A team needs a leader. The leader prioritizes issues and tasks to handle those issues. A leader motiviates team members to glimpse the future and the value of today’s task to attain the future. A leader urges, nurtures and congratulates team members. The team is curried and supported by the leader. The leader is invisible to the greater public. It is the team that achieves. Not the leader.
Now, compare this paradigm with the current White House.
See the differences?
America is great because of its people. What they do matters. The organization and structure of human effort is critically important, but it can only work if the people are there to be led. The people have to want to be there, have the need to show up, and the energy to do the work. Together they make a difference. Together they achieve.
Leaders are best when invisible. They are responsible for the structure, resources, place and time.
And the vision. Communicating the mission and vision is their job. Helping others see the mission and vision is their job.
Once done, get out of the way. Monitor results. Praise the doers. Reward them.
Someone in Washington DC doesn’t understand this.
April 17, 2020
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