You have heard these points of view before. Point of view #1: “Everybody can be a leader”. Not true. Everyone works with other people and is dependent on others to achieve results but not everyone is or has the capacity to be a leader. Point of view #2: “Leadership is influence.” Not true. At some… Continue reading How Many Leaders Does One Organization Need?
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Can A Company Become Unleadable?
The consequences of sustained poor or average leadership can have devastating effects on a company, its success, and its employees. We often read about failures of leaders in academic terms (10 Traits Of The Bad Boss, etc.) but to watch in real time how confused or inadequate leadership can destroy the potential of a company… Continue reading Can A Company Become Unleadable?
“That’s On Me” Why Is Accountability Just For the Little People?
One of the indicators of the quality of individual and organizational leadership is how pervasive accountability is in the workplace. Like every other important leadership principle that has become a fad, accountability may be implemented in a genuine way or it may be implemented in a way that shows that leaders apply this characteristic to… Continue reading “That’s On Me” Why Is Accountability Just For the Little People?
Changing A Sick Organizational Culture: The Story Of A Slow Elevator
The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect the guilty. The Organization During my early career I accepted a job with an organization in which the culture can best be described as bureaupathological. How the organization stayed in existence was beyond me. The unit was a training… Continue reading Changing A Sick Organizational Culture: The Story Of A Slow Elevator
What Can We Learn From One Upset Mom In A High Risk Situation?
Both mother AND son — whose filmed confrontation on the edge of the Baltimore riots went viral — are speaking out about what happened and why the teenager, wearing a mask and carrying a brick, was there in the first place. (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/04/30/mother-son-baltimore-protests-confrontation-tv-viral/26628207/) The pictures of the mom in Baltimore are riveting. A mother storms across… Continue reading What Can We Learn From One Upset Mom In A High Risk Situation?
Leadership In Pictures #5 The Myth of The Perfect Leader
This is the last in a five part series entitled Leadership In Pictures. When one reads current leadership articles it often feels like Diogenes roaming the earth searching for the truthful man (or woman). Writers bemoan the fact that they cannot find one person who consistently exhibits sound leadership principles techniques and who applies them… Continue reading Leadership In Pictures #5 The Myth of The Perfect Leader
Leadership In Pictures: The Subtleties of Great Leadership
Great leadership is grossly misunderstood. It is not that there is not enough knowledge about leadership: books, articles and seminars abound. There is just little understanding about what really makes leaders great. The first aspect of greatness was discussed in Drawing #1:Who Leaders Should Be. (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/leadership-series-pictures-drawing-1-doug-wilson?trk=prof-post). Without the character illustrated there, nothing else matters. Building… Continue reading Leadership In Pictures: The Subtleties of Great Leadership
Leadership in A Series of Pictures – Drawing 1
This is the first of several leadership drawings presented for consideration and discussion. Leadership is a very simple yet a very complicated action. The diagram below is designed to illustrate the many ingredients of the “recipe” for great leadership. Just as in cooking, it is the ways these ingredients blend together that create the unique… Continue reading Leadership in A Series of Pictures – Drawing 1
Looking Into The Souls Of Psychopathic Leaders
In her article “7 Things Rich People and Psychopaths Have In Common”, Morgan Quinn reviews multiple studies on psychopathic behaviors. (http://www.reviewjournal.com/business/money/7-things-rich-people-and-psychopaths-have-common). The research Quinn cites in her article is summarized below with a fictitious leadership example (in italics) drawn from multiple real life examples. These examples are placed in the setting of a new leader… Continue reading Looking Into The Souls Of Psychopathic Leaders
An Open Letter to Leaders: You Are Not A Great Leader And Probably Never Will Be
Lets face it. Most of the readers on LinkedIn are searching for the Holy Grail – a leadership secret that will vault them far beyond their competition. (And most writers are offering that magic bullet which they, and they alone, have discovered). Yet leadership greatness is rare and does not come easily or without a… Continue reading An Open Letter to Leaders: You Are Not A Great Leader And Probably Never Will Be