Tuesday, July 21, 2015

#LeadershipTuesdays: Leadership Is...Peter F. Drucker

"Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not "making friends and influencing people", that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations."

--Peter F. Drucker




 Every other Tuesday, WOMEN AT LIBERTY provides a platform for a variety of voices and resources to develop, encourage, and strengthen women leaders. Peter Drucker is one of the world's most respected authorities on management and business. We have him to thank for "MBOs" or management by objectives, the process of tying the employees' performance objectives to the organization's goals. In the quote above, Peter Drucker says that leaders in an organization should be focused on people and helping them to develop and see themselves as achievers.

That brings us to today's article: "5 Reasons You Need To Make A Connection Culture Your Highest Priority". Michael McKinney states that:
"A culture that connects people would seem to be a high priority to leaders. Building a sense of community would seem to be a necessary first step before a leader does anything else. But a connection culture is not as common as you might expect.

Perhaps this [is] largely because our human nature still leads us to believe that we can always default to command and control when we have to. Or perhaps we just get so busy that we have no time for relationships. We just need to get the work done."

How successful we will be as leaders depends on how we are able to motivate and empower the people we lead to accomplish the organization's goals. Common sense would tell us that people who see themselves as an integral part of and connected to the organization will work hard for the organization. Leaders have the job of helping employees see themselves as an important part of what it takes for the organization to succeed. They do this by investing in the development of their people and establishing a shared vision.

Today's featured article gives us five simple reasons why creating a culture where people feel connected should be the highest priority. To read the article, click here.  For more information on Leadership Tuesdays or WOMEN AT LIBERTY, click here.  


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