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ARE WE RUNNING AT FULL POWER?
Author(s) -
Smart Geoff,
Street Randy,
Foster Alan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
leader to leader
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1531-5355
pISSN - 1087-8149
DOI - 10.1002/ltl.20217
Subject(s) - honesty , silicon valley , power (physics) , baseline (sea) , scale (ratio) , bedrock , public relations , management , sociology , business , psychology , marketing , political science , social psychology , law , economics , entrepreneurship , geography , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics , geomorphology , geology
A large‐scale research project by Smart, Street and Foster “discovered that three distinct things predict or explain leadership success.” They are priorities, what they refer to as ‘who,’ (the employees you hire for your organization), and relationships. “The products of these three variables,” they write, are what they have dubbed your “power score.” The research draws on such resources as their mentor Peter Drucker and Silicon Valley executive Maynard Webb. Baseline, bedrock traits like honesty are important, yet not sufficient by themselves. For instance, honesty matters, and most leaders are honest. However, this “is kind of like having lungs—necessary for leadership success but by no means sufficient.”