KEITH McFARLAND- 3 Levels of Leadership: Building Breakthrough Capabilities
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Reduce the Job of leadership to 3 Words:
1) Strategy
2) People (We need to optimize these 3 categories)
3) Execution
1 Man Band- all infrastructure, resource, run through 1 decision-maker, risk is too great.
• Start up or crisis
Tribal Band- strong leader with helpers
Sovereign Organization- leadership creates a hologram of the minds of people
Strategy- (Strategic Planning) a collection of ideas of how we’re going to web
Psychology of Routines- Strategy helps you breakthrough the routine
1) Most companies think about Strategy too seldom -> Should do it every 90 days!!!
a. What are 3 most Strategic important accomplishments we’ve had in last 90 days? (some element of how we’ve changed the field of play)
b. What are 3 most important strategic ways we fell short of our strategic potential?
c. What are 3 most important things we’ve learned about our strategy?
You could build a strategy in 48 hours that is 90% as good as 3-month planning. (more…)



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