Great leadership knows how to create a culture where the truth can be told and they can hear what they need to know from their key people. This involves meeting effectiveness, great teamwork and a very high level of trust. This HBR post delivers on all fronts:
“I recently met with a group of managers to discuss ways to improve meetings. Our goal was to figure out how to create a space that people actually look forward to being in. We each began by describing a meeting we remembered as especially powerful.
One story stood out. My colleague told us about a time when he was a young engineer working on several project teams in a manufacturing facility. He said, “Josh, my manager, would take everyone out for pizza when he came to the factory, and we’d have a ‘no secrets’ meeting.”