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Leadership is not about command and control, but about creating and allowing the conditions for a better future to happen

Submitted by GreaterLifeCoach on January 22, 2009 - 7:23pm.

Spiraling from the Inside Out (copyright Christophe Horvath)

The days of command and control (and coercion)management styles are over (and if not yet, they soonest should be!). No measure of pressure from the outsidewill ever attract anyone to happily volunteer one’s very best on a consistentbasis. The “utilitarisation” of people as “assets” or “commodities” is unlikelyto ever inspire anyone with some self-esteem and human dignity to give the bestof oneself.

The illustrator who didn't believe

Submitted by Walts Frozen Head on April 22, 2007 - 10:38am.

Mickey & Walt A sculptor who worked in Disneyland once explained how he used to be a humble illustrator, one of hundreds working for Disney, when Walt approached him and told him he could be a sculptor.

The responsibility of the executive is (1) to create and maintain a sense of purpose and moral code for the organization; (2) to establish systems of formal and informal communication; and (3) to ensure the willingness of people to cooperate.

— Chester Barnard

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