Top Time Tip #62 What Can We Learn From Gandhi and Genghis Khan?
16th August 2005
Some years ago I presented at a Johnson and Johnson New Leaders Forum in Auckland. One of the other speakers was Mick Yates, at the time a very senior executive with J&J Asia/Pacific. Mick and I have kept in occasional contact since then. He's now back in England and has one of the world's top sites on leadership - www.leader-values.com.
This issue's lead article is an excerpt from his hugely information-rich site. Click through to read the full story, and if you have any interest at all in leadership I encourage you to subscribe to Mick's ezine. I find it a very valuable source of information.
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Leadership in the networked world is the same as it was in the time of Genghis Khan
Leaders .. are always looking for specific things to do 'next Monday' to make things happen. Leadership depends on having a unique vision, making strategic choices, finding the right tools & people to do the job, and designing and enabling an organization to get it done.
Leadership is about understanding people, and about getting people pointing and acting in the same direction. The unique role of a leader is then to provide the energy and commitment to see this job through, and ensuring execution is perfect. Leadership is about listening, and making a real "connect" with others. It is a process.
We call this process the 4 E's of Envision, Enable, Empower & Energize. The framework has been developed by studying historical Leaders (live ones are notoriously difficult to summarize in a complete fashion, as things change so quickly), the current literature, and from personal experience of leading multinational & multicultural organizations across the world.
The framework applies equally to Leadership in different cultural backgrounds - important to Leaders of today's multicultural Enterprises. There is a simple set of fundamental truths about all Leaders.
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Leaders always create (and need) change
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Leaders always create (and need) followers
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Leaders have a rock-solid value system, which is congruent with their followers.
Leaders and Change
Without a need for change, the concept of Leadership is meaningless. Leadership is not an abstract, Platonic concept - it is a practical activity with a specific goal in mind. The situation in India pre-independence almost demanded that someone (like Gandhi) arose to lead and organize the cause....
... read the full story at www.leader-values.com/Content/detail.asp?ContentDetailID=783
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Quotable Quotes
'When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing.' Author Unknown
'Of those who say nothing, few are silent.' Thomas Neiel
'I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.' Author Unknown
'Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.' Wendell Johnson
First seen by me in Kim Chamberlain's 'No Dead Snakes!' Successful Speaking newsletter. www.successfulspeaking.co.nz
From our readers - More on stopping unwanted materials at source:
From Ian Webb and Marilyn Chaseling in Australia.
In Australia get off junk snail mail and junk email lists for a number of distributors at the ADMA site - www.adma.com.au Register your details on the Consumer 'Do Not Contact' Opt Out Service. Including yourself on this list will ensure that you are not contacted by 500 members of the Australian Direct Marketing Association. These members include banks, insurance companies, publishers, catalogue and mail order companies and charities who contact consumers via mail, telephone, direct response television, the internet and mobile phones. Ian Webb
The ADMA site says that, after you have registered, it takes about 6 weeks for the number of junk contacts to minimize. I registered in April and have noticed a sharp decrease in the number I've receive (e.g. no more phone calls trying to sell me items!). Marilyn Chaseling.
Also from Ian: A friend of mine once had the junk mail problem with a particular organisation. They ignored his repeated requests for removal from their distribution lists. In one of their mailings they included a 'Reply Paid' envelope option to express interest.
Knowing that mail costs are influenced by weight he showed his level of interest by Reply Paying with a brick attached to the envelope (I think with an angry note indicating the brick represented their 'thick' level of thinking). Strangely enough he never received junk mail from them again!
Thanks Ian. I can see the faces at the recalcitrant organisation!
All the best 'til next time
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