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  • 1.  Characterizing leadership and leaders

    Posted 07-14-2002 18:36
    Colleagues,

    George Graen wrote, " If you seek to be seen as a leader in your
    organization, build, inherit or fall into a well developed partnership
    network."

    By your note, George, I would conclude that relationships are the key to
    leadership. Or perhaps more conservatively, that leaders succeed in large
    part by developing relationships.

    A few years ago, I consulted for British Petroleum, in their internal
    technology group. They asked me to find out how their customers (inside BP)
    chose their service providers. I did the required market research, and drew
    the following figure:

    Relationships
    >> <<
    >> >>
    Trust Opportunities
    << <<
    << <<
    Performance

    At the time, I didn't think much about it. Later, I had to write a whole
    book about it. I call this "the basic opportunity system". Simply stated,
    it says that:
    Relationships deliver opportunities.
    Opportunities enable relationships.

    If we don't "do" relationships, we find ourselves without opportunities.
    Now George would say, we also find ourselves without followers.

    I must agree. It seems my system for marketing is a system for leadership.
    Fascinating.

    Thanks George.
    ----------------------------
    Pre-planning accelerates planning accelerates performance.
    Strategic Pre-planning (Rich Visioning)
    Adaptive Planning (Businesses, products)
    Precise Performance (Strategies, tactics)
    Leadership accelerates management accelerates operations.

    Gary Lundquist - The Accelerator
    303-840-9929 www.market-engineering.com
    garyl@market-engineering.com


  • 2.  Characterizing leadership and leaders

    Posted 07-16-2002 13:40
    From: Mike Kiska [mailto:mkiska@jefferson.lib.co.us]

    ...delurking.

    Bravo Phillip Rutherford !!!!!
    I wasn't too sure about all the verbiage regarding leaders/leadership in
    this thread but you have clearly described (tongue in cheek or not) the
    people I've worked for over my 30 year career - the last 15 or so
    training
    managers in something called "frontline leadership". And I'm still
    chuckling 24 hours later.

    Still, M. Guillemette's idea that leaders may be more easily
    characterized
    by a constellation of temperamental traits is intriguing. And maybe a
    successful study in this realm leads us to more helpful conclusions
    about
    leadership.

    ref: assorted works on temperament and development by Alexander Thomas
    and
    Stella Chess

    By the way, this seems to be the most commented upon topic in my
    couple-of-years lurking on this list, No?

    ...resume "lurk" mode.

    Mike Kiska
    Training & O.D. Manager - Administrative Services
    Jefferson County Public Library System

    Find us on the Web: http://jefferson.lib.co.us