5 Things I’ve Learned or Stolen
In the 6.15 CIO, William Cohen notes 5 things he’s learned from working with Peter Drucker. Three of them resonate with me and are provided below. Then I added two more which I did not steal from William Cohen. Can you guess which are mine?
- Nothing gets done without leadership. Or, conversely, with leadership, stuff gets done.
- Good leaders are creative, particularly when resources are scarce.
- Sometimes, a few of us are smarter than all of us.
- Everyone is different: manage your staff around their strengths and make their weaknesses irrelevant.
- Most of the time, fear influences behavior more than desire. People act more to avoid particular outcomes than they do to achieve a particular vision.
Kyle said:
Aug 05, 08 at 6:43 amI’m gonna say that 2,3, or 4 are yours. I can’t really narrow it down more than that. This of course means that the correct answer is that 1 and 5 are yours. ‘-)
rufusb said:
Aug 05, 08 at 7:33 amYours are 1 and 3.
Btw…my organization is up to its armpits in bad leaders. Therefore…nothing gets done. This one is right on the money.
essprit said:
Aug 05, 08 at 8:41 amI’m guessing 3 & 5 are yours. (I put #3 out of fear of being a total loser, since two other folks already put that, rather than out of a desire to achieve my vision of getting this right 🙂
admin said:
Aug 05, 08 at 4:44 pmEssprit got it: 3 & 5. Interesting how everyone picked 3. It’s true that I edited 1 a bit (the 2nd sentence is mine). I really like the bit about managing around staff strengths and trying to build organizations to protect us against all our weaknesses.
rufusb said:
Aug 06, 08 at 6:15 am3 sounded like something you would write and 5 sounded more, shall I say, “self-helpish”? I chose 1 because of the informal usage of the word “stuff”.
kdghty said:
Aug 06, 08 at 9:32 amIt’s too late to count now, but I definitely had 3 and was waffling between 1 & 5. Just in case you thought you were an enigma or something… ;^)