

1557: Leadership Standard Operating Procedures with Edward Tyson
Jun 22, 2022
Edward Tyson, a speaker, bestselling author, and veteran of the U.S. Marines, shares his expertise on creating leadership standard operating procedures. He highlights the significance of systems in building sustainable organizations. Drawing from his military experience, he explains SCOPE and how to foster willing and capable teams. Tyson emphasizes the role of repetition in establishing trust and offers practical advice through his PACE framework, ensuring continuous improvement and community engagement.
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Lead Through Communities Of Effort
- Leadership SOPs focus on three goals: structure, operate, and perfect powerful communities of effort.
- Leading is about organizing willing, capable, and sustainable teams to achieve objectives you cannot do alone.
Three Criteria For Team Success
- A community of effort must be willing, capable, and sustainable for leadership to work.
- If any of those fail you either coerce, fail execution, or drive people to burnout and collapse.
Structure Is More Than An Org Chart
- Structure means broader organizational design, not just an org chart, beginning with scope.
- Scope includes strategy, culture, objectives, purpose, and ecosystem to guide design choices.