Leadership Jazz--Revised Edition by Max De Pree

Author:Max De Pree
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780385528320
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2008-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Second, just as moving up in the hierarchy does not confer competence, so organizational power does not guarantee wisdom. The discernment and judgment necessary to evaluate creative gifts and true innovation, to doom or give life to good design or engineering breakthroughs, lie in the province of people trained in those fields. Leaders owe it to themselves and their organizations to delegate such judgments to people more qualified than they.

Be careful about what you nurture. The perfect laboratory or the finest research facility can be very seductive. Leaders are understandably tempted to focus on the context. But a leader’s true love should be the people who do the work. She should nurture her relationships with those persons. As a physician once remarked to me, “You can’t learn surgery in a comfortable office.”

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