Best of Blogs: Slow Leadership

Authors Carmine Coyote, Peter Vajda, and John Fletcher of Slow Leadership offer interesting and challenging articles to help readers think through issues and find ways to enjoy life and work to the fullest.

They believe "slow leaders" are only slow in making decisions or jumping to conclusions and that it's essential to think more clearly and make better choices, free from today's obsession with meeting unrealistic, short-term expectations.

This post is the 2nd in their "Become a Slow Leader" series. I think it's a great lesson.

Courage can build a leadership style to be proud of
on Slow Leadership (January 24, 2008)

When things get rough — as now — beware of cowards, mixed messages, and macho managers

Tough times sort out the true leaders from those who wear the clothes but have nothing beneath them. Leaders lead; mere administrators, whatever their job titles, panic. Worst of all, fair-weather bosses infected by Hamburger Management send people mixed messages. In today's atmosphere of frantic competition and short-term focus, mixed messages caused by "macho" management can make bad situations far worse and leave a business wide open to crushing problems. It's time we recognized that moral courage is often a truer test of leadership than mere quarterly results.

If nothing else has results from our boom and collapse economy, it ought surely to make everyone aware of how many supposed leaders are nothing of the kind; and the ease with which such executives, under pressure to "deliver the goods or else," cross the line from tough business practice to dishonesty and fraud.

A few past offenders have been caught and punished, but that doesn't mean the underlying problems have been cured.


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