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Great Leaders Know What They Do Best – and Let Go of the Rest

Great Leadership By Dan

Their lack of delegating the tasks that don’t fit their MO inevitably weakens respect for their leadership, leads to a loss of collaborative strengths, and causes mental burn-out from pushing themselves beyond their limits. Wannabe leaders believe that anything someone else can do well, they can do better.

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Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

→ May 12, 2009 · 12:55 am ↓ Jump to Comments Taking Charge: When Not to Delegate In leadership, one of the things we are always being reminded of is the importance of delegation, and with good reason. But when is it important not to delegate matters to others? Tackling Problems – How big is your “O”?

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Book Review of “The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance”

The Practical Leader

Southwest Airlines, Wal-Mart, IBM, ING, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble are some of the adaptive cultures providing insights to the enduring success growing from their highly effective cultures. Results (Four Rs, innovation, growth, and profitability). “Effective leadership often involves delegating responsibilities and authority.

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Talk About Your Brown Shorts If You Want To Hire Stars

Tanveer Naseer

They’re the specific attitudes that make your organization different from everybody else. “Brown Shorts” is a very strange name that pays homage to Southwest Airlines and their unique culture of fun. What the heck are Brown Shorts?

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10 Principles For Developing Strategic Leaders

Tanveer Naseer

Systems and Structures The first three principles of strategic leadership involve nontraditional but highly effective approaches to decision making, transparency, and innovation. By setting up ways for people to bring their innovative thinking to the surface, you can help them learn to make the most of their own creativity.

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Making Sense of Zappos’ War on Managers

Harvard Business Review

Innovation, customer delight, and profits would all follow from it. They wanted to hear about Semco, Southwest Airlines, Gore Tex, HCL. Issues have to be sorted out rather than delegated up. He was able to delegate instrumental performances, but never cultural ones. They wanted to hear about Zappos.

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How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly

Harvard Business Review

Less than one in 10 firms said they “innovate in an agile way.” In the 1950s, Boeing was an insignificant player in commercial airliners. When Hiroshi Yamauchi took over the company in 1948, there was considerable resistance by insiders to innovation. ” A 2014 survey by Deloitte of top U.S.