Great leaders hire great people and build great teams!
From the Practice Of Leadership blog, by George Ambler.
Great leaders surround themselves with great people. Lone ranger leadership is doomed to fail, there is no one great person that is going to transform an organisation it takes a strong team and a great leader. If you look at the life of anyone who has achieved success, such as Jack Welch, Bill gates and others, you’ll notice that they surround themselves with great people. But! It’s not that easy, the trick is to known what great looks like, "How do you know the great people when you see them?"
An article by Peter Carbonara from Fast Company provides help for leaders looking to identify and select the right people for their team.
Read the rest of George's article ...
Great leaders surround themselves with great people. Lone ranger leadership is doomed to fail, there is no one great person that is going to transform an organisation it takes a strong team and a great leader. If you look at the life of anyone who has achieved success, such as Jack Welch, Bill gates and others, you’ll notice that they surround themselves with great people. But! It’s not that easy, the trick is to known what great looks like, "How do you know the great people when you see them?"
An article by Peter Carbonara from Fast Company provides help for leaders looking to identify and select the right people for their team.
Read the rest of George's article ...
Labels: Leadership Succession, Teamwork
posted by mick yates @ 8:38 AM permalink
1 Comments:
At 1:16 AM,
Phil said…
There are two quotes we've included in our Leadership Quotes article, which are relevant here. The first is Peter Drucker's
“The effective executive knows that it is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass. She therefore makes sure she puts into the leadership position, into the standard-setting, the performance-making position the person who has the strength to do the outstanding pacesetting job. This always requires focus on the one strength of a person and dismissal of weaknesses as irrelevant unless they hamper the full deployment of the available strength.”
Of course appointing the right leader isn't enough, according to Theodore Roosevelt (and in the interest of gender equity!):
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Happy managing!
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