The Feiner Points of Leadership
The 50 Basic Laws That Will Make People Want to Perform Better for You
Chapter One
Beneath the Tip of the Iceberg
In the early stages of my career as an executive, I felt I needed to direct
people to do certain things. I knew I was supposed to be sensitive and allow my
people to have a sense of involvement, but all the same I believed that they
expected me, as their leader, to tell them or show them what to do-to prescribe a
course of action. I was attempting, without fully realizing it, to conform to
the "heroic individual" concept of leadership.
So when I took my senior team to Hurricane Island, off the coast of Maine, on a
six-day Outward Bound team-building exercise, I carried this concept of
leadership with me. I had been successful leading this way and there was no need
to fix something that wasn't broken.
The Hurricane Island experience began with a day of land-based exercises. My
eight-person team was pumped and ready to go. After a few hours of orientation,
we were asked to confront our first challenge: to get the entire team over a
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