Leadership In Coaching

July, 24, 2007

"The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on"

Walter Lippmann

Some thoughts about leadership from some people smarter than I , What do you think?

According to Thomas J.Peters and Robert H. Waterman Jr. (In Search of Excellence) We all think we're tops. We're exhuberantly, wildly irrational about ourselves. And that has sweeping implications for organizing. Yet most organizations, we find, take a negative view of their people. They daily berate participants for poor performance...They call for risk taking but punish even tiny failures. They want innovation but kill the spirit of the champion... they design systems that seem calculated to tear down their worksers self-image... The message that comes through so poignantly... is that we like to think of ourselves as winners. The lesson that excellent companies have to teach is that there is no reason why we can't design systems that continually reinforce this notion: most of their people are made to feel that they are winners.

Some pretty interesting thoughts about leadership!

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