Municipal Leaders: Develop Faster, Lead Stronger, Build Better
Every week, you’ll get insights and actionable steps to help you navigate personal growth and professional success.
Reed Hastings built one of the most studied organizational cultures in the world, not by adding more rules, but by systematically removing them.
His book No Rules Rules, co-authored with INSEAD professor Erin Meyer, tells the story of how Netflix reinvented itself four times over by building a culture rooted in three principles: talent density, radical candor, and leading with context instead of control.
This week in the MLDC (the Municipal Leadership Development Circle), I’m unpacking all three and making the case for why they matter more in local government than most leaders assume.
Here’s the question the book keeps pushing: within your own sphere of influence, are you leading with trust or with control? Are you building the kind of team where people bring you their best thinking or the kind where they tell you what they think you want to hear?
Those aren’t Silicon Valley questions. They’re leadership fundamentals. And they apply in every city hall, county building, and public agency in the country.
The MLDC is a community of city managers, county administrators, and department heads from across the country who are doing this work together…reading, discussing, and applying the best leadership thinking to the unique realities of local government. Daily content, a full resource library, and a peer community that understands the world you’re operating in.
Our three-month culture series is one of the most substantial things we’ve built inside the MLDC. And it continues this week.
Join us at HaltingWinter.com/MLDC.
The Municipal Leadership Development Circle (MLDC) is a professional growth community exclusively for city/county managers, administrators, and local government leaders. Each week, we explore insights from transformative books and apply them specifically to the unique challenges of municipal leadership. Join Seth Winterhalter, President of HaltingWinter Municipal Solutions, and leaders from across North America to build stronger cities through stronger leaders. Learn more at HaltingWinter.com/MLDC.
