It's not about asserting control or about controlling decision making. It's not about finding blame. Leadership is about getting things done and getting rid of everything else that doesn't. It's about encouraging, enabling and empowering every employee, every worker. It's about reinforcing core values, articulating a vision and then setting people free.
Leadership is about trust.
It's about giving authority back to where it belongs, to the inventors who understand the technology, to the team members whose personal relationship build the business partnerships and to the salespeople who know the customers. Leadership is about responsibility. It's about taking action and accepting the consequences, pursuing innovation and accepting its ramifications, about understanding the human costs of reinvention. At HP we are reinventing ourselves as we focus on the role of technology in transforming business, and everyday life.