Salvation by Society

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

The action point is that the human resource department is not responsible for taking care of me. I am responsible. Coincidentally this came up in many forms for me today. I had asked to do some DiSC assessments and training for my team. I got back that I need to do another HR sponsored program. I’ve done the training and wasn’t exactly thrilled about it. DiSC is a pretty well known standard and something that I’ve read in multiple places will help me become a better manager. It’s something I’ll continue to push for because I believe it’s the right path for me as a manager and my team as contributors.

Another thing today is that I got a notification that my new hire had passed all his initial HR screenings, drug screening and background check. I had a welcome thing to fill out and that’s about it for on-boarding my new person outside of doing the paperwork on the start date. I take it a little further and have a 217 step checklist I run through with the new hire. This is from the offer all the way to 3-6 months past the start date. I want to get my people as productive as possible and this checklist helps with that. It’s not something that HR has.

Living Without Restriction

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Getting off work today, I really wanted to have a drink. It was a long day with good ups and downs. I’m trying to cut back though and not allow alcohol to be my release because that usually leads to bad things. That could be restricting in itself. Maybe freedom is a lie. I often ask why not because it’s not a bad thing. It’s just bad when I overindulge. Often I overindulge because I’m trying to blow off steam. That can backfire. Other times it can work out just fine. Then again that may be the reasoning within my own head to continue doing habits I’ve formed over the last few years. I would like to feel like I’m in control a bit more.

Demands on Political Leadership

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

The action point is to seek out the most competent people in the organization not necessarily those with the most charisma. This is an interesting exercise because it puts into question who I think is competent and who is charismatic. I feel like I get along with competent people. I’m drawn to them because I’ve seen the value in building relationships with those people. They help me get results and I them.

Find Yourself A Cato

I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.

I think the daily stoics are becoming my Cato. They help me reel in some of my emotions and thoughts. They’re comforting and provide me an outlet to become a better person.

The Daily Drucker

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

Yesterday - Role of the Bystander

The action point is be a bystander and look at what needs to be done in an organization from a different angle. Then I act and that may shock people. I’ve never been opposed to bring forth or try an idea. I don’t know if I shock people. I will do things in ways outside the norm, either as an experiment or as something that I know needs to be done. I often find people unwilling to listen. That’s okay because as long as I get results I’ll start to get more people listening.

Today - The Nature of Freedom

The action point is to list specific goals for my work. What goals will meet my personal fulfillment. Within security our goals are usually identifying risk and securing our environment. We made some acquisitions recently and those are taking up a lot of our effort and time. For me I like some of the chaos. My goals are to make my team better and get more out of them. As they grow as professionals they should learn to do thinks more efficiently and effectively.

My personal goals largely revolve around security awareness. We run the phishing program and I give regular lunch and learns to the company for improving security mindsets. My leadership has always supported me in this. Prior to the pandemic I was provided a budget for supplying food at these lunch and learns. The presentations provide people a view and some insight into the security world. This helps them be more security minded in their day-to-day jobs.