Comments for The Prime Leader

Comment on The Action-Observation-Reflection Model of Leadership Development by Leadership development

Leadership development — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:30:56 +0000

Today’s world is a business world and every business need person who is having good leadership skills achieves success in business. Leadership is different from each company, some strategy works in one organization, in one time and place, may well not work in another. Communication, motivation, planning also create a learning environment, care about the people you lead, be honest, focus on results and let people figure out how to do their work. Leader should have these activities. Every leader should take a proper action after the action he should do observation of his action and the finally he should check the out put or result of his action. So above three points are very essential for good leader.

Comment on The Significance of Envisioning by Dan D

Dan D — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:56:35 +0000

I look forward to your next post than. Corporate culture is vital for long term expansion. It is significalty more challenging to implement changes to your corporate culture once you have achieved large growth. This culture, though may be in an incubation state as a small to medium size company, is served very well by your leadership team cultivating your key people to the same ideoligies that your company has during the infant stage of development. This grooming process is essential to installing these core beliefs into the lifeblood of your company for your longterm advancement and growth.

Comment on The Significance of Envisioning by Aleksandar M. Velkoski

Aleksandar M. Velkoski — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:21:33 +0000

My take is that workflow analysis is extremely important. The advantage that you have, being employed for an organization with less than 10 employees, is that you can exert greater control over general, down to line-level, workflow design than management at a Fortune 500 firm. You have to be sure that, as you grow, you continue to take the time to analyze and refine processes, even at the line-level, so that you can remain lean and competitive in the marketplace. This will allow you to stay as nimble as possible, for as long as possible, through the cycle of organization evolution. Obviously at some point as top-level leadership you’ll have to delegate that task, but how many organizations even 10x your size actually focus on workflow design and analysis? Probably not that many. Make it part of your culture from the get-go (I’ll be writing my next post on the development of organizational culture at emerging firms). Doing so will give you such a great competitive advantage over other firms that eventually, with planning, you may have a realistic chance at dethroning the current leader in your industry.

Comment on The Significance of Envisioning by Dan D

Dan D — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 15:57:03 +0000

Nice comment. I could not possibly agree with you enough on this point. Planning, Strategy and Analysis are your best friends in this regard. I would also like to hear your thoughts as far as company wide workflow analysis and the streamlining of processes that actually helps create a leaner more productive group effort and not slow down the evolution of processes. This is something that our company does to no end. Everything that we do, we make every attempt to refine that system and/or process, without the fabled “Paralysis by Analysis” syndrome. Though I do recognize that for our company (under 10 employees) we are alotted this luxury to adjust and make changes as we see fit and have a high rate of implementation and flexibility, but even at the enterprise level, these same theologies should be preset. Any thoughts.

Comment on The Significance of Envisioning by Aleksandar M. Velkoski

Aleksandar M. Velkoski — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:04:49 +0000

Dan, yes, I completely agree with your analysis. It’s extremely difficult to take a step back from everything that you have to do on a day-to-day basis, as a small business owner, in order to make time to craft strategy. However, without a well defined strategy your organization is not likely to succeed (long-term). A lot of small business owners get frustrated with the fact that their business isn’t growing. But, when you take a little time to dig deep into the details you notice that they don’t have a formal long-term strategy for their organization. What do they expect? That which cannot be measured, cannot be done, and without strategy, without a solid plan and goals, there is no way to measure your progress. There is no way to reflect. There is no way to change. There is no way to achieve. Therefore, there is no way to succeed.

Comment on The Significance of Envisioning by Dan D

Dan D — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:44:00 +0000

I would agree with your line of thought here. I think that many leaders in the Small Business space create their vision as a more short sighted strategic plan and do not work dilegently at cultivating a much larger view. In most small business, these leaders many times are consumed by the day-to-day operations and can their scope and scale can disipate. I think that you nailed it by stating that, you must create a vision of the future direction of your companies goal sets and use this as a focusing tool for your management team. Just my $.02

Comment on Ethics, Morals, and the Leadership Process by elemi john

elemi john — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:24:58 +0000

paradoxically there is no leadership with out followership, beacause leaders seek the opinion of the followers to implement decisions.

Comment on Quote on Leadership (John Quincy Adams) by Cindy Whiteman

Cindy Whiteman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:38:48 +0000

If you motivate yourself to dream, learn, do, and become more, are you a leader?
Yes, you are a leader then. Before motivating others, are you able to motivate yourself. Its something like before you discipline others, do you yourself have the self-discipline !

Comment on Leadership and Storytelling by Aleksandar M. Velkoski

Aleksandar M. Velkoski — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:17:21 +0000

Trust is extremely important in the leadership process and in communication. Trust is the foundation of human relationships. Without trust, there is no relationship. Without a relationship, there is no such thing as effective communication. Thanks for your insight Dan!

Comment on Leadership and Storytelling by Dan

Dan — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:22:39 +0000

One of the best examples I can think of is an executive who was very interested in building trust and breaking down barriers in the teams he managed. He was promoted every year or so to a new location and team so there wasn’t a lot of time to “ramp up.” When I initially helped him with this work, he would ask good questions at an initial retreat with his new team, mining the group for the problems and challenges it faced. But over time, as he progressed even higher in the organization, he found that such questions were not as important as his own story. He learned to talk about his successes in his career and also places where he had “screwed up big time.” Of course, his authentic self-disclosures turned out to be an invitation for others to share their own stories, and in a short time, he was able to build trust through a strong sense of human connection rather than abstract discussions of challenges and problems his new reports were facing. All of that stuff, of course, came out as well, as people told their own stories.