Comments on: Follow the Leader? http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/follow-the-leader.htm Using Business Intelligence to make data meaningful and solve business problems. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:39:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melissa Park http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/follow-the-leader.htm/comment-page-1#comment-76 Melissa Park Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:14:57 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/follow-the-leader.htm#comment-76 I agree, John. Your thoughts here reminded me of Jon Katzenbach's book "The Wisdom of Teams" where he is a big fan of "shared leadership" (in certain situations)... letting others take the reigns as a learning tool, to support creativity, or even when a "subordinate" is really the subject matter expert. It can be a very powerful tool when creative, thought-generating, exploratory thinking is warrented. Sharing the leadership is a reminder that to be a good leader is also to be good teammate. I agree, John. Your thoughts here reminded me of Jon Katzenbach’s book “The Wisdom of Teams” where he is a big fan of “shared leadership” (in certain situations)… letting others take the reigns as a learning tool, to support creativity, or even when a “subordinate” is really the subject matter expert. It can be a very powerful tool when creative, thought-generating, exploratory thinking is warrented. Sharing the leadership is a reminder that to be a good leader is also to be good teammate.

]]> By: DAVIDeBOWMAN http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/follow-the-leader.htm/comment-page-1#comment-64 DAVIDeBOWMAN Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:27:45 +0000 http://thefuturevalueofbusiness.com/follow-the-leader.htm#comment-64 To follow up on a great post from one of LUCRUM's leaders... This brings to mind one of the mantra's that I learned at The University of Dayton. Learn, Lead, Serve. These are not independent of one another, but should be happening simultaneously in unison with one another. Great leaders serve their followers, and great followers are by their very essence great leaders. There is a time for "out of the box" and there is a time for simple execution. It is the great follower who knows the difference, and knowing that difference makes great leaders. Great Post John. To follow up on a great post from one of LUCRUM’s leaders…

This brings to mind one of the mantra’s that I learned at The University of Dayton. Learn, Lead, Serve. These are not independent of one another, but should be happening simultaneously in unison with one another. Great leaders serve their followers, and great followers are by their very essence great leaders. There is a time for “out of the box” and there is a time for simple execution. It is the great follower who knows the difference, and knowing that difference makes great leaders.

Great Post John.

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