Leading in Totally Screwed Up Times: The Leadership 50 Tom Peters/ALA/31October 2001

1. Leading in Totally Screwed Up Times: TheLeadership50Tom Peters/ALA/31October 2001

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3. “There will be more confusion in the business world in the next decadethan in any decade in history. And the current pace of change will only accelerate.”Steve Case

4. Uncertainty: We don’t know when things will get back to normal.Ambiguity: We no longer know what “normal” means.

5. BMcC: (1) Hierarchy vs. “Network organization.” (2) NWO = “Doctrine as center of gravity”/source of motivation; distributed support & decision-making;largely self-organizing; “outside the military sphere.”

6. “Our military structure today is essentially one developed and designed by Napoleon.”Admiral Bill Owens, former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

7. From: Weapon v. WeaponTo:Org structure v. Org structure

8. The Leadership50

9. 1.Leaders Cede Control.

10. “I don’t know.”

11. Leaders-Teachers Do Not “Transform People”!Instead leaders-mentors-teachers (1) provide a context which is marked by (2) access to a luxuriant portfolio of meaningful opportunities(projects) which (3) allow people to fully (and safely, mostly—caveat: “they” don’t engage unless they’re “mad about something”) express their innate curiosity and (4) engage in a vigorous discovery voyage(alone and in small teams, assisted by an extensive self-constructed network) by which those people (5) go to-create places they(and their mentors-teachers-leaders)had never dreamed existed—and then the leaders-mentors-teachers (6) applaud like hell, stage “photo-ops,” and ring the church bells 100 times to commemorate the bravery of their “followers’ ” explorations!

12. 2.Great Leaders on Snorting Steeds Are Important – butGreat Talent Developers(Type I Leadership)are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over the Long Haul.

13. Model24/7:Sports Franchise GM

14. P.S.: Jack didn’t have a vision!

15. 3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality” (Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!

16. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”Napoleon

17. 4. Find the “Businesspeople”! (Type III Leadership)

18. I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)

19. 5. Leadership Mantra #1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

20. Renaissance Men are … a snare, a myth, a delusion!

21. 6.The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.

22. 33 Division Titles. 26 League Pennants. 14 World Series: Earl Weaver—0. Tom Kelly—0. Jim Leyland—0. Walter Alston—1AB. Tony LaRussa—132 games, 6 seasons. Tommy Lasorda—P, 26 games. Sparky Anderson—1 season.

23. 7.LeadersLOVE the MESS!

24. “If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”Mario Andretti

25. 8. LeadersDO!

26. 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!)

27. 9.BUT … Leaders KnowWhen to Wait.

28. Tex Schramm: The “too hard” box!

29. 10. Leaders Are Optimists.

30. Half-full Cups:“[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent happiness.”Lou Cannon, George (08.2000)

31. 11.BUT … Leaders Are Realists/Leaders Win Through LOGISTICS!

32. The “Gus Imperative”!

33. 12. LeadersFOCUS!

34. “ToDon’t”List

35. 13. Leaders Trust in TRUST!

36. Credibility!

37. 14. Leaders Know … Women Roar/ WomenRule.

38. “AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers outshine their male counterparts in almost every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00

39. Women’s Strengths: Link [rather than rank] workers; favor interactive-collaborative leadership style [empowerment > top-down decision making]; sustain fruitful collaborations; comfortable with sharing information; see redistribution of power as victory, not surrender; favor multi-dimensional feedback; value interpersonal & technical skills, group & individual contributions equally; readily accept ambiguity; honor intuition as well as pure “rationality”; inherently flexible; appreciate cultural diversitySource: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

40. “Boys are trained in a way that will make them irrelevant.”Phil Slater

41. 15. Leaders LOVERAINBOWS – for Pragmatic Reasons.

42. “Diversity defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century. Mighty is the mongrel. … The hybrid is hip. The impure, the mélange, the adulterated, the blemished, the rough, the black-and-blue, the mix-and-match – these people are inheriting the earth. Mixing is the new norm. Mixing trumps isolation. It spawns creativity, nourishes the human spirit, spurs economic growth and empowers nations.”G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge

43. 16.LeadersFORGET!/LeadersDESTROY!

44. 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

45. “Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.”Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma

46. 17.BUT … Leaders Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater.”

47. “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)

48. 18. Leaders … HONORTHEUSURPERS.

49. Saviors-in-WaitingDisgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe SuppliersWayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees

50. 19. Leaders HANGOUTWITHFREAKS!