The doors fly open and five fighter pilots, men and women dressed in military uniforms, come storming into the room looking for Mr. Jones. Please help me move all of your people to our main briefing room down the hall. Let's have them in their seats with a pen and pencil, ready for a briefing in five minutes. With a start like that, everyone is excited and curious about what is happening. They will expect to gather in a general meeting room, but instead they will enter into a true military briefing room.
Leadership is the secret ingredient in every successful organization.
And the obvious deficiency in most every failed one. But-as important as leadership is, it is, in all candor, as slippery a concept as it is vital. Everyone, it seems, has either a definition of leadership or a prescription for it. Now, let's be honest. That description of leadership is as hard to realize as it is simple to say.