Monday, March 27, 2006
Traffic
More on leadership…
Nick Annetts from Wunderman Bangkok inspired me with his analogy of the motorway – check out his comment in last week’s posting. Basically, his point was that a good leader understands his team and chooses the right lane for each member – some fast; some slow; some at the speed limit, if you will.
Monday, March 20, 2006
Leaders
The notion of intent as the primary and powerful driver of integration, teams, seamless delivery, you name it, seems to resonate with many of you, many of our colleagues and even clients with whom I have shared this thought.
In my mind and experience, a good will drive intent through a mindset, a road to an attainanable set of ideals or goals. The path to these goals however should be more of a motorway.While some may travel in the fast lane, the majority will be in the middle, and there will of course the slow drivers and hard shoulder stoppers. A good leader will not take everyone on the fast lane, but realise that people are free thinkers and their own individual leaders. But of course the "hard shoulder" should always be kept free from blockages! My best experience of this was working for Virgin in both UK and Asia, the mindset of the leadership was clear,dynamic and empowering, each employee had a clear vision of what Virgin was trying to achieve and how it would get there, a framework in which employees could think but still follow...
Posted by Nick Annetts on 2006-03-21 02:49:17
I think there are three main cornerstones to a successful leader: 1. Communication - motivating your followers and gaining their complete trust and respect by: leading by example, being charismatic, passionate and energetic about intent, confident, level-headed and 'walking the talk'. 2. Strategy - Demonstrating that you are 'smart' and can lead your followers to 'success'. 3. Negotiation - with employees, suppliers, competitors, stakeholders...etc - to keep your followers content and willing to follow and to combat threats internally and externally.
Posted by Lisa Cook on 2006-03-21 13:16:46
Try this URL: http://www.thesourceofleadership.com/
Posted by daisy de clerck on 2006-03-21 15:02:58
Monday, March 13, 2006
Murder
I recently watched a group of our colleagues come together in a new business presentation, develop an exciting and compelling proposition for the prospective client, and win.
Couldn't agree more - PMA - positive mental attitude...Don't wait for the ship to come in, swim out to it..
Posted by Lisa Cook on 2006-03-13 14:06:43
Over the past many weeks, I was honored to be part of the collective effort that David refers to. And you're right, integration doesn't happen through process, charts, special exercises in integration... it happened by having a common goal and getting to know one anohter within the quest for that common goal. The true sign of integration is in the little things. We were asked to prepare the room in about 5 minutes as the previous agency ran late. We had about 15 minutes of set up to do. To see the team instincively work together to get the room prepped so seamlessly and calmy and working together ... it looked to the audience in the room like we had done that 100 times together before. A "little thing" but that's where you notice if a team's a team. When they asked for us to stand up at the end of the presentaiton and identify which orginal Wunderman group we were with... I think it was almost hard for us to each remember given the tightness that had formed. A special experience.
Posted by Jon Cook on 2006-03-13 14:19:05
Definitely good. May I add a suggestion for better lisibility ? Is it possible to make the text darker?
Posted by fransua on 2006-03-13 15:43:17
A writer I once met - now deceased – told me that before he wrote a novel he felt he had to go out and "commit experience." I love the concept. And as presented by Duke Ellington, it highlights the focus, intent, and pure adrenaline needed for any successful action creative or otherwise. And while the act of murder may be a negative, perhaps we as an agency could decide to collectively commit innovation, commit excellence, commit impact, commit invention, commit success…
Posted by Philip Dolin on 2006-03-16 15:47:01
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