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Thought Tweet #814.5

by Rick Baker
On Aug 29, 2013

Thought Tweet #814.5 The purpose of leadership is positive change. The purpose of management is accurate action. 

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

Leaders use Vision to guide people. Managers use Vision to see where people need to improve.

PS: Only when you have followers are you a leader.

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Leaders' Thoughts | Thought Tweets | Vision: The Leader's Vivid Vision

Thought Tweet #814

by Rick Baker
On Aug 29, 2013

Thought Tweet #814 A Baker's Thought: It's easy to eat a cake, it's harder to make one, and it's even harder to create a cake recipe.

 

The Thinking Behind The Tweet

If you don't see any cakes, check first to see if your people have cake recipes. 

Another Baker's Thought: Most of the time when people don't do what you expect it is because they do not know how!

[Don't Tell them To - Show them How]

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Now see, I do listen.

Not as often as I should.

Not as well as I should.

It's a process...

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People Want To Do Good Work

by Rick Baker
On Aug 29, 2013

For some reason, people want to learn and people want to do good work.

The drive to learn is evident in our infancy. We see it in the seeking eyes of newborn babies. The drive to do good work is intimately tied to a need for approval. We see that in developing children. They do their best to do tasks in order to receive the approval of their parents, then authority figures, then peers.

Those intrinsic drives to do good work stay with us though our lives. People are intrinsically driven to learn and do good work. Their intrinsic drive should not be questioned, regardless of their performance.

If a person's performance does not illustrate learning or good work then do not conclude that person does not want to learn or want to do good work. Rather, conclude the person (1) has, for one reason or another, suppressed his or her drive to learn and do good work or (2) the person simply does not 'know how'.

People want to learn but often nobody has taught them the specific things they require to do good work. 

Above all else, great leaders are great teachers.

Great leaders cannot teach everything. Great leaders always have great weaknesses. They must not teach in areas where they have weakness. They must teach in areas where they have strength. In their areas of strength, great leaders are great teachers. 

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