three takes on leadership: (1) the leadership50; (2) the leadership25; (3) leadershipshort

Three Takes on Leadership: (1) The

Leadership50; (2) The Leadership25;

(3) LeadershipSHORT

#1: L50

The Passion Imperative: The

Leadership50

The Basic Premise.

1. Leadership Is a …

Mutual Discovery Process.

“I don’t know.”

The Leadership

Types.

2. Great Leaders on Snorting

Steeds Are Important – but

Great Talent Developers (Type I

Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over

the Long Haul.

Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!

3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality”

(Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

Napoleon

(+TP’s writing room pics)

4. Find the “Businesspeople”!

(Type III Leadership)

I.P.M. (Inspired Profit

Mechanic)

5. All Organizations

Need the Golden Leadership

Triangle.

The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Talent

Fanatic … (2) Creator-Visionary … (3) Inspired

Profit Mechanic.

6. Leadership Mantra

#1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

Renaissance Men are … a snare, a

myth, a delusion!

7. The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.

The Leadership

Dance.

8. Leaders …

SHOW UP!

“A body can pretend to care, but they

can’t pretend to be there.” — Texas Bix Bender

9. Leaders … LOVE the

MESS!

“I’m not comfortable unless

I’m uncomfortable.”—Jay Chiat

“If things seem under control, you’re just not

going fast enough.”

Mario Andretti

10. Leaders

DO!

The Kotler Doctrine:

1965-1980: R.A.F.(Ready.Aim.Fire.)

1980-1995: R.F.A.(Ready.Fire!Aim.)

1995-????: F.F.F.(Fire!Fire!Fire!)



Triangle.

A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I will gladly sell you for $25,000.”

“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I

give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”

The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single

sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back to the gent.

And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000.

1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.

2. Do them.

Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR

11. Leaders

Re-do.

“If Microsoft is good at anything, it’s avoiding the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft fails constantly.

They’re eviscerated in public for lousy

products. Yet they persist, through version after version, until they get

something good enough. Then they leverage the power they’ve gained in

other markets to enforce their standard.”Seth Godin, Zooming

12. BUT … Leaders

Know When to Wait.

Tex Schramm: The

“too hard” box!

13. Leaders Are …

Optimists.

Hackneyed but none the less

true: LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF

FULL.”

Half-full Cups: “[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent

happiness.”Lou Cannon, George (08.2000)

14. Leaders …

DELIVER!

“Leaders don’t

‘want to’ win.

Leaders ‘need to’ win.”

#49

“When assessing candidates, the first thing I looked for was energy and

enthusiasm for execution. Does she talk about the thrill of getting things

done, the obstacles overcome, the role her people played—or does she keep

wandering back to strategy or philosophy?” —Larry Bossidy,

Honeywell/AlliedSignal, in Execution

15. BUT … Leaders Are

Realists/Leaders Win Through LOGISTICS!

The “Gus Imperative”!

16. Leaders

FOCUS!

“To Don’t ” List

“I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as

it so happens, also in writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big

things I was trying to get done.

Three. Not two. Not four. Not five.

Not ten. Three.”

— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade

You = Your Calendar (Period.)

Calendars do not lie. (Period.)

17. Leaders …

Set CLEAR DESIGN SPECS.

JackWorld/1@T: (1) Neutron Jack. (Banish bureaucracy.) (2) “1, 2 or out” Jack. (Lead or leave.) (3)

“Workout” Jack. (Empowerment,

GE style.) (4) 6-Sigma Jack. (5)

Internet Jack. (Throughout)

TALENT JACK!

18. Leaders …

Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals About

Design Specs!

Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic

Initiative Overload)

If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

19. Leaders …FORGET!/

Leaders … DESTROY!

Forget>“Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative

thoughts into your mind, but how to get the

old ones out.”Dee Hock

20. BUT … Leaders

Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the

Bathwater.”

“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain

Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success

Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)

21. Leaders …

HONOR THE USURPERS.

Saviors-in-Waiting

Disgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers

Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision

22. Leaders Make [Lotsa] Mistakes

– and MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT!

