As a corporation, who are you, what do you do, what do you
stand for, where are you going - and when? Many companies
have a mission statement, but how often does it reflect reality?
Do the employees buy into it?
Understand it?
Believe in it?
Share it?
Difficult to define, identify, interpret, articulate.
One thing is certain.
If everyone is not on the same page,
your company is not running on all cylinders.
So how do we get everyone onto the same page,
living the same ideals,
working towards the same goals and objectives?
Of course there is no single, simple answer,
No magic panacea,
No potion you can put in their coffee.
The truth is:
Most corporate culture is shared by osmosis.
If the leader lives his vision:
Talks his talk and
His people will emulate him.
If he talks out of both sides of his mouth;
Talks one line and walks another;
His inconsistency will be reflected
in the attitudes and actions of his people.
Leadership - also difficult to define and articulate.
There is a self evident truth (experience suggests that
self evident often is not) about which John C. Maxwell
makes the point, “If you think you are a leader and you
have no followers, you aren’t a leader, you’re just going
or a walk.”
Someone guru has pointed out that everyone is a leader.
In some aspect of life: work, family, society, each of us,
every child old enough to talk intelligibly and every adult
assumes a leadership role.
A six year old says, “Lets go to McDonalds”, and we go.
Dad says, “Lets go for a drive”, and we go.
Mom says, “Lets put on a movie”, and we do.
Leadership has been defined as the ability to produce meaningful
change but in this 21st century change has a way of happening
with or without leadership,
and
The leader’s role becomes that of change management and control.
To grab change by the horns and steer it where you want it to go
requires innovation but also that perhaps most elusive leadership
characteristic, courage.
If we recognize the potential to develop in each of us the
ability to lead more often and more effectively, and to lead
consciously rather than by accident, we are taking a major step
toward becoming more effective leaders ourselves.
Len McNally
Len McNally has been involved in people development, self help and coaching for many years. To learn more visit stress relief, stress ball and stress anxiety today
Early in 2006 Len McNally’s book Acres of Diamonds Revisited was published by Authorhouse. As a follow up Len’s new ezine Acres of Diamonds Revisited will continue on many years of coaching, motivating, and mentoring people to become everything nature intended them to be. For additional information or to subscribe to Acres of Diamonds Revisited - the ezine - go to
http://www.acresofdiamondsrevisited.com