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If you're
the leader you need to realise its not about you. Its about building a
team and recruiting and keeping the best players.
Everything
you do sets an example
A leader
can't build trust without transparency, and a team without trust won't win.
Jack
Welch
Strategy is
not about aspiration, action, deals, importance, vision, mission ....
Strategy is what makes you unique, gives you a distinct competitive advantage,
provides direction, builds brand reputation, sets the right goals, adds
superior performance, defines a market position and creates a unique value
proposition.
Michael
Porter
Our aim is
to build a challenge that can win for New Zealand and we can be proud of - to
succeed in all aspects! We want a small informed and fully motivated team
that:
-
works in an environment which encourages every member to make a meaningful
contribution
- has
a high degree of personal integrity and group honesty
-
recognises personal goals but not hidden agendas
-
continuously monitors and improves its performance
- is
fun to be in
Team
New Zealand Vision 1993
(the
vision which produced an outstanding result - shame the vision couldn't be
held in subsequent America Cups)
Perhaps the
true leader of a team is one who brings out the leadership qualities in each of
the members of the team.
P
Mazany
Group
Emotional Intelligence - it is not about harmony, lack of tension and all
members liking each other. It is about acknowledging when harmony is
false, tension is unexpressed and treating others with respect
VU
Druskat & SB Wolf
I
needed IBM to listen more to our customers and stop telling them
"This is what you want". I needed IBM to work more as a
team. The culture inside IBM was one of individualism and invention,
not customer listening. Lou
Gerstner I
have learned to apply five simple rules to enable a small or medium sized
business grow without getting out of control and without suffering the severe affliction
of the growth crisis. 1.
Manage cash flow. 2.
Anticipate the financial structure and resources required in two, three years
time. 3.
Anticipate future information needs. 4.
Concentrate on technologies, products and markets. 5.
Anticipate top management needs. Peter
Drucker
"Would you
tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?"
"That depends
a good deal on where you want to get to", said the Cat.
"I don’t
much care where – " said Alice.
"Then it
doesn’t matter which way you go", said the Cat.
"- so long as
I get somewhere", added Alice as an explanation.
"Oh, you’re
sure to do that", said the Cat.
Lewis
Carroll
Vision
grabs. Initially it grabs the leaders, and through their enthusiasm,
followers and other stakeholders start paying attention. A company's
attention is sustained, though, only by what the leader does and how he acts in
pursuit of the dream. Robert
Townsend A
leader must be congruent. The old saw "I can't hear what you say
because what you're doing speaks so loudly" is a perfect criticism of
incongruity. Its why a leader can't be phoney. He can't pretend, he can't
act... Robert
Townsend Chaos and complexity.... The
managerial challenge rests in nudging systems into desired paths by initiating
small changes that can produce large effects. G Morgan Many
companies that succeed in sustaining competitive advantage in turbulent
environments do so by systematically destroying the breakthroughs created by
their own products and initiatives by coming up with better ones. G
Morgan refering to R D'Aveni Every
company has a strategy whether it goes through strategic planning exercises or
not. The strategy is what emerges out of the cumulative effect of
everyone's decisions every day in any firm. Done well, strategic planning
forces the participants to take a break from such continuous strategy making
activities, allowing them to think through what the company's options are and
how the company can achieve them. Eileen Shapiro Change
is essential to organisational survival. Followers are good at change when
leaders are good at managing change Max De Pree The
third commandment: concentrate all available resources on accomplishing two or
three specific operational objectives within a given time period Stevan
Brandt Buyers are getting smarter, more sophisticated, more
demanding. They won't put up with all this manipulative stuff
anymore. They'll simply go somewhere else to buy. Ron
Willingham Some
things can not be measured. The KPI is bogus if the measurement unit is
questionable. (heard
on radio)
It is there, in those questions, that the solution lies.
Hercule
Poirot
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