Friday, March 6, 2009

21-30 Creative/Type/Leader/Alert/Delegate/Leadership/Fire

100 Advices for Career Management

21. Creative Leader
In 1992 the agency of Brazilian advertising won 10 Lions of Gold at International Festival of Advertising in Cannes, France.
In front of these creative projects was Márcio Moreira.
Know the rules of this creative leader:

Keep your hand in the job: Do not let your activities in what you are good;
Look for opinions, not votes: Instead of consensus, respect the opinion of your team;
Slow contract, fire fast. Spend time to know who will get in to your team. If the partnership is not the most productive, decide fast;
Keep follow until someone stops you: Do not wait for your boss orders to get initiative;
In creativity there is not a final stage: Never be satisfied, exists always the chance to get an idea.

22. What is your type?
To differentiate boss from leaders, please take in consideration:
- The boss drives the people, the leader advice;
- The boss inspires the fear, the leader enthusiasm;
- The boss says "I", the leader says "us";
- The boss worry about things, the leader with people;
- The boss receives the prestige, the leader distributes;
- The boss only see today, the leader the tomorrow.

23. "The leader needs integrity and should be supported in personal values to take wrong decisions"
Napoleon Devia - from Lacocca Institute

24. Always alert
Avoid the favouritism and the unfairness.
Be alert to symptoms of jealous and take the decision. Say....
No to:
- Individualism
- Lock structures
- Authority models
- Ostentation
- Polarization
- corporate "politics"
- Lies and rumors
Yes to:
- Cooperation and teams
- Participative management
- Flexibility and the autonomy
- Salary programs with tracking
- Conflict negotiation
- Evaluation of merit and potential
- Information system

25. Delegate
There is bosses very perfectionists.
The Brazilians, for example, are known for this characteristic.
However at the time of delegating:
67% Admits that loves to check the team
91% Guarantee that verify the routine with a lot of careful

26. "The leaders should have time and space to disclose. Leaders can be developed, not manufactured."
Charles Handy - Book "Age of paradox"

27. Are you going to fire someone?
- Be in mind the motivation of quit;
- Convoke the person for short conversation;
- Prepare to administrate the emotional reaction of the person that will be fired;
- In case of depression, look for motivate the person and show the positive side;
- Give the news in morning time, in reserve room and without interruptions;
- Have in your hands the calculations of the rescission;
- Prepare to respond for questions as: "Can I go back to my room?" or "Can I give your name as reference?".

28. Principles of Leadership
- Know your values and where you want go, will drives you at the right direction;
- Explain yourself to your team knows if wants to follow you;
- Be exigent for the best is the pre-request to get it;
- The consensus mobilize who in you depends to put something in practice;
- Get support today is priority to use it in the future;
- Search for diverse and challenge task now will get you confidence and abilities that will be need later;
- Be fast: the inert is always disastrous as the bad acts;
- To use your leadership potential, combine objectives and talents in right company;
- Faith in your vision assures that your followers maintains strong to search for the objectives.

29."The leaders needs to have health of quantity of humble, courage and humanity. Humble is useful in success moments. Courage in weak moments. Humanity at all times"
C.K: Prahalad
Michigan University Teacher

30. "If you are a perfect leader and charismatic, great. But if you are not, there is no problem, because you are in the same group of the beginners of Sony, 3M, Boeing e HP".
James Collins & Jerry Porras
Author of the book: "Made to last"

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