{"id":1743,"date":"2018-10-03T03:49:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:07:51","slug":"newsletter-issue-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canopy.is\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/newsletter-issue-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue 27"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Every few weeks we send a newsletter to our subscribers with the new content we have written, new episodes of our podcast, and other interesting links we\u2019ve found on the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourteam.com\/blog\/newsletter\">Subscribe to our Newsletter here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"a-chat-with-patrick-collison\">From The Heartbeat Podcast:&nbsp;Interview with Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder + CEO of Balsamiq<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/peldi\">Peldi Guilizzoni<\/a>&nbsp;is the Founder and CEO of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/balsamiq.com\/\">Balsamiq<\/a>, a 10-year-old, bootstrapped, $6.3+MM annual revenue company with tens of thousands of customers in 193 countries. In our conversation, Peldi reveals a very counterintuitive lesson he\u2019s learned: Our greatest strengths as leaders often hurt us the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uUEeAEOO5Sw\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/556708536&amp;color=%237000ff&amp;inverse=false&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.knowyourcompany.com\/watch-our-lessons-for-leaders-the-heartbeat-interview-%EF%B8%8F-with-peldi-guilizzoni-founder-ceo-of-a33c7371a133\">Transcript of the interview is here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"latest-reads\">Latest reads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategy-business.com\/article\/The-Four-X-Factors-of-Exceptional-Leaders\">The Four X Factors of Exceptional Leaders<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cThe most difficult aspects of leadership are paradoxes, and executives must embrace them fully, and understand that leadership requires a \u2018both\/and\u2019 skill set.\u201dWritten by David Reimer, Adam Bryant, and Harry Feuerstein, strategy + business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@dunn\/leading-from-joy-vs-leading-from-fear-e29a4247acc4\">Leading from Joy vs. Leading from Fear<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cYes, I succeeded at instilling a fear of failure, but also the dejection and disappointment that comes with it. It was not a catalyst for action and motivation, but rather the opposite. As I did the post mortem on what happened, I realized I was making four huge mistakes as a leader.\u201dWritten by Andy Dunn, Founder of Bonobos<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/experts\/2018\/08\/15\/the-problem-with-popular-employees\/\">The Problem With Popular Employees<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cForty years after the end of high school, those who were once part of the cool crowd get paid 10% more than their socially excluded peers\u2026 Popularity can negatively affect decision-making and lead to suboptimal performance by fueling overconfidence.\u201dWritten by Marissa King, Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/organization\/our-insights\/the-overlooked-essentials-of-employee-well-being\">The Overlooked Essentials of Employee Well-Being<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cStudies going back decades have shown that job control\u2014the amount of discretion employees have to determine what they do and how they do it\u2014has a major impact on their physical health.\u201dWritten by Jeffrey Pfeffer, McKinsey Quarterly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsb.stanford.edu\/insights\/blinding-flash-obvious\">\u201cA Blinding Flash of the Obvious\u201d<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201c\u2018Poor cross-functional coordination and communication is the principal element in the delay of everything,\u2019 Peters says. Internal barriers, not the competitors, are the big impediment to effective execution. Getting functions to stop feuding isn\u2019t enough; they need to actively work together in a spirited, coordinated way.\u201dWritten by Theodore Kinni, Insights by Stanford Business<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"favorite-reads\">Favorite reads<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2016\/08\/putting-a-price-on-people-problems-at-work\">Putting a Price on People Problems at Work<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cIn the course of a day, the executives estimated wasting an average of $7,227.07 per line item per day, for a total of $144,541.30 per day, summing each of the twenty points of waste. That\u2019s an astounding $52,757,574 of lost value and potential per year per organization on people problems.\u201dWritten by Tanya Menon and Leigh Thompson, Harvard Business Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu\/article\/is-it-really-lonely-at-the-top\">Is It Really Lonely at the Top?<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cParticipants in the high-power group reported feeling less lonely and less likely to feel a need to belong than participants in the low-power group or the baseline group. And participants in the low-power group reported feeling more loneliness and a higher need to belong than participants in the other two groups.\u201dBased on the research of Charleen R. Case, Kyle E. Conlon, Jon Maner, Adam Waytz, Eileen Chou, Joe C. Magee and Adam D. Galinsky, Kellogg Insight<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"just-for-fun\">Just for fun<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ideas-joi-ito-robot-overlords\/\">Why Westerners Fear Robots and the Japanese Do Not<\/a><\/strong><br>\u201cThe West, the professor contended, has a problem with the idea of things having spirits and feels that anthropomorphism, the attribution of human-like attributes to things or animals, is childish, primitive, or even bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interview with Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder + CEO of Balsamiq. &#8211; The Four X Factors of Exceptional Leaders. &#8211; The Problem With Popular Employees. &#8211; Is It Really Lonely at the Top?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[109],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.1 (Yoast SEO v22.4) - 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