Where do you get your power as a leader?
My favorite definition of leadership, which has been widely attributed, is “the ability to get others (to want) to do what you think needs to be done.” I inserted the parenthesis, because the best leaders inspire us to be committed to a particular course of action - [...]
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In yesterday’s post Teamwork or Guesswork, I discussed the differences between teamwork and guesswork.
While fostering teamwork isn’t automatic or easy, it is possible to create conditions where people will rally around a goal, work cooperatively and efficiently to accomplish that goal, and achieve far better results than any other method could yield. Leaders who want [...]
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Alex was asked to lead a team which would develop a sensitive recommendation on whether to consolidate two facilities into one.
The first meeting had been scheduled to begin ten minutes ago and five of the seven new team members were gathered in a conference room. One or two were on their cell phones, a pair [...]
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