Leaders Stage Revolutions First, you never announce that you re launching a change agenda. The legacy I want to leave is helping people understand that sometimes it s really good if people aren t like you. There are different packages that work, and different styles that work. They tell stories about their pasts that explain their learning experiences and their beliefs. As leaders, we do not set the goals high enough for our people.
Leadership is salesmanship.
Getting people to say, C mon, we can do this. The basis of leadership is the capacity of the leader to change the mindset, the framework of others. It s possible to build an organization that succeeds, at least for a while, without developing leadership in others. Companies that win most often are the ones whose leaders invest the time and energy to develop other leaders. To develop teachable points of view, leaders think about their experiences, draw lessons from what they know and then figure out how to share those lessons with others Leadership is more about thinking, judging, acting and motivating than about strategies, methodologies and tools.