Fail. Forward. Fast. –High-tech Exec

“No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail

better.” —Samuel Beckett



Triangle.

23. Leaders Make …

BIG MISTAKES!

“Reward excellent

failures. Punish mediocre

successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)

Create.

24. Leaders Know that

THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN “LINE EXTENSIONS.” Leaders Love to CREATE NEW

MARKETS.

No one ever made it into the Business Hall of Fame on a record of

“line extensions.”

“Acquisitions are about

buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets.

There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters

25. Leaders … Make Their Mark /

Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters

“I never, ever thought of myself

as a businessman. I was interested in creating

things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson

“To win this race, Kerry needs to stop focusing on Election Day and start

thinking about his would-be presidency’s last day. What does he want his legacy to be? When sixth-graders in the year 2108 read about the Kerry presidency, what does he want the one or two sentences that

accompany his photo to say?” —Kenneth Baer/Washington Post/092604

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the

first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we

intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do

we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller

26. Leaders Push Their

Organizations W-a-y Up the Value-added/

Intellectual Capital Chain

Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”

“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride

through small towns and have people be afraid of him.”

Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership

27. Leaders

LOVE the New Technology!

28. Needed? Type IV Leadership: Technology

Dreamer-True Believer

The Golden Leadership Quadrangle: (1) Talent Fanatic … (2) Creator-

Visionary … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic. (4)

Technology Dreamer-True Believer

Talent.

29. When It Comes to

TALENT … Leaders Always Swing

for the Fences!

30. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:

THEY CREATE LEADERS!

“I start with the premise that the

function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more

followers.” —Ralph Nader

31. Leaders “Win Followers Over”

WHAT AN IDIOT: “Instead of employees being in the driver’s

seat, now we’re in the driver’s seat.”

PJ: “Coaching is winning

players over.”

Passion.

32. Leaders …

Openly Display Their

PASSION!

G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’

”

33. Leaders Know: ENTHUSIASM

BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!

BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”

“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The leader must have infectious optimism. … The final test of a leader is the feeling you

have when you leave his presence after a conference.

Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?” —Field Marshall Bernard

Montgomery

“Make it fun to work at your agency. …

Encourage exuberance. Get rid

of sad dogs who spread gloom.” —David Ogilvy



Triangle.

34. Leaders Are …

in a Hurry

The Urgency Factor: LEADERS … have a distorted

sense of time. (E.g.:

Rummy thinks he asked months ago … it was the day before yesterday.)

35. Leaders Focus on the

SOFT STUFF!

“Soft” Is “Hard”

- ISOE

Message: Leadership is all about love! [Passion, Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life,

Engagement, Commitment, Great Causes & Determination to Make a

Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre Failures, Growth, Insatiable

Appetite for Change.] [Otherwise, why bother? Just read Dilbert. TP’s final words: CYNICISM SUCKS.]

“Ph.D. in leadership. Short course: Make a short list of all

things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to

others. Ever. Make another list of things done to you that you

loved. Do them to others. Always.”

— Dee Hock

The “Job” of Leading.

36. Leaders Know It’s

ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.

TP: If you don’t LOVE SALES … find

another life. (Don’t pretend

you’re a “leader.”) (See TP’s The Project50.)

37. Leaders

LOVE “POLITICS.”

TP: If you don’t LOVE POLITICS … find

another life. (Don’t pretend

you’re a “leader.”)

38. But … Leaders Also

Break a Lot of China

If you’re not pissing people off, you’re not making

a difference!

39. Leaders

Give … RESPECT!

“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He

talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a

bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

Amen!

“What creates trust, in the end, is the leader’s

manifest respect for the followers.” — Jim O’Toole, Leading Change

40. Leaders Say

“Thank You.”

“The two most powerful things

in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.”

Ken Langone, CEO, Invemed Associates [from Ronna Lichtenberg, It’s Not Business, It’s Personal]

“The deepest human need

is the need to be appreciated.”—William James

41. Leaders Are …

Curious.

