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Leading by laughing
If you want to be a leader that is taken seriously, be serious. You and your organization are safe until the world changes too much. When that happens you want to learn about change- and crisis-management, quickly.
If you want to lead and develop enthusiasm, creativity, initiative and some positive risk-taking in your organization, have fun and laugh at yourself. As the leader and as the person you are.
Test: What was the last time you managed to do/cause something ridiculously funny?
If you don't remember, prepare for serious change management in the future. Believe me, it will all be very serious. You live and lead in a static world where other peoples errors are hidden from you when possible. And found later when they hurt.
If you enjoy sharing a silly story about yourself with your colleagues you are drawing out the afore-mentioned positive emotions and enabling an environment where fear is not a dominant factor. You can have a serious business with a fun and positive human perspective. And you definitely have a strong self-esteem.
Seriously yours,
Tommi
Managing Director
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Change High Performance Organisations Horizontal leadership Innovations Leadership
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Supporting my point of view about fearmongering or confidence-building leaders, a link to a John Cleese interview in Fortune 1998:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/07/06/244803/index.htm
JC: "Another thing that laughter does in organizations, and it is a tremendously healthy thing, is create and reinforce a feeling of confidence. Strong organizations are run with a sense of confidence coming from the top. Dysfunctional ones run on fear. When people ask me to do speaking engagements at corporations, my agent and I now reckon we can tell within three phone calls whether a company is running on confidence or on fear--and if it's the latter, I almost always find a polite excuse and walk away."
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