]

The building blocks of personhood – Oliver Sacks on narrative as the pillar of identity https://t.co/a91TpKw9xR

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

Writing and expression isn’t a contest, but a doorway.

[Alison Cable @alisonecable]

Read on if you’re curious about writing for wellbeing. Midsummer workshops start next week.

https://t.co/UeP3JnKKcV

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

@DDucheyne @LBS Thanks for being there!

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“The mystery of what makes you and your childhood self the same person despite a lifetime of changes is one of the most interesting questions of philosophy.”

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

Still the best thing ever written about the art of growing older https://t.co/5GTEHadGMv

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“Runnin' Down A Dream."

We can’t sit around and wait for someone to drop a dream job in front of us. Instead, like Lin-Manuel, we need to run it down. We need to hire ourselves first.

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

"The more leverage that firms have (in terms of being a destination employer or, in the case of banking, the salary they pay), the more they are insisting on co-ordinated office time." @brucedaisley says it looks like there’s life in the office yet. https://t.co/5YUwkdyHZ5

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

@brucedaisley If only they could see you now! Hopefully wine will still be part of the experience there.

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

This is really cool Rob, thank you for sharing. Is there one key difference that the thrivers are doing the “hardly surviving” are not doing ?

[Rob Baker @BakerRJM]

@DanCable1 So many leaders and managers I am speaking to at the moment feel that they are thriving rather than surviving.

And we need to rethink our expectations of them and their expectations of themselves in terms of whats achievable within the systems and structures they operate.

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

For roughly a century our approach to management was conventionally hierarchical. That made sense because work was organized sequentially and in silos, jobs were fixed, workspaces were physical, and information flowed downward. That’s no longer the case. https://t.co/lPKkkuY8Nx

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

"Recall that before the pandemic those people who stayed at home during the working week were in general considered to be shirking." @lyndagratton https://t.co/mas0mL3dya

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

“Getting packaged as a Cinderalla story is a lagging indicator of many, many years of focus and hard work.”

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

In 2016, Pharrell Williams visited an N.Y.U. music production class to critique student songs.

After he listened to a song called “Alaska” by a student named Maggie Rogers, Pharrell said, “Wow. I have zero, zero, zero notes for that.”

“And I'll tell you why” he said. Because...

“You're doing your own thing. It's singular. It's like when the Wu-Tang Clan came out—no one could really judge it. You either liked it or you didn't, but you couldn't compare it to anything else.

And that is such a special quality, and all of us possess that ability.”

Takeaway 1:

The source of your power, Robert Greene says, is your uniqueness.

We say of genius, as Pharrell said of Rogers' song:

"They're 1 of a kind."

"They're singular."

So are you, Robert likes to point out: No one has ever had your DNA, your experiences, your perspective.

Embrace your uniqueness. Express it in your work.

Takeaway 2:

The video with Pharrell went viral & Maggie Rogers, seemingly overnight, was a pop star.

But…

Rogers started playing music when she was 7. She started songwriting a few years later. In high school, she attended courses at the Berklee College of Music. During her senior year, she recorded her first album, which is what got her accepted to the N.Y.U. music school and the opportunity to play one of her songs in front of Pharrell.

As Rogers later said of the viral video, “My many, many years of focus and hard work got kind of packaged into a Cinderella story.”

Ryan Holiday's line is, "All success is a lagging indicator."

All success is a function of the previous work put in.

“When a day’s writing goes well,” Ryan writes, “it’s a lagging indicator of hours and hours spent researching and thinking…Hitting a personal record on the bench press is a lagging indicator of a lot of discipline and hard work. Receiving a promotion is a lagging indicator of a lot of quality work. Delivering a keynote with confidence is a lagging indicator of a lot of preparation.”

Getting packaged as a Cinderalla story is a lagging indicator of many, many years of focus and hard work.

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“It seems to me that each of us expressing our own originality is the essence of our art and professionalism.” — Jim Henson

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[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

@ReFramesGillian Check out my TED talk, maybe that is a start? https://t.co/xKBRG5c9E0

[Dan Cable @DanCable1]

Wise ++

[Bob Sutton @work_matters]

During a conversation with execs about scaling and friction, a wise leader reported that, when her team is deciding whether to make a change or start a new program, they ask:

"Is the juice worth the squeeze?"

That's my new favorite diagnostic question for many things in life