The Leadership Scorecard
By Michael Wilkinson
Managing Director, Leadership Strategies
"Okay, Michael, you give a pretty compelling case for the impact of effective leadership. But my leadership team is pretty stuck in the old paradigm. I can just hear one of them now, 'I'm sorry, I don't have time for all this leadership stuff. I've got real work to do.' Help me out here. How do I get my leadership team to focus on leadership?"
That's a problem, isn't it? When the leaders of an organization see little value in "this leadership stuff," what do you do? First, let's be very clear: the number one priority of leaders must be the survival of the organization. And since getting the "real work" done is critical to organization survival, it is quite understandable that leaders would naturally focus first on Level 1 activities such as getting the work done, on-time and within budget. Further, any leader that is struggling with the basics had better get back to the Level 1 basics.
The Levels of Leadership...
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