The Tenacious Operator

Adam Malone Why Tenacity? Dispatch 001 Read this online The ability to thrive through recurring struggles is a complex function of outlook, values, and ingenuity. This attribute of resilience, tenacity and grit is emerging as the enabler of long term, sustained achievement. Succinctly put: Personal strength is paramount to individual success. For Leaders though this is not wholly a personal trait. We must model this trait for the team - taking in, absorbing & dampening shock. Long term...

Adam Malone Curiosity is Infinitely Scalable Dispatch 014 Read This Dispatch Online Me: “I think you have ability to be the successor for your Sr Director, and he agrees.” Him: “I don’t think that’s possible, I don’t know enough” Me: “You have worked in every part of the department for over 10 years and built half the processes. What else could you need to know?” Him: “I’m not as smart as he is. He always knows exactly what the team needs and what the right answer is to basically everything....

Adam Malone Radical Candor Dispatch 013 Read This Dispatch Online The Rebuild: Restoring Trust in Toxic Times On December 5th I'm hosting a free Masterclass about rebuilding trust. During the time I'll share proven strategies for developing trust despite toxic & stressful time. Learn More About the Masterclass Navigating the tricky waters of workplace communication is the professional equivalent of walking a tightrope. On one side, fall to your death by being brutally honest. On the side you...

Adam Malone Better Feedback, Better Team Dispatch 012 Read This Dispatch Online The Rebuild: Restoring Trust in Toxic Times On December 5th I'm hosting a free Masterclass about rebuilding trust. During the time I'll share proven strategies for developing trust despite toxic & stressful time. Learn More About the Masterclass Are you good at providing feedback? Does your feedback lead to change? Is your feedback appreciated? Do you feel like you're saying the same thing over...and over...? Does...

Adam Malone Structure Isn't Overrated Dispatch 011 Read This Dispatch Online The Leadership Ascent Growing into a Leadership role requires a new mindset, a breadth of skills, and demonstrated capability. This program builds soft skills, executive presence, financial acumen and practical tools to become a Great Leader of an empowered team. The next group starts in January. Interested to Learn More? To build better, stronger teams we have to embrace that it's our role to improve the likelihood...

Adam Malone AI isn't Skynet Dispatch 010 Read This Dispatch Online The Leadership Ascent Growing into a Leadership role requires a new mindset, a breadth of skills, and demonstrated capability. This program builds soft skills, executive presence, financial acumen and practical tools to become a Great Leader of an empowered team. The next group starts in January. Interested to Learn More? Terminator 2 was just about the height of cinema for this 80s baby. It was my first R rated movie, and the...

Adam Malone It's Halloween, but Not a Witch Hunt Dispatch 009 The Leadership Ascent Growing into a Leadership role requires a new mindset, a breadth of skills, and demonstrated capability. This program builds soft skills, executive presence, financial acumen and practical tools to become a Great Leader of an empowered team. The next group starts in January. Interested to Learn More? Read This Dispatch Online Frustration. Disappointment. Confusion. A touch of anger. Emotions welling up inside...

Adam Malone You're Better Than Blockbuster Dispatch 008 Read This Dispatch Online The Leadership Ascent Growing into a Leadership role requires a new mindset, a breadth of skills, and demonstrated capability. This program builds soft skills, executive presence, financial acumen and practical tools to become a Great Leader of an empowered team. The next group starts in January. Interested to Learn More? Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix for $50M in 2000.10 years later Blockbuster...

Adam Malone Inspiration in the Dairy Aisle Dispatch 007 Read This Dispatch Online Toyota Motor Corporation’s unlikely start began in 1926 as the Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. After a national naming competition Toyoda would be renamed Toyota Motor, and would build itself into the envy of manufacturers around the world. A result of necessity, not design. Post World War Two, the Japanese economy was in shambles. Manufacturers like Toyota were trying to rebuild a nation while competing with...