tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post8348294036585657481..comments2023-10-20T05:41:57.791-07:00Comments on The NEW New World of Work, Help Wanted!: Are YOU a True Leader? by Al WalshPatty DeDominichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09663891542959417437noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post-45863861352248057142009-01-05T13:21:00.000-08:002009-01-05T13:21:00.000-08:00Warren Bennis's comments are very apropos to the t...Warren Bennis's comments are very apropos to the times. Humans are social animals, and do their finest work together. There is no nobler human effort than group assemblage and leadership. This will be an opening theme in my upcoming book. Too often, the focus these days is on self. We all need pursuits bigger than ourselves to add true meaning to our lives. I also experienced tight comeraderie in the military; and have enjoyed a few, very special group relationships in the business world. They mad me feel as if we could accomplish anything.Al Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13570309378184813650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post-91664829714112715552009-01-04T17:45:00.000-08:002009-01-04T17:45:00.000-08:00Response to R.K.C. from the author:My interest is ...Response to R.K.C. from the author:<BR/><BR/>My interest is in sharing thoughts that are hopefully helpful in developing careers & businesses. There is no benefit in dragging peoples' or companies' names through the "mud". Whereas I might quote a negative circumstance to make a point, my focus is on the positive. I hope those who made those past mistakes learned from them, just as I hope you benefit from my article.Al Walshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13570309378184813650noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post-63860091208888326092009-01-03T12:59:00.000-08:002009-01-03T12:59:00.000-08:00Warren Bennis said... A leader is shaped by his te...Warren Bennis said... <BR/>A leader is shaped by his team.<BR/><BR/>From Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, Marshall Schjool of Business, USC as seen in Lessona Learned, Harvard Business School Press<BR/><BR/>I, like most other people of my generation, went into the army when I was eighteen - I was three weeks away from being eighteen - and actually enlisted. <BR/><BR/>I went to UCLA to become a sanitary engineer - which basically means digging bathrooms, latrines for people in the front lines - and I was totally unsuited for engineering. Luckily they ended the program not because of my inadequacy or incompetence, but they had realized in 1940, that there was going to be a big invation that was going to start in 1944, and they would need hundreds of thousands of men - mainly men; there were just a few women then - to open up the front in France and Germany. It was called D-Day.<BR/><BR/>So they ended the sanitary enginerring program, and I volunteered for officer candidate school and went through four months of training at the Infantry School in Fort Benning, Georgia - what's sometimes called Benning School for Boys". <BR/><BR/>Four months of the best education I've ever had. Hard. I say that because if you evaluate education in terms of preparing you for what you're going to do inthe future, Ive never had a better education than those four month in Fort Benning to prepare me for being a platoon leader in the infantry.<BR/><BR/>What I learned, then, was how powerful that band of brothers was for shaping me. I began getting very interested in the idea of the power of groups, the power of the bond. <BR/><BR/>I think most of what we call courage and bravery is a function of belonging to a group for which you will take a bullet for somebody else. I did not think and still don't think I am a brave or courageous person, but I think that my platoon made it possible.<BR/><BR/>This is really a profound aspect of leadership: the understanding that the power of really feeling the trust and camaraderie of a group, understanding what a group is, and being part of a group- being bonded- can allow people the license to be at their best.<BR/><BR/>The above are excerpts from Straight Talk from the World's TOP Business leaders, Leading by Example. Harvard Business School PressAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post-34402718940889710732009-01-03T12:50:00.000-08:002009-01-03T12:50:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8548054102743290880.post-38226939846167642842009-01-02T09:37:00.000-08:002009-01-02T09:37:00.000-08:00I would like to hear more on this subject, where p...I would like to hear more on this subject, where possible using specifics. It's hard now a days to name names and we are all afraid of getting sued in some mass litigational blast, but if we just speak in generalities people don't get the value.<BR/><BR/>How about some real life examples of leadership or lack of it in the big financial houses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com