"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." John Quincy Adams
So many leaders are worried about the "transactional" side of work; getting the details done correctly, ensuring their staff is working on the right things, answering questions, pointing out where they have made mistakes or missed something, etc. While this can be important, it is so very limiting to creating great results and true sustainability.
So many leaders are worried about the "transactional" side of work; getting the details done correctly, ensuring their staff is working on the right things, answering questions, pointing out where they have made mistakes or missed something, etc. While this can be important, it is so very limiting to creating great results and true sustainability.
Great results happen when leaders create an environment where people are inspired and given the opportunity to grow, create and call forth their best self. Effective leadership means creating context for the organizational direction; translating that context in a way that allows employees to connect it to their work; and creating conditions that both encourage employees to fully engage and allow them to contribute with purpose, to the success of the company.
"Leadership is not magnetic personality. It is not ‘making friends’. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights and raising performance to a higher standard." Peter Drucker
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I like your line of thought. My focus as a leader has always been maximizing the potential of others through empowering, individual consideration and establishing an environment of growth where followers can learn from, but not be penalized by their mistakes. That environment also includes both the leader and follower having a symbiotic relationship where both may learn from each other and the leader facilitates the positive change, while engaging in critical reflection so that he or she may continuously improve. This means that the leader must be willing to share power, display humility and not arrogance and have a moral and ethical foundation so that those behaviors are modeled and emulated by the followers. The leader must also be “other centered” versus “self centered” or none of this will work. There has to be a shared common purpose and a willingness of both the leaders and follower to serve each other and the interests of organizational stakeholders. Certainly, this is hard work, but organizations like Marriott International have figured this out and have reaped the rewards for employees, customers and the organization. Thanks for this opportunity of shared learning.
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