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Wisdom of Pirates
September 30, 2010
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher
-Margaret Thatcher
According to Rao, a common mistake of organizations today is the lumping together of two distinct areas of responsibility:
Star tasks — strategic work such as setting goals, providing leadership, and negotiating alliances.
Guardian tasks — allocating resources, administering personnel policies, and basically managing the day-to-day work of the company.
Going back to his pirate analogy, Rao observes... "they made the captain responsible for star tasks, and elected a quartermaster general to perform the guardian tasks."
Arrgh!
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Comments (2)
Displaying All 2 CommentsShishu Vikash Kendra
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Some ethics are conclead every great work . The story of pirates reveals the
victory that effects the mind of the children.
United States
I think this philosophy on leadership is terrific for large, global companies. For the small non-profit and child care centers, leadership often involves vacuuming and delivering media packets, in addition to establishing the strategic plan, budgets and inviting partnerships. Some of us even go to two separate desks to help define the differences in "brain work."
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