DECIDING ON LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

DECIDING ON LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

from the article 'Are You A Great Leader? Does It Even Matter?'
By Mark Henricks | April 18, 2011

Consider these guidelines when it comes to promoting others into positions of leadership, and to exercising your own:

Promote people to managers only when you need managers. Don’t do it only to justify a pay raise.
On the other hand, if your best technicians need more pay, pay them more.
But never put them into leadership jobs that don’t make use of their best talents.

Especially if you’re in a small company, follow Palmgren’s advice and don’t keep leadership entirely to yourself. “Proprietors should enable their personnel to voice their concerns about the company matters, take initiative, and participate in solving the problems experienced in small companies,” Palmgren writes, “instead of retaining power to their own hands only.” It turns out that you can sometimes best lead others by letting them lead themselves.

Mark Henricks has reported on business, technology and other topics for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and other leading publications long enough to lay somewhat legitimate claim to being The Article Authority. Follow him on Twitter @bizmyths.

MY THOUGHTS

Which brings me to another question-is leadership for everyone? If you were not a 'born leader', can training and preparation make you a leader, even if you do not have the potential?