Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 9/2/13
September 2, 2013—Issue #206
This week’s focus point: I’m not quite sure why killing civilians with gas is more heinous than killing them with missiles fired at residential neighborhoods, which the Assad regime has done. It’s also difficult to be a strong leader who concurrently asks for consensus to act. I’ve told corporate executives for 30 years that their role is to make the tough decisions, to do what’s right and not what’s popular, and most of all to be consistent. That’s why there are relatively few outstanding corporate leaders, and why I’m hard pressed to name even a few current outstanding world political leaders. I hope history will prove me wrong.
Monday Morning Perspective: Few things damn a company and its spirt as thoroughly as to have managers say, “You can’t get rich here but you won’t get fired.” This puts the emphasis on safe mediocrity. It breeds bureaucrats and penalizes what every business needs the most: entrepreneurs. — Peter Drucker
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