Week 27 (20.10.07)

Learnt

Leadership

• Leading is about "influencing", "guiding" others on direction, opinions and actions
• It is an activity of vision and judgement effectiveness
• Leaders do right things - meaning don't waste time on low value added work
• Team must have common purpose, achieve the purpose through shared accountability
• Leadership attitude is about asking "How you feel" and understanding thoughts and feelings of others
• "Caring about the work" and "caring about the people" -prerequite to being a leader
• Important question for leaders to ask "How can I help?"
• Leadership continuum:

Operational ----> Transformational----> Visionary

present-oriented--> current operational to visionary --> future oriented (new team future)

Unlearnt

When managed team success and achievement, being leader for managers, i try to switch more of my time in planning for the future of the team ie team's products' alignment, team's incentive, field force structure for 2008 rather than being operational in handling the task.

Relearn

Being newly promoted, self-realization to move from being less operational to more visionary leader.