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rbnyc

(17,045 posts)
Tue Apr 3, 2012, 06:39 PM Apr 2012

What is leadership? [View all]

I think leadership is, first and foremost, service. In a company or organization a leader has to ask, who am I serving?

I am serving the mission. I am serving the customers/clients/participants. I am serving the Board. I am serving the staff.

I think a lot of CEOs, EDs and other managers think that the staff is serving them. But I think this is backwards. I think a leader has to discover what the staff needs (in service to the mission) and provide that. Sometimes that's guidance, sometimes that's orders, sometimes that's freedom and opportunity.

How do you define leadership in the workplace?

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What is leadership? [View all] rbnyc Apr 2012 OP
There's some truth in this old saw.... Scuba Apr 2012 #1
I love that. rbnyc Apr 2012 #2
I like what you wrote too.... Scuba Apr 2012 #3
right on rbnyc Apr 2012 #4
Another one I've heard: UrbScotty Apr 2012 #5
In a nutshell: lastlib May 2012 #6
The Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership lastlib May 2012 #7
Good points. DaveJ May 2012 #8
Spam deleted by gkhouston (MIR Team) jammartine Nov 2012 #9
Welcome to DU! hrmjustin Nov 2012 #10
Leadership??????????? GMR Transcription Nov 2012 #11
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