Welch's 21 Steps to Management Greatness - 6
"We now know where productivity - real and limitless productivity - comes from. It comes from challenged, empowered, excited, rewarded teams of people."
This is the most vital side of business leadership that exists. Unfortunately, too many people subscribe to silly, nonsensical things that attempt to show what determines great business leaders. In the end, most of it is written by a bunch of intellectuals, many times not even out of college with no experience. But somehow they've come up with the answers to leading businesses.
Here's a man that lived and breathed business leadership, and helped his people achieve some of the greatest results in history. I'll listen to what he has to say.
The reason I mention that is because the temptation to find answers can take us in directions that bring us further from what is needed, and can become the exact opposite of the purpose we're trying to achieve.
What a great vision does is reign in all that nonsense and cause everything that's done or thought about to be built upon that vision. It helps eliminate that temptation to come up with complicated answers, which there are a thousand people standing in line to give you at a price.
Welch said after his comment above: "Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance. Getting employees excited about their work is the key to being a great business leader."
The vision of a company is the key to it all. This doesn't mean that it's some type of hyped-up, emotionally charged vision that brings burnout after a relatively short time, rather it's the quality and purpose that the vision represents that charges people up over a long period of time.
Live and breath the vision of the company, always reminding people and talking it up, and then get out of the way and let your people go. All you have to do is occasionally check up on them to let them know you really are interested and care about what they're doing.
Those that are willing to do this are already ahead of probably 98 percent of businesses in the world today.
Other Jack Welch Resources:
Jack Welch's advice to MIT Sloan students
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