Founder connections
- Ed CatmullForeword authorCatmull wrote the foreword on leaders' blind spots, the effects of their conduct and learning from team feedback. The full book is by Anderson and Adams. His contribution does not establish completed reading; it appears in the checked 2019 edition.Source
Summary
Robert J. Anderson and William A. Adams examine how an organization's growth can expose limits in the way its leaders work. The book uses senior leaders' descriptions of other leaders to compare strengths, weaknesses and patterns that help or hinder a larger organization. Its framework distinguishes creative leadership from reactive habits that can reduce the value of a person's strengths.
The authors connect individual development to the wider task of developing other leaders. Chapters consider feedback, relationships, the balance of strengths and liabilities, and practices for changing behavior. Ed Catmull's foreword discusses the difficulty of seeing a leader's own effects on a team and the need to learn from other people's experience of the workplace.
Why read it Our view
Use the book to review which decisions still depend on you and how your conduct affects the people who must make them. Seek feedback from those people before deciding which leadership habit to change or which responsibility to share.