Leading is not easy, is it? Would you dare to rate your boss? I believe most of us do, without ever talking about the results. But sometimes, in a crisis, we draw personal consequences and withdraw from a gross boss. A loss.
In a closed forum we discussed rating your boss ...
21. Does not make people feel who's the boss around here - a true leader.
22. Is a boss in an emergency - a true leader in tough times.
23. Praises in public, punishes in private.
24. Activates people and does most of the 14 basic managing processes posited in The Will to Manage by Marvin Bower (1966).
25. Drives out fear and does most of the 14 points for management posited in Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming (1982).
26. Does not just manage but leads as described in The Will to Lead by Marvin Bower (1997).
I believe that leaders and leadership teams working together in a proper design will run the business more effectively than by hierarchical, command-and-control managing. But I can't prove that. And there are no models.
Bower, M., (1997). The Will to Lead. Page 7, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, ISBN 0-87584-758-7
Now, 11 years later, there are models!
The models work - all over the place.
Can you see them? Can you follow? Will you learn? Will you lead?
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