Cheers and many thanks for a thought-provoking article. Tom, Your 50 Rules For Leadership article in the March 2001 edition of Fast Company was inspiring. Everytime I feel myself avoiding something, I think of that. I want to thank you for the opportunity to send you my thoughts on Leadership. I am really interested in this topic and I enjoy your perspective.
Leaders build it for others to live in it.
Hi Tom, 49. Leaders are living individuals whom employees can smell, feel, touch their presence, and talk to, regardless of the organization charts. Therefore, I would strongly suggest that leaders are humans after all and employees, too, so that there should be natural relationships regardless of the organization charts. If leaders greet, meet, and talk to employees in any situation, it constitutes natural commitment and respect that strategies set forth by the leaders can be transmitted through informal situations, too. Not through emails, town hall, or beautiful murals across the hallway.