The Three Most Important Letters …

WHY?


Performance.

“It is necessary for the President to be the

nation’s No. 1 actor.”

FDR

“My life is my

message.”Gandhi

“You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a

horse.” —John Peers, President, Logical

Machine Corporation

43. Leaders … Are The Brand

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Gandhi

44. Leaders …

Have a GREAT STORY!

“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective

communication of a story.”

Howard Gardner Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.

Leaders make meaning. – John Seely Brown

Introspection.

45. Leaders …

Enjoy Leading.

Whoops: “Great speech, Tom, but you missed the most important

point.”

46. Leaders …

KNOW THEMSELVES.

Individuals (would-be leaders) cannot engage in a

liberating mutual discovery process unless they are comfortable with their own skin. (“Leaders” who are not comfortable with themselves become petty

control freaks.)

47. But … Leaders

have MENTORS.

The Gospel According to TP: Upon having the Leadership

Mantle placed upon thine head, thou shalt never hear the unvarnished

truth again!* (*Therefore, thy needs one faithful

compatriot to lay it on with no jelly.)

48. Leaders … Take Breaks.

The End Game.

49. Leaders ???

:

“Leadership is the PROCESS of

ENGAGING PEOPLE in CREATING a LEGACY

of EXCELLENCE.”

“ ‘It’s only business, not personal’ … IT

ALWAYS IS PERSONAL.”

“LEADERS NEED TO BE THE ROCK OF

GIBRALTAR ON ROLLER BLADES”

50. Leaders Know

WHEN TO LEAVE!

#2: L25

The Passion Imperative: The

Leadership25

The Basic Premise.


Mutual Discovery Process.

“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to

get things done.” – Peter Drucker

Quests!

Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman

“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and

members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”

“The best thing a leader can do for a

Great Group is to allow its members to discover their

greatness.”

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“free to do his or her absolute best” …

“allow its members to discover their

greatness.”

The Leadership

Types.

2. Great Leaders on Snorting

Steeds Are Important – but

Great Talent Developers (Type I

Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over

the Long Haul.

3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality”

(Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!

“A leader is a dealer

in hope.”Napoleon

4. Find the “Businesspeople”!

(Type III Leadership)

I.P.M. (Inspired Profit

Mechanic)



Triangle.

The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Talent

Fanatic … (2) Creator-Visionary … (3) Inspired

Profit Mechanic.

The Leadership

Dance.

6. Leaders

DO!

7. Leaders

Re-do.

“If Microsoft is good at anything, it’s avoiding the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft fails constantly.

They’re eviscerated in public for lousy

products. Yet they persist, through version after version, until they get

something good enough. Then they leverage the power they’ve gained in

other markets to enforce their standard.”Seth Godin, Zooming

8. Leaders … LOVE the

MESS!

“I’m not comfortable unless

I’m uncomfortable.”—Jay Chiat

9. Leaders Are …

Optimists.

Hackneyed But None the Less True …

LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF

FULL.”*

*Martin Seligman /Learned Optimism

10. Leaders

FOCUS!

“To Don’t ” List

“I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as

it so happens, also in writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big

things I was trying to get done.

Three. Not two. Not four. Not five.

Not ten. Three.”

— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade

You = Your Calendar (Period.)

Calendars do not lie. (Period.)

11. Leaders …

Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals!

If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

12. Leaders …FORGET!/

Leaders … DESTROY!

Forget>“Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative

thoughts into your mind, but how to get the

old ones out.”Dee Hock

13. BUT … Leaders

Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the

Bathwater.”

“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain

Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success

Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)

14. Leaders Make [Lotsof] Mistakes – and MAKE NO BONES

ABOUT IT!

Fail. Forward. Fast. –High-tech Exec

15. Leaders Make …

BIG MISTAKES!

“Reward excellent



Impact.

16. Leaders … Make Their Mark /

Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters


”

“I never, ever thought of myself

as a businessman. I was interested in creating

things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson

17. Leaders …

Have a GREAT STORY!

Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.

