Sumeet Moghe’s “Tenets of Leadership”

Sumeet Moghe has put together a good list of ten aspects of leadership. Well worth reflecting on if you are in any sort of leadership role.

Guy Kawasaki says, “A players hire A players, B players hire C players.” This leads to the inexorable slide to Z players which finally leads to a Bozo explosion. What you want to do is avoid that slide by hiring A players and as Kawasaki rightly says, the A players actually hire A+ players. This in my opinion is the first step to building a high performance work culture where people want to learn from the colleagues they hire.

You can’t hire the best people and not trust them. That’s like buying a BMW, but pushing it to work everyday — you can never enjoy the benefits. Sometimes, people may frustrate you, disappoint you but as Randy Pausch said famously in his speech – “Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you”. He said, when you are pissed off at somebody, and you’re angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time. Just give them a little more time — and they’ll almost always impress you.

Read more at Free as in Freedom: My “Ten”ets of Leadership.