In my assignment to structure, build and develop TNNWC Group, LLC, I have confronted virtually every situation ordinarily faced by an entrepreneur, a leader, a laborer, a team member, a mediator, a moderator, a motivational speaker and a CFO.
In a small enterprise which is comprised of entrepreneurial individuals (both left-brain oriented and right-brained oriented; both concept-driven and protocol-driven; both creators and critics; both bench-warmers and warriors; both ego-dominated and ego-in-check), each participant is forced to do a great deal more than just those functions which represent the highest and best use of his or her time - there are areas that are deficient and underaddresssed, and there are areas where team members almost literally trip over each other's efforts.
My role is to coordinate this whole mass of cells and to make it function as an organism focused on achieving a goal. I have to encourage synergy and cooperation in between breaking up petty battles and straightening out misunderstandings.
As a commander, or a leader, you must be a very, very good communicator, and on many levels. But there are two other qualities that play a tug-of-war inside of every successful leader.
Douglas Castle
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Management And Leadership Skills - Strength And Flexibility
My question is a simple one. Which attribute is more important in a leader: Strength or Flexibility?
My other questions which spring forth from the first are a bit more complex:
1. Does flexibility detract from strength?
2. Does strength detract from flexibility?
3. Which attribute do teammates generally respect more or gravitate toward more readily?
4. In a very dynamic, rapidly-changing environment, which attribute is actually more important?
5. In a situation where the path ahead is reasonably clear, but the team needs to be kept together and "herded in," which attribute is actually more important?
If you want to message, manage, build, or achieve anything in your life, or through your emerging enterprise as a vehicle, you had better give some very, very serious thought to both attributes, and some every greater thought to why it might be best to be overt about your strength and seeming inflexibility, while it might be prudent to be musch more subtle about your willingness to be adaptible and flexible. - DC
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