Leaders make meaning. – John Seely Brown

Talent.

18. When It Comes to

TALENT … Leaders Never Compromise!

PARC’s Bob Taylor:

“Connoisseur of Talent”

19. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:

THEY CREATE LEADERS!

“I start with the premise that the

function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more

followers.” —Ralph Nader

20. Leaders

Give … RESPECT!

“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He

talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a

bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

Passion.

21. Leaders …

Openly Display Their

PASSION!

22. Leaders Are …

in a Hurry

“If things seem under control, you’re just

not going fast enough.”—Mario Andretti

The “Job” of Leading.

23. Leaders Know It’s

ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.

TP: If you don’t LOVE SALES … find another life.

(Don’t pretend you’re a “leader.”)

24. Leadership Is

an … Authentic Performance.


Gandhi

“My life is my

message.”Gandhi

25. Leaders … Open the Spigot …

“Beware of the tyranny of making

Small Changes to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big

Things.” —Roger Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo

“You can’t behave in a calm, rational

manner. You’ve got to be out there on

the lunatic fringe.” —

Jack Welch

#3: LShort

Re-imagine Leadership for Totally Screwed-Up Times:

The Passion Imperative.

Start a Crusade!


”

“Beware of the tyranny of making Small

Changes to Small

Things. Rather, make

Big Changes to Big Things.” —Roger Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo

Make It a Grand

Adventure!

“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to

get things done.” – Peter Drucker

Quests!

Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman

“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and

members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”

“The best thing a leader can do for a

Great Group is to allow its members to discover their

greatness.”

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“free to do his or her absolute best” …

“allow its members to discover their

greatness.”

Insist on Speed &

Excellence!

“Reward excellent



Dispense Enthusiasm!


Gandhi

New Economy Biz Degree Programs

MBA (Master of Business Administration) MMM1 (Master of Metaphysical Management)

MMM2 (Master of Metabolic Management)

MGLF (Master of Great Leaps Forward)

MTD (Master of Talent Development)

W/MwGTDw/oC (Guy/Gal Who Gets Things Done without Certificate)

DE (Doctor of Enthusiasm)

15 “Leading” Biz Schools

Design/Core: 0Design/Elective: 1

Creativity/Core: 0Creativity/Elective: 4

Innovation/Core: 0Innovation/Elective: 6

Source: DMI/Summer 2002

Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win? by George Stalk & Rob Lachenauer/HBS Press

“The winners in business have always played hardball.” “Unleash massive and overwhelming force.” “Exploit

anomalies.” “Threaten your competitor’s profit sanctuaries.” “Entice your competitor into retreat.”

Approximately 640 Index entries: Customer/s (service,

retention, loyalty), 4. People (employees, motivation, morale, worker/s), 0.

Innovation (product development, research & development, new products), 0.

“Most executives have no idea how to add value to a

market in the metaphysical world. But

that is what the market will cry out for in the future. There is no

lack of ‘physical’ products to choose between.”

Jesper Kunde, Unique Now ... or Never [on the excellence of Nokia, Nike, Lego, Virgin et al.]

“Strategy meetings held once

or twice a year” to “Strategy meetings needed several

times a week”

Source: New York Times on Meg Whitman/eBay

Have you changed

civilization today?

Source: HP banner ad

“When assessing candidates, the first thing I looked for was energy and

enthusiasm for execution. Does she talk about the thrill of getting things

done, the obstacles overcome, the role her people played—or does she keep

wandering back to strategy or philosophy?” —Larry Bossidy,

Honeywell/AlliedSignal, in Execution

“You can’t behave in a calm, rational

manner. You’ve got to be out there on

the lunatic fringe.” —

Jack Welch

Importance of Success Factors by Various “Gurus”/Estimates by Tom Peters

Strategy Systems Passion Execution Porter 50% 20 15 15

Drucker 35% 30 15 20

Bennis 25% 20 30 25

Peters 15% 20 35 30

“In Tom’s world, it’s always better to try a

swan dive and deliver a

colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the

board while holding your nose.” —Fast Company /October2003

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