The chief executive says when people fail to get a promotion, they are often told they are doing a good job and should continue along the same path. He reckons that advice is “BS”.
Already a subscriber?Deloitte chief executive Adam Powick failed to make partner twice before he finally secured the coveted position. And the first time he applied to be the CEO, he missed out.What is key though, is what he learnt from the experiences.“If someone tells you that you’re doing fine, and you don’t need to do anything else, that is the worst possible piece of feedback you can ever get,” Powick says.
Then clients this afternoon, will have another partner presentation in Sydney later on today and then see some global leaders and jump on the last flight home back to Melbourne tonight, getting home, at 10.30, 11pm… that’s a day. And I said, I need time to think. From day one, I told all my partners and everybody knows they don’t get a meeting before midday on a Monday so that I can think, prepare for the week and make sure I hit the week running by the time things start.And are you tempted to do that on other days of the week to build in even more thinking time, or is that sufficient?And are you a breakfast kind of guy?
Choosing words that actually help frame your focus and your mindset as you go into a forum, so it’s appropriate for that.There are times to muck around and have a joke and have a beer, but there are other times when you need to put on a different leadership persona. I’m learning more and more. I think this is transformative. This is where this technology gets real. All of a sudden, you democratise it, it gets in the hands of users like us. So I’m using it for a whole range of things right now, and I’m learning it is a huge boon to productivity. I use it to research at the moment, mainly just do research on different topics and find me sources and give me different perspectives.Yeah, more sophisticated, though.
Presumably your mind must wander off into work-related areas, how do you control your mind to make sure you do stay present all the time?It’s the reason I can stay with the conversation when my mind’s moving ahead at a hundred miles an hour in a whole range of different directions. So I doodle.
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