Leader + manager = leadager (part 2)
by Miki SaxonYesterday KG said, “Good managers have processes and techniques that they implement to get people to work. Leaders inspire.
“I replied “inspiring means taking chances and requires a culture that doesn’t just tolerate stumbles and failures, but actually encourages them. Without that safety people won’t take chances with a vision but will stick to the status quo.”
What makes that culture so hard to come by?
At least part of the answer is found in comments by Tony Palazzo in a post from Steve Roesler.
Palazzo thinks that “leadership is demonstrated when someone stands up and says, “We can do this better. Here’s how. Let’s go!”
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Palazzo continues, “The gods of Finance are setting the rules for how business will be done. Shareholder value is now the end product. Standing up and taking the lead in your area of discipline is a risk that is not only not rewarded, it may get you into trouble if the “Finance Guy” doesn’t like it–or doesn’t understand it.”
I’ve always told my clients that corporate success is like a 3-legged stool—customers, equity-holders, employees—and that if one leg grows too long from over-indulgence the stool will tip over.
Great philosophy, but the reality today in most public companies is that Wall Street and quarterly results are what really matters.
And that reality is driving a risk-adverse, color-inside-the-lines mentality in which vision and leadership have no place. Worse is the vicious circle that forms—the person brought in to lead has a vision, but the vision isn’t fast enough so the person is dumped and another brought in and each successive round plays it safer and safer.
Please join me tomorrow for the final part of Leader + manager = leadager.
How can more companies be encouraged to take the risks that lead to innovation?
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