11 Theses about Leadership

1. Leadership is the decision to take responsibility for the future.
2. Leadership has 5 objects: myself, the boss, the task, the group, and the organization.
3. Leadership transforms resources into results.
4. The only goal for leadership is success.
5. Leadership has three functions: direct (shape direction), manage (get stuff done), and lead (let people grow).
6. Leadership is effective: over time; through people and with rules; between goals and anti-goals; in silence and in groups.
7. Leadership neeeds compassion, creativity, and courage.
8. The key to succes is mindfulness.
9. Leadship seeks essence: within dialogue, decision, solution, and failure.
10. Leadership balances.
11. Leadership happens as a repeated game of mutual influence. The more abstract and more fundamental the game, the more indirect the influence and the more longterm the impact.

Originally published at produktfuehrung.de on January 31, 2016.