Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/5/12

March 5, 2012

Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 3/5/12

March 5, 2012—Issue #128

This week’s focus point: If you read Walter Isaacson’s extraordinary biography of Steve Jobs, you encounter someone who, for a great deal of his life, was erratic, uncaring, often venal, frequently unwashed, and almost always condescending. Yet he forged a seminal organization which retained talent, innovated constantly, generated huge profits, and transformed a great deal of our professional and personal lives. There is no “royal road” to effective leadership. Toss out the gurus who insist leadership is best by consensus, or open book, or survey ratings, or financial focus. The more we try to homogenize and standardize behaviors, the more we suppress those who can shine in their own manner and in their own time.

Monday Morning Perspective: The best part of an affair in going up the stairs. Desire is always more satisfying than fulfillment. — French saying

Monday Morning Sneak Preview: Intellectual propert from my annual Thought Leadership Symposium. This year’s guest, Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science.
Video: http://youtu.be/m_MYhwzVE0c
Registration: http://summitconsulting.com/seminars/the-thought-leadership-symposium-2012-10.php

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