PMETH

The success of your organization depends on leadership, real leadership.  But don’t just take my word for it.  For proof that everything rises and falls on leadership, just look around you.  Read Fortune magazine or BusinessWeek.  They always have great articles reciting what business leaders who have made companies great attribute to their success.  And, guess what, the things that they attribute to their success, can be found in the PMETH Principles.  Leadership principles are based solidly in decades and decades of research. 

However, you may still question the importance or the effectiveness of some of the PMETH principles.  For instance you may say, I don’t think engaging in conflict will help our organization improve, or letting people weigh in won’t make a difference, or connecting with people, shoot I have more important things to do than standing around getting to know my staff.  Well, guess what, great leaders in history have already proven that this stuff works and all of it matters to the success of any organization. 

You cannot debate the effectiveness of the PMETH Principles.  History and countless leaders have already shown us that following these principles will lead you and your company to greatness. 

The only thing that there is to debate, is whether or not you want to be a leader, whether or not you want your company to be better than it is today, better than the competition, whether or not you want to go beyond being successful to significance, whether or not you want to make a real difference.  That’s it!

Standing around debating whether or not leadership is important is equivalent to standing around debating whether or not having a good coach is important to a sports team.  I don’t care if you have the best players or employees in the world, if you don’t have a good coach, a good leader, having the best players, the best employees, the latest technology, the best-laid strategic plan won’t matter.

For proof of this, we don’t have to look far.  The demise of Arthur Andersen is undeniable proof that everything rises and falls on leadership.  I’m certain that Arthur Andersen had the latest technology, the best and brightest, most competent people, the best-laid strategic plan.  They had everything, right?  WRONG.  The one thing that they lacked is leaders with integrity. 

Duplicitous leaders, and I use the word leaders loosely in this case, duplicity brought down the entire company.  An intelligent person that I know said that the demise of Arthur Andersen had nothing to do with leadership.  It had EVERYTHING to do with leadership.  He said that the government just wanted to make an example of them.  Well, that may be true but the point of making an example of someone is to be able to say, look, you can’t do bad things and get away with it.  For someone to be able to make an example out of you, you had to be doing something wrong.  Arthur Andersen is proof that everything rises and falls on true leadership, and that integrity is the foundation of true leadership.

The great thing about leadership is that it can be learned and improved, regardless of your current level of leadership. Read good leadership books, listen to tapes, attend workshops and recognize good leadership when it's modeled and emulate it.

The leadership journey is one of the most satisfying you will ever embark upon.  It pays unmatched dividends for you, your people and your organization.

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