Empowering junior leaders?
How can a senior leader encourage junior leaders to act and make decisions when they find themselves without specific guidance? How can a junior leader know when it's right to take charge?
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Blind obedience need not apply
Smart leaders lead by identifying the big goals, communicating them to their teammates, gathering the resources to get the job done, and licensing their junior leaders to lead.
Lead through your boss
As a junior leader, you lead first and foremost with your ideas, backed by your gumption
Distributed leadership at work
Today 'command and control' at the top is going the way of the buggy whip and being replaced by 'distributed leadership' where junior leaders act when the situation demands.
Ignoring Robert E. Lee
General John Buford didn't wait for orders at the battle of Gettysburg and gained the high ground for the Union army. But other leaders who acted autonomously at Gettysburg were not so successful.
The stretch assignment
Stretch assignments are the most challenging, and thus satisfying. After all, "Our stars must glisten with new fire, or be today extinct."
Crossing the Euphrates
Leading in the absence of specific guidance requires competence and confidence. The latter without the former is called recklessness.
Age of the millennial
For many millenials, its always the right time to 'take charge.'
Nordstrom's one and only rule
Can you think of a more potent prescription for chaos than inviting everyone in an organization to rely solely on good judgment when making decisions?
Horse-back lessons
My instructor helped me see myself as someone who could be fearless and confident, even as a puny kid on a huge horse.
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jmcharry: These essays on leadership are inspiring, but Gettysburg is overrated. The war was actually won in the west where the rebellion was cut in t...
SteveR1: The biggest detriment to leadership: Instant communication, such as the phone and radio. Why? "Let me check with my boss and then get back t...
johndonnerie: It's a great deal of work for the leaders to be engaged in such field. It's not an easy work to do, I must admit. And it does need a great ...
