LeadershipNow 140: May 2009 Compilation

• Ten Fatal Flaws That Derail Leaders HBR  http://ow.ly/9Piu
• Mulally on Ford: "This is a huge enterprise and the magic is, everybody knows the plan." How well are you communicating?
• Edison’s genius lay in his ability to conceive a fully developed marketplace, not simply a discrete device ~Tim Brown IDEO
• Our competencies enable and restrict the range of leadership roles we will be able to perform well.
• How to manage the clever squad: It is time to reframe the debate about talent and start thinking about clever people.
• All the truly grt armies in history had a cause that inspired the individual to remarkable heights of courage & endurance ~Eisenhower
• The task of leadership is to create an alignment of strengths in ways that make weaknesses irrelevant. ~Peter Drucker
• We don’t first find leaders and hope they take on the qualities of a servant. We need to find servants and let them be leaders ~Cole
• To paraphrase Thomas Carruthers, a leader is one who makes themselves progressively unnecessary.
• Life reveals who we are inside. Life is the test of the measure of your leadership. ~Neil Cole  http://ow.ly/8aDf
• A model of action or agreement: Some leaders simply tell people what to do, while others try to build consensus..  http://tinyurl.com/rbyh3d
• Fund mgr James Chanos explained in 2007, "It is the regulated bits of the system you should worry about!" How true.  http://ow.ly/6F6c
• No such thing as dysfunctional org because every org is perfectly aligned to achieve the results it currently gets. We want it that way!
• Soar above the skyful of lies: If we are to manage the increased flow of information, first we have to learn to ...  http://tinyurl.com/o3jcv7
• Rick Smith: To be successful, you need to earn every relationship. Good Post:  http://ow.ly/5Pfj
• If we keep our focus too tight, we may miss the opportunities all around us.
• 'Shrink to Win' Isn't Much of a Strategy  http://twurl.nl/bkf6bj
• Goodbye Bland Affluence  http://twurl.nl/up47pe
• A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead ~Nicolas Chamfort
• The Secret faithful have been left standing at curb dutifully visualizing a new Ferrari as the repo man takes the Ford  http://ow.ly/4HY7