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Are You A Great Leader If Your Organization Fails?

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Are you a great leader if your organization fails to meet expectations? Or if you aren’t meeting your goals, are you a great leader?

Carmelo Anthony and The Knicks

Today, the Wall Street Journal article Anthony: The Biggest (Playoff) Loser talked about Carmelo Anthony and his poor playoff performance. Carmelo Anthony traded to the New York Knicks NBA basketball team to bring a championship to New York.

Are You A Great Leader If Your Organization Fails?

The article states, “But considering the way Anthony’s teams have performed in the postseason, the Knicks would be lucky to even win a game.” It then explained that Anthony has played 50 career playoff games and has a record of 16-34. His winning percentage of .320 is “the worst of any player who has appeared in that many postseason games since 1991-92.” [Read more…] about Are You A Great Leader If Your Organization Fails?

Maintain Employee Morale Through Consistency

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Have you seen companies that struggle where the CEO still gets a huge bonus? What does that do to employee morale?  Is it fair for the leader to get a bonus when the company is struggling? Think about what you do as the leader and how that effects employee morale.

Do you take all the credit for the work of your employees? Do you give yourself the pay increase when your employees do all the work?  When you determine how you compensate your employees and yourself, pay close attention to how your employees and outsiders will perceive your actions.

Maintain Employee Morale Through Consistency

CEO’s During the Recession

There were a number of companies during the first few years of the recession where the CEO’s and other top management received huge bonuses while their employees suffered, and at times were even laid off. This treatment had a major negative impact on the employee morale at those companies. Employees felt their leaders didn’t care about them. They also felt the leader was in it to get as much money as possible without concern for their employees or the company.

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Go Wide Or Go Deep

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In today’s economic climate there are leaders that have very job specific knowledge, while there are other leaders that have a good overview of the company/organization but are great leaders. Each of these types of leaders has their own areas of expertise. The question is, “Which is more important to have to be successful?”

Go Wide Or Go Deep

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published an article about GE titled, The New GE Way:  Go Deep, Not Wide by Kate Linebaugh. The article explained that new approach that GE is taking with their leadership.

Go Wide

In the past GE had all of their high ranking leaders were to go wide. They would go from one department/location in the company to another on a regular basis. The rotations occurred every few years.

This approach allowed GE to develop their leaders with a broad range of experience. They had experience in many areas of the company, but they didn’t have really specific knowledge in any particular department of the company. Each area of the company had their experts, but the leaders had general knowledge.

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Leadership Lessons From the Iowa Caucus

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As the Iowa caucus came to a close the results were so close that only eight votes separated the top two candidates.  It was the closest presidential GOP contest in U.S. history and Mitt Romney came out as the winner.  The close finish made me ask questions about what factors led to the resulting eight vote difference.  Because it is politics, there were many factors that led to a close finish, but I am going to look at just a few that relate to leadership.

Leadership Lessons From the Iowa Caucus

To understand the leadership implications, we must first look at the background.  In 2008, Mitt Romney was the runner-up in the Iowa republican caucus.  Since then, he has maintained a high level of support with relatively minimal effort.  Because of this support, he did a limited amount of campaigning until the last three weeks prior to the caucus.  On the other hand, Rick Santorum spent a lot of time and effort doing door-to-door campaigning.  Santorum had a lot of people on the ground representing him.   [Read more…] about Leadership Lessons From the Iowa Caucus

Sounds Of Silence

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As the article, “Sounds of Silence”, points out, there are many times when organizations don’t create an environment that is conducive to constructive criticism. What does it take to set up a system that encourages feedback from the employees to the management? What can be put in place within a system to eliminate the system communication barriers? Is it possible to have a strong leadership team within an organization and still be able to have the good communication from the bottom up?Sounds of Silence

The Sounds of Silence

I think that the answer is yes. It is possible to have good communication from the bottom up if the right system features are in place within a system. One system feature that could be put in place to facilitate the communication from the employees to management would be management forums. During the management forums, the employees would be able to ask questions of the middle and upper level management teams. [Read more…] about Sounds Of Silence

Changing Others Through Changing Ourselves

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The article, “Changing Others Through Changing Ourselves”, spoke about the importance of changing yourself before you encourage others to change. I am a strong proponent of changing from within first and foremost. People are always talking about change. People are always trying to change others. It is very easy to find all the faults and mistakes in others while it is more difficult to find areas to change yourself.Changing Others Through Changing Ourselves

Changing Ourselves

Some of the best leaders are the servant leaders. They have a great ability to change first and then expect others to change. I am continually trying to be a better servant leader. A true servant leader does two things. First, they lead by example and change themselves and then they humbly help others to change themselves. [Read more…] about Changing Others Through Changing Ourselves