 Been a blank-blog week for me… some weeks I have no ideas, others more. Part of it, I am sure, was spending 5 days in the desert and blocking out just about everything I was trying to block.I am getting to the end of the latest book on my desk, Winning by Jack Welch and it is helping cement in the fact that strategy without leadership is not strategy. You can strategize all day, but without leadership you have the equivalent of someone who is pounding salt. Leadership, like strategy, is a really big topic. Most of what you will read will tell you that leadership is not about you, but about the people around you. Very true! Leadership includes building self-confidence in your team, making people see the vision and then living it, establishing trust with candor, making decisions, and celebrating the wins. The other point worth mentioning, you can lead without direct reports as effectively as you can with direct reports. There are many ways to tie leadership back to strategy, but I wanted to focus on the vision aspect of it. I have written about vision in the past, Roadmap: Product Vision Statement. As you start to flush out your vision, you will need to consider your resources, not only who, but how the vision can be articulated in such a way that people are able to live it. The primary message from Made to Stick was getting people excited enough about your idea (read: strategy and vision) that they will execute on it. Product management is 90% leadership, but unless you have a well-defined vision it will be impossible to make decisions and lead people in such a way that the vision enables them to comfortably make their own decisions. Time to dust off the vision and pass it through the -Made to Stick- principles again. Remember… no vision, no leadership, no strategy. See a previous post of leadership quotes, Leadership Lessons from McKinsey. And here are my two favourite leadership blogs from people with ties to product management: Image Source: The Risesmart Blog |
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