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Self-Assessment: Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Leader?
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Being a good team leader means you have the same, but greater, responsibilities than other team members. Leaders have a responsibility to develop people. Some guidelines for developing others are as follows:
In order to develop people, leaders must value them and be committed to them—leaders can gain outstanding results from people they assume can produce outstanding results, and the opposite is true as well—something known as self-fulfilling prophecy, or the
Pygmalion Effect (to learn more about the Pygmalion Effect, go to http://www.accel-team.com/pygmalion/).
People excel in an encouraging environment rather than in a critical environment—praise regularly and confront privately and only when dealing with an action the person can change. Give people the right tools to get their jobs done. Provide opportunities for people to continually grow through training programs.
Building an excellent team is one of the most significant legacies leaders can leave to their organizations. Best-selling author of Built to Last and Good to Great Jim Collins puts it this way:
Rubbermaid’s decline (and eventual sale) after the departure of Stanley Gault was widely interpreted as proof of Gault’s executive genius. But Collins interpreted it as just the opposite: By organizing Rubbermaid around his outsized personality, Gault had failed to build the mechanisms that would allow the company to excel without him. Walmart’s Sam Walton, by contrast, successfully “overcame” his native charisma to do just that. “You can’t really assess a CEO’s performance until about ten years after that CEO is gone,” said Collins.6
Footnotes: 1 Schlender, B. (1997, May 26). On the road with Chairman Bill. Fortune, 72-90. 2 Martin, J. (2003, May 12). Wayne’s world. Fortune. F144[B]-144[D]. 3 Brooker, K. (2002, December 30). Jim Kilts is an old-school curmudgeon. Fortune, 95-102 4 For more information on Oprah Winfrey, go to www.oprah.com/about/ostory/about ostory herjourney.jhtml or www.oprah.corn/about/press/about press pressroom.jhtml. 5 CNN Larry King Weekend, (2001, September 9). Transcript #090900CN.V42. Downloaded 5/21/03 from LexisNexis. 6 Useem, J. (2001, February 19). “Conquering vertical limits” Fortune.

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