There is much talk about building winning teams and how to lead them and much of that centers on “influence” and “visions.”
The ledgendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, an expert on winning teams, provided a far simpler approach that you can be implement in a matter of seconds.
The only caveat is that once started it must be followed exactly and whole-heartedly.
“If anything goes bad, I did it.
If anything goes semi-good, we did it.
If anything goes really good, then you did it.
That’s all it takes to get people to win football games for you.”

If more “leaders” followed this path we wouldn’t …read more

Have you ever thought about what leadership sounds like?
Real leadership makes no noise.
Real leadership goes quietly about its tasks.

Real leadership doesn’t announce itself or blather on about what it plans to do in the future.
Real leadership isn’t a pied piper that mesmerizes you to follow along on its journey.
Real leadership happens every day all around you; it’s done by your colleagues, those you pass on the street and the people in your home.
So the next time you hear leadership be suspicious, be very suspicious.
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Although he may not realize it, web developer Tim Knight speaks for the vast majority of the global workforce in a post entitled Stop Leading Your Team to The Destination, Give Them The Map.
He eloquently explains why leaders who proclaim their visions and then hoard the details have far less chance of success as opposed to those that are introduced, explained, clarified and then embedded in the corporate culture.
Today’s workforce is damn smart and leadagers forget that at their own peril.
One caveat. “Profit” isn’t a valid vision, especially when building it into a culture creates an overarching need to achieve it …read more