More on leadership results
Yesterday, while Scott Allen and I were talking, he said, “”Bad leaders don’t always produce bad results” — ain’t that the truth! Actually, I’ve worked for a lot of “98% great” leaders really fantastic in a lot of areas, but had one blind spot — one Achilles heel — that got them and in every case, I could tell exactly what it was. In fact, in every case, I told them exactly what it was, but they still didn’t listen.
I’m not a yes-man, and they’d tell me that they appreciated that about me and then ignore my advice.”
Most of us appreciate the kind of sincere information that Scott offered, but when it comes to the advice, we shy from it, mainly because we believe that no external advice on how to plug a hole is as valuable as what we grow organically.
What we tend to ignore is that if we could grow that particular plug organically we probably wouldn’t have a hole there in the first place.
Of course, as I said to Scott, you also have the leaders who are 98% bad, but who are saved by the 2% of luck, brilliance, or blindness in the peanut gallery.
And of those three saving graces, two are cosmic jokes and responsibility for the third rests squarely on the followers.
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1 opinion for More on leadership results
Mark
Sep 8, 2007 at 6:17 am
Really???
“in every case, I could tell exactly what it was. In fact, in every case, I told them exactly what it was, but they still didn’t listen.”
I can tell you precisely why I wouldn’t listen to that…
There wouldn’t be enough room in the same space for my ego and that ego to coexist!
Real leaders aren’t about to take that kind of advice unless it comes from a long-term, trusted source.
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