I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done.

Yesterday - Modern Organization Must Be a Destabilizer

The action point asks when was the last time I created or helped create a new product or service and was it a fresh idea or from someone else. Security is built into every product or service we develop at the company. I build out the security programs that help with this. The last one I’ve built is the phishing program at work. We phish our employees on a monthly basis for practice and metrics. I leaned heavily on Chris Hadnagy’s book Phishing Dark Waters. It gave me the framework for implementing the program. Prior to that I established the vulnerability management program which helped us improve our security posture significantly. That did not fall any current framework. I just started a top 10 riskiest servers and we worked through them. Prior to even that I setup our application security program which was unique in itself. I certainly borrowed best practices and industry standards. The way I went about it was unique.

Today - Human Factor in Management

The action point asks if I’m a great actor in a terrible play. The rest of it talks about human interaction and the need for management to communication and individual responsibility. Making people understand their direction. After the pandemic started I knew communication between the team would be very important because we lost a lot of it not being in the office. I started a daily stand-up to discuss what people got done the last 24 hours and what they plan to do for the next 24 hours. I also started calling my team if I wasn’t in a meeting with them that day. This helped tremendously because I discovered that some of my directs won’t communicate with me unless they hear my voice. Despite having multiple other ways to communicate.