I stopped by for two reasons. One to read your blog and let me say thanks for giving back to the community. Making sure that others share the vision is a real challenge. When I find someone who really buys my vision I grab them, nurture them, honor them, and put them up front!!

Second reason I stopped in was to say thanks for mentioning my blog on twitter.

Regards,

Leadership Freak
Dan Rockwell

Thank you for reinforcing the ‘craft’ of team-building.

Some thoughts on leadership and motivation:

Leadership is the art of mobilizing others toward shared aspirations. Leaders must take care of all stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers, the government, the community, etc. in order to promote overall welfare.

Great leaders are visionaries whose intuition helps them to capitalize on business opportunities. They surround themselves with “like-minded” professionals who complement them to help reinforce their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses. They realize that profits result from fruitful relationships and are prepared to share these profits with their team members.

Great leaders lead by (ethical) example: morals, fairness, caring, sharing, no false promises or unreasonable demands on others, etc., and structure compensation packages which promote effectiveness. Is “ethical leadership” an oxymoron?

An employer-employee relationship is a business courtship or marriage, depending upon how the relationship is handled by both parties. Job satisfaction and the welfare of corporations and individuals depend upon the degree of motivation. Motivation may be characterized as a drive toward some goal(s) selected in preference to other possible goals.

Leadership is the art of achieving results through the efforts of other people who must be willing to perform the task(s) required of them. The leader should understand and appreciate the values of his/her subordinates because these values/standards determine their opinions, attitudes, preferences, and actions. Congruence in the values of the organization, its top executives, and other employees leads to organizational effectiveness. Failure to understand values leads to barriers in communication, wastage of time and energy, distrust, plus ill feelings within the enterprise, and high employee turnover, with adverse implications for the bottom line: the satisfaction of all stakeholders: owners, leaders, managers, other employees, customers, suppliers, the community, the government, etc., i.e. all those upon whom the firm depends for its survival and success.

Job satisfaction results from (inner and outer) motivation of employees who have been selected on the basis of merit and duly motivated via money, respect, fairness, training, challenging assignments, appreciation, and other factors. Every leader must serve the interests of the organization and its stakeholders, so that the latter are geared toward working at maximum potential. The manager then helps them to solve most problems, with or without direct involvement in the solution to such problems. The leader’s behaviour affects followers, other stakeholders and organizational development.

It should be noted that knowledge workers are “associates” or “partners” who must be given a considerable amount of freedom and responsibility; otherwise, they will leave because they have their own tools of production (i.e., their specific knowledge as discussed earlier). They are in favor of decentralization and a nonhierarchical structure as far as possible.

Man continues to develop psychologically even after his/her physical development stops. Job enrichment through meaningful, challenging, and interesting work provides ample room for psychological growth and motivates people, if duly supported by fair treatment and sound working conditions.

I have a policy of distributing free abridged versions of my books on leadership, ethics, teamwork, motivation, women, bullying and sexual harassment, trade unions, business law, etc., to anyone who sends a request to crespin79@hotmail.com.

Maxwell Pinto, Business Author
http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/Management-TidbitsForTheNewMillenium.html

Thank you so very much for posting such a wonderful review of #QUALITYtweet. I am honored and glad that you liked the ideas presented in the book.

Best,

Tanmay Vora