Excellence: The Leadership 50

1. Excellence:The Leadership50

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4. bedrock.

5. 1. Leaders …serve.

6. Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

7. The Basic Mechanism.

8. 2. Leadership Is a …Mutual Discovery Process.

9. Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”“The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.”

10. Leaders’ “Mt Everest Test”“free to do his or her absolute best” … “allow its members to discover their greatness.”

11. The Leadership Types.

12. 3.Great Leaders on White Horses Are Important – butGreat Talent Developers(Type I Leadership)are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over the Long Haul.

13. Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!

14. 4. But There Are Times When the “visionary” “Type” (Type II Leadership) Matters!

15. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon

16. 5. Find the “Businesspeople”!(Type III Leadership)

17. I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)

18. 6. All Organizations Need … the Golden Leadership Triangle.

19. The Golden Leadership Triangle:(1) Talent Fanatic … (2) Visionary … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.

20. 7. Leadership Mantra #1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

21. Renaissance Men are … a snare, a myth, a delusion!

22. 8.The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.

23. The Leadership Dance.

24. 9. Leaders …SHOWUP!

25. “A body can pretend to care, but they can’t pretend to be there.”— Texas Bix Bender

26. 10.Leaders …LOVE the MESS!

27. “If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”—Mario Andretti

28. 11. LeadersDO!

29. “We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”— Herb Kelleher

30. 12. Leaders Re-do.

31. Phil Crosby is an idiot!

32. 13.BUT … Leaders KnowWhen to Wait.

33. Tex Schramm: The “too hard” box!

34. 14. Leaders Are … Optimists.

35. Hackneyed but none the less true:LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF FULL.”

36. Half-full Cups:“[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent happiness.” —Lou Cannon

37. 15.LeadersFOCUS!

38. “Dennis, you need a … ‘To-don’t ’ List !”

39. “I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as it so happens, also in writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big things I was trying to get done. Three.Not two. Not four. Not five.Not ten.Three.”— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade

40. “The onething you need to know about sustained individual success: Discover what you don’t like doing and stopdoing it.”—Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know

41. 16.Leaders … Send V-E-R-YClearSignals About What’s Important!

42. “Really Important Stuff”:Roger’s Rule of Three!

43. Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic Initiative Overload)

44. If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

45. 17.Leaders …FORGET!/Leaders …DESTROY!

46. Forget>“Learn”“The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”—Dee Hock

47. “I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious:Buy a very large one and just wait.”—Paul Ormerod, Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics

48. 18.BUT… Leaders Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater.”

49. “Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)

50. 19. Leaders … HONORTHEUSURPERS.