Chris Gallagher

Chris Gallagher

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  • Chris Gallagher in Leadership

    One thing I've noticed is that leaders can't be all things to all people. I've met people who are brilliant communicators, capable of explaining their vision and your place in it. But they lacked the capacity to delegate and manage people effectively. It is obviously a question of identifying the leaders' skills gaps, and putting other people in them.

    Does this make them a better, or worse leader?
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    • Justin Robinson
      Justin Robinson
      I've also met great leaders who weren't the big event grand vision delivery types. They were great at leading from the front line. Everybody has their personal style,. The wisdom is in knowing what your style is and knowing that you can't be all things to all people, then surrounding yourself with the people who are great at what you suck at.

      Does this make them a better, or worse leader?

      Isn't that very subjective? For me the greatest leaders are the ones who didn't set out to lead anyon… Read moree, they are simply driven to achieve their goals and as a consequence are followed.
    • srikanth
      srikanth
      I believe a leader should know how to inspire people and make people work in sync with his vision. He is not a leader who can not identify his successors or at least the people who can make his vision true. He's got to work on the minds than the hearts. People who lack the capacity to delegate and manage people effectively can not be called bad leaders, they shouldn't be associated with a name, probably....
    • Ramon Pedrollo Bez
      Ramon Pedrollo Bez
      An article has been going around the internet, with the top 5 qualities remarkable leaders have:

      1. Develop every employee.
      2. Deal with problems immediately.
      3. Rescue your worst employee.
      4. Serve others, not yourself.
      5. Always remember where you came from.

      Here's the entire article: http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/the-5-qualities-of-remarkable-bosses.html

    • Chris Gallagher

      "Good Strategy/Bad Strategy" is an excellent book for insights into strategy in business leadership. By Richard Rumelt.
      • Ramon Pedrollo Bez
        Ramon Pedrollo Bez
        Great book! I read it a short while ago, and I wrote down this great quote from it: "The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding-policy and a coherent action. The guiding-policy specifies an approach to dealing with the obstacles called out in the diagnosis."