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LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP OF THE ORGANIZATION

"An organization is a human group, composed of
specialists working together on a common task"

"The function of organizations is to make knowledge productive"

"Organizations are special-purpose institutions.
They are effective because they concentrate on one task."

"...The organization is a destabilizer...
it must be organized for constant change."

"One implication: every organization of today has to build into its very structure the management of change."

"But the ability to create the new also has to be built into the organization.
Specifically, each organization has to build into its fabric three systematic practices...

...continuing improvement of everything

...to exploit, that is to develop new applications, from its own success...

...every organization will have to learn how to innovate..."

"Its (post-capitalist society) organizations must be able to make fast decisions, based
upon closeness to performance, closeness to the market, closeness to technology,
closeness to the changes in society, environment, and demographics, all of which must be seen and utilized as opportunities for innovation."

Post-Capitalist Society
Peter Drucker

"The task of the leader is to get people from where they are to where they have not been."

Henry Kissinger

LEADERSHIP OF RELATIONSHIPS

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree,
surveys the entire situation and yells, "Wrong jungle!"

But how do the busy, efficient producers and managers often respond?
"Shut up! We're making progress!"

Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey -- 1994

All the well meaning advice in the world won't amount to a hill of beans
if we're not addressing the real problem. And we'll never get to the problem
if we're so caught up in our own autobiography, our own paradigm, that we
don't take off our glasses long enough to see the world from another point of view."

Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey -- 1994

There is no limit to what can be accomplished
when no one cares who gets the credit.

John Wooden

There is no such thing as a self-made man.
You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

George Shinn

LEADERSHIP OF SELF

"...it is safe to assume that anyone with any knowledge will have to acquire new knowledge every four or five years, or else become obsolete."

"Knowledge workers can work only because there is an organization for them to work in. In that respect, they are dependent. But at the same time, they own the "means of production", that is their knowledge."
Post-Capitalist Society
Peter Drucker

"The 90's will separate the winners and the losers. Those who embrace change will be the winners, those who resist it will be the losers."
Jack Welch
CEO - General Electric

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb

"If you start to take Vienna -- Take Vienna!"
Napoleon Bonaparte

"Don't find fault - Find a remedy."
Henry Ford

"Just do it!"
Nike

"The society of organizations, the knowledge society,
demands a responsibility-based organization."
Post-Capitalist Society
Peter Drucker

"If you think you can do a thing, or if you think you can't do a thing; You are right."
Henry Ford

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