It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Interpretation
Effective communication and honesty are essential in leadership.
In this quote, Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. emphasizes the importance of open and truthful communication within an organization. He argues that leaders must treat their team members as equals, sharing all relevant information, rather than withholding it, to foster trust and collaboration.
In practice
During a team meeting to emphasize the importance of transparency in our project updates.
Reorganization to me is shuffling boxes, moving boxes around. Transformation means that you're really fundamentally changing the way the organization thinks, the way it responds, the way it leads. It's a lot more than just playing with boxes.
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
I've always been a leader my whole life. I've always led. I didn't know how to do anything else.
A government must not waiver once it has chosen its course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.
Personal leadership is the process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with them.
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