Thomas Koeppen Blog

Glen Waring, has summarized his observations on “Why do CEO’s Fail”. His thoughts are based on over 2,000 one-to-one meetings with CEO’s and over 200 all-day TEC Group meeting.

An Inability to See the Bigger Picture
An Aversion to Using Solid Financial Practices
A Lack of Clear Vision
A Lack of Passion
Lack of Clarity on the Reasons for Success
Too [...]

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Confucius
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
And back to business – a simple method of simplifying:
Collect – Choose – Eliminate – Organize.
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Posted by The Thomas Koeppen Blog 2008.

You tell me, i forget. You teach me, i remember. You involve me, i learn. Benjamin Franklin.

I found a nice description from http://www.agileadvice.com/ :
“A leader is a person who assists a group of people become a self-organizing, self-managing and self-sustaining team so that he/she no longer has to be a leader for that group.”
This is an interesting definition in contrast to the wikipedia one:

House defines “leadership” organizationally and narrowly as “the [...]

I posted some quite interesting articles from Paul Lemberg (the President of Quantum Growth Coaching):
Thought Leader Articles by Paul Lemberg: (formerly posted in strategy – still not migrated in my new weblog)

10 Qualities of a Transformational Leader What does a transformational leader need to know? Who do they need to be?
Six Ways Bosses Hurt Employee [...]