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The recent issue of Wired magazine reports on (and some may say glorifies) the rude, authoritarian, my-way-or- the-highway leadership style of Steve Jobs in the article, How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong. So, just like that, after over a decade of management gurus coaching us on how to be coaches instead of [...]
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In my career as an advisor to large organizations and their leaders, I have witnessed many occasions even at the highest levels when silent lies and a lack of closure lead to false decisions. They are “false” because they eventually get undone by unspoken factors and inaction. These instances of indecision share a family resemblance–a misfire in the personal interactions that are supposed to produce results. The people charged with reaching a decision and acting on it fail to connect and engage with one another. Intimidated by the group dynamics of hierarchy and constrained by formality and lack of trust, they speak their lines woodenly and without conviction. Lacking commitment, the people who must carry out the plan don’t act decisively.
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
–Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
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