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The Responsible Manager
February 16, 2010
You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), American essayist
"Expect to be judged by what you do and how well you do it — not by what you say you want to do."  This is one piece of advice to would-be responsible managers from C. K. Prahalad in Harvard Business Review (January 2010).  Here is more advice...
  • Be ready to invest in developing other people.  Be unstinting in helping your colleagues realize their full potential.
  • Understand the importance of nonconformity.  Leadership is about change, hope, and the future.  Leaders have to venture into uncharted territory, so they must be able to handle intellectual solitude and ambiguity.
  • Develop the ability to put personal performance in perspective.  Over a long career, you will experience both success and failure.  Humility in success and courage in failure are hallmarks of good leaders.
  • Be concerned about due process.  People seek fairness — not favors.  They want to be heard.  They often don't even mind if decisions don't go their way, as long as the process is fair and transparent.



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