40. Leaders give everyone a cause.
Maybe I am getting a bit tired of this series but this rule seems so obvious as to be silly. Yet is it?
The other day I was considering the management model of theory X versus theory Y. As a manager myself the first time I took the test I was […]

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What is the complete leader?
This is a model I have been working on for the past 5 years. Essentially the model reflects the simplicity and complexity that is leadership. A leader is not a cookie cutter set of skills and attributes that you collect like boy scout badges.
NO! leadership is a unique combination of attributes, unique […]

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39. Leaders have great stories. I remember a time a few years back when a colleague had said to me, “we don’t tell stories anymore”. This statement cut deeply, he had verbalized angst I had been feeling for some time but not yet committed to words. He was right.Stories are how groups share meaning, share […]

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I finally did it. I signed up on twitter.
I am late to the party to be sure. In this respect it woluld be easy to say I am a follower and that would be true.I decided though that twitter has a purpose for us here at developing leaders. I will not be cluttering up e-space […]

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38. Leadership is a performance.
 
Okay when I first read this rule by Tom Peters I was thinking he was going to discuss performance as in measurable progress against a goal but he took a left turn here. He is talking about a performance as in being on stage. We discussed this very point in […]

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Everyone
Great news! After a grueling 8 months of leading an organization by day, evenings in B school obtaining an MBA and spare time split between family friends and volunteer leadership roles, I am happy to announce that I finished school and am taking the summer off. Well I am still going to lead my organization, […]

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32. Leaders love technology. 
Yup they do. I am writing a blog managing a website sharing what I know about effective leadership. 4 years ago I did not think that “blog” was a word. Actually it wasn’t yet! I carry an I Phone that makes me feel almost ready to get on the bridge of the […]

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31. Leaders honor the assassins in their own organizations. 
I think this rule is a load of crap actually. Maybe it’s the wording but I have no intention of honoring assassins. Again it’s in the wording. I do believe in encouraging those with alternate points of view, those who challenge the system. Heck I am one […]

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30. But leaders have to deliver, so they worry about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. I love Peter’s argument here, the cognitive dissonance between the need for execution order and systems with the need for creative destruction and rebirth. Holding these two opposing needs in one’s mind can be incredibly difficult. A leader must […]

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29. Leaders never get caught fighting the last war. Leaders see around corners. They have the ability to take seemingly random bits of information, to take interactions in the world around them and build from these a picture in their intuition of what the future can hold, should hold. Then they look for evidence to support […]

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