Look at great organizations, those that perform and achieve at the highest levels – and often you will usually find a great leader sitting at the helm. But history shows us that when we drop those leaders into different circumstances – they often fail. Why? Because it is the organization that makes the leader successful.<\/p>\n
There are countless successful companies that have failed leaders. So what is the relationship here? To start, the relationship is between a company’s performance and it’s leadership: the means and competencies by which it is led.\u00a0Leader<\/em>\u00a0is a title offered or taken as a designation of authority – not necessarily ability: there is a long list of so-called leaders who have failed miserably at providing leadership. The\u00a0relationship of leadership to success is one or interdependence between purpose – or why things (need to) happen and performance, which is how well things work out.<\/p>\n Leadership is always measured by what gets accomplished<\/em>. This doesn’t mean that you must always achieve your aims – but what you accomplish even when you don’t is what ultimately matters. It’s why some organizations gain from failures and others can not survive them.<\/p>\n The role of leadership is to ensure that the organization is built to perform and then fueled and driven to succeed in accomplishing it’s aims. Leadership is necessary to drive this in\u00a0successful organizations – but it\u00a0doesn’t always come from its appointed leaders. When this is the case – it becomes clear that it is the organization that ultimately counts, because it is competently applied\u00a0talents and efforts of the organization, not it’s leaders vision, or task-mastery that accomplishes whatever is achieved.<\/p>\n Competent leaders understand this dynamic. They intuitively and deliberately focus attention on the performance of the organization by developing people in order to have them strive for their personal best and aspire to their potentials.They\u00a0design\u00a0and build\u00a0organizations that operate effectively and efficiently and instill\u00a0the sense of purpose that keeps people and systems aligned with each other and with the needs of the marketplace.<\/p>\n The oft-cited quote by Peter Drucker – that suggests that “the purpose of a business is to create a customer” may seem to speak only to the need to align an organization with the marketplace – but really speaks to what must happen in order for that to happen. When leadership makes it both possible and necessary for people to perform consistently better than the competition – and better than they themselves did the day before – the organization gains a sustainable competitive advantage – and the leaders success can be\u00a0actualized.<\/p>\n The lesson needing to be learned – is that for a leader to be successful – we must focus on ourselves only to the extent that we must become someone capable of doing what must be done: developing the organization and the people – and managing the\u00a0meaning of why the organization must exist and how it must serve it’s destiny –\u00a0\u00a0so that the organization is driven with a purpose far greater than just making that\u00a0customer. Such organizations are the ones that change the world. 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