10 Ways to Feed Your Leadership Power (Next Three)
Published by Doug Murren January 19th, 2007 in Leadership
Seeing the Big Picture: The grand design is the major focus of a leader. Details must be done but great leaders keep the big picture in front of everyone. - Leaders Build Connections: Leaders are mavens. Leaders meet and build relationships and connect all kinds of people. A great deal of a leader’s power comes from whom they are connected to. A leader’s power is enhanced by the different combinations of people they can bring together.
- Leaders spread forgetfulness: Creativity requires forgetting. One must be able to forget past failings, victories etc….to find the creative new. Forgetting is a discipline. The essence of leader power is the will to forget and step on.
Dee Hock founder of VISA “The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get the old ones out."
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Leaders are “mavens” –who uses this word? And is it true?
True leaders I’ve known –don’t presume to know it all –they’re
not eggheads –they’re doers.