4C Leadership: Communication, Cooperation, Commitment, Change

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the ceo magazine, leadership,
Dr. Alan R. Zimmerman, Leadership Consultant and author of the "Payoff Principle"

In the old world of work, it was all about taking orders.  People were expected to park their brains, shut their mouths and work their forty hours a week.

In the new world of work, it's all about engaging people.  President John Quincy Adams talked about that 200 years ago when he said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."   He’s right.

Why Smart Managers Make Stupid Decisions

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Ever find yourself on a team or in an organization that’s struggling because of a leader’s poor decision? Citizens clamor about such crippling effects by their politicians routinely. You sit back and reflect on the leader personally and wonder why a savvy, experienced, and ordinarily capable person could make such a stupid decision or policy—one that wrecks a project or destroys the morale of so many people.

Leaders Who Fail: Lessons You Can Learn From Them

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Many people today talk about leadership who’ve never led anything more complex than a high school marching band.  They offer this or that principle as if proven under fire when, in fact, their experience has been limited to launching missiles in a game of Battleship.

But that’s not to say that you can’t learn from these neophytes or even failed leaders. On the contrary. As volunteers or especially as victims in their experiments, you often have a front-row seat to observe their inappropriate actions and inactions. You learn not to repeat their leadership lapses:

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