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Avoid Leadership Failure by Focusing on Your Purpose

Joe Paterno’s decision to coach the remaining games,rna decision later nullified by his firing, was arnleadership failure. By focusing on his purpose, hernshould have seen that coaching out the schedule was arnterrible idea. Learn from his leadership failure that you should usernyour purpose as a moral compass to guide you in makingrntough decisions. I’ve said before that when we focus on the purpose,rnwe get ourselves and others more engaged in the work,rnmore committed

November 18, 2011

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Leadership Demands Straightforwardness and Honesty

Last month I talked to two people, whose companies hadnradically different displays of Congruence--the element of Trustnthat shows how well what you do reflects what you say. nn(See the end of the column for a free download of the questionsnfrom the Strategic Alignment Survey, which measures Congruence,nand other elements of Trust and Alignment.)nnBill is a senior manager in a small company that imports andndistributes products for agriculture and industry. In his latenfortie

April 30, 2007