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LEADERSHIP: AVOIDING BLACK-SWAN DISEASE

published:2010-07-26 01:00:00

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best-selling economist and author of The Black Swan, is famous for his arresting insights. His recent postscript to The Black Swan is no exception: presenting ten lessons from the Global Financial Crisis. Above all, he recommends learning from “Mother Nature” – by making our

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LEADERSHIP: FOR SUCCESS – AND HAPPINESS

published:2010-07-19 01:00:00

Like Professor Clayton Christensen, I’ve faced a life threatening cancer and found it a crucible for clarifying my thinking about what’s important. The day

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LEADERSHIP: TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT - BUT HOW?

published:2010-07-13 01:00:00

Due to a backlog of new registrations to work through this Potshot has been delayed by a day. Our apology to our regular readers

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LEADERSHIP: THAT ONE KEY LESSON

published:2010-07-07 01:00:00

How do you rate yourself on the following five actions? Showing self-awareness?. Demonstrating authenticity, integrity and compassion? Understanding and engaging people as

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LEADERSHIP: STOP THE HUMAN SACRIFICES

Bind your people to you - based on trust in your response to their concerns and needs
Don't lead as you've led everyone in the past - ignoring the specifics of today and this team

As a king, commander or leader in Ancient Greece, you'd sacrifice an animal before a major journey, battle or personal undertaking.  And, perhaps visit the priests and oracle at Delphi.  But today, decision-making is mostly more rigorous and analytical.  Planning replaces hoping.  But, not in leadership.  Many leaders still base their actions on oracular generalisations from gurus - or acolyte consultants.  And this involves human sacrifice.  Their team members may not be dead physically, but they are organisationally: frustrated, unmotivated and unfulfilled.  Sound familiar - for you as a follower or as a leader?  So, who are the sacrificial lambs in your organisation?  And, what can be done?

Well, here's a start.  Put yourself in the shoes of your people - and take this test.
  • Which TWO questions below would THEY say best sum up the concerns or worries holding them back?
Or, to think it through another way ...
  • Which TWO organisational outcomes (that would emerge if you answered their questions) would THEY say are most absent from your leadership today?

Make sure you answer from their perspective.  Otherwise, you're still lost in a world of barbarism and human sacrifice!

FOLLOWER QUESTIONS - ORGANISATIONAL OUTCOMES
1. Where are we going; and, why? - Goal Alignment
2. Can we do it? - Organisational Will
3. How should we behave? - Constructive Values
4. What output is required? - Operating Standards
5. Where and how do we all fit in? - Teams and Relationships
6. What if our world erupts? - Learning and Reinventing
If you've identified their two priority questions and the related organisational outcomes, you've taken the first step in making a plan.  The next is to identify potential actions that YOU SHOULD TAKE (to start answering their questions).  And finally, convert these into action commitments - adding the what, with whom and when.  Just like any business plan.

It's not that difficult but few leaders do it.  And that's the gap V|E|C|T|O|R fills.  It's a proven tool, and now online - and inexpensive: a big business tool @ at small business price.  It certainly beats being hauled in front of a judge - accused of human sacrifice!

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Create goal alignment, Lift organisational will, Establish constructive values, Set operating standards, Build teams and relationships, Foster learning and reinventing, Understanding V|E|C|T|O|R,



Dr. Timothy Pascoe AM
PhD (Cambridge), MBA (Harvard), BE & BEc (Adelaide)
Creator, V|E|C|T|O|R Leadership®

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