{"id":2608,"date":"2014-05-28T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T10:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2014-05-27T16:20:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T15:20:12","slug":"the-2x2-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/the-2x2-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2&#215;2 Holy Grail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/search?q=what+is+a+2x2+matrix&amp;sourceid=ie7&amp;rls=com.microsoft:en-US&amp;ie=utf8&amp;oe=utf8&amp;rlz=&amp;gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=sqqEU5LXN6bR8geNyYHoDA \" rel=\"nofollow\">2&#215;2 matrix <\/a>I am drawn to (and draw on) more than any other.<\/p>\n<p>One that I have heard applied to government ministers, heart surgeons and sports players.<\/p>\n<p>It is described in a number of ways, but it is really the same each time:<br \/>\n\u2022 Technical ability vrs living corporate values<br \/>\n\u2022 Aptitude vrs Attitude \u2013 see <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/philhadridge\/status\/465031160348016641\/photo\/1\" rel=\"nofollow&quot;\">this tweet <\/a>on it<br \/>\n\u2022 Skill vrs will<br \/>\n\u2022 Competence vrs likeability \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/4916.html\">see this<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0and the middle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/fake-compassion-inaction\/\">this<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Secretary of State for health Alan Johnson was described by a few senior officials as a rare minister in the upper right box.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard managers (and sports coaches) say they hire for aptitude and fire for attitude.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen star performers sacked for refusing to budge out of the top left box.<\/p>\n<p>It links to level 4 and 5 leadership in my values framework: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/values\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.idenk.com\/values<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Where are you? Where are your colleagues? Do you feedback on these things to each other? See the third type of feedback <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/3-levels-of-feedback\/ \" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Holy Grail? Certainly the hardest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one 2&#215;2 matrix I am drawn to (and draw on) more than any other. One that I have heard applied to government ministers, heart surgeons and sports players. It is described in a number of ways, but it is really the same each time: \u2022 Technical ability vrs living corporate values \u2022 Aptitude [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159,155,28],"tags":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2625,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}