Leadership should be simple and confident

 

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"For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple. For a large organization to be simple, its people must have self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything theyā€™ve known since childhood.

Real leaders donā€™t need clutter. 

People must have the self-confidence to be clear, precise, to be sure that every person in their organizationā€”highest to lowestā€”understands what the business is trying to achieve. But itā€™s not easy. 

You canā€™t believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if theyā€™re simple, people will think theyā€™re simpleminded. 

In reality, of course, itā€™s just the reverse. 

Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple." ~ Jack Welch