A side-by-side comparison of the 2008 Presidential Candidate.
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There’s been a lot of talk about The Democratic Debate in South Carolina [transcript] and the advantage John Edwards may have as a result of the spat between Clinton and Obama. Are you kidding? The opposite is true. more…
I’m suprised that Wal*Mart has taken this long to realize the importance of differentiation in branding. For years, now, Target has executed a successful campaign based on a very simply brand promise:
Reading a colleague’s blog, I ran across the following:
A symphony conductor is usually a good musician, but seldom a world-class performer. The most effective university deans are often not the best professors. The ability to lead … to Engage Others and to Turn Them On … rarely coincides with being at the tip-top of the … Individual Performance Heap.Which is not to say that leaders shouldn’t have a fingertip familiarity with their particular line of business. But the factors that make you good at the “people stuff” and the “inspirational stuff” and the “profit-making stuff” are quite distinct from the factors that vault you to the Pinnacle of Individual Mastery.
In business, alas, it’s all too common to promote the “best” practitioner to the job of leading other practitioners. The best trainer becomes head of the training department. The best account manager becomes head of the sales department. And so on. Tellingly, that’s not how things work in … True Talent Enterprises.
So why do we go that route in business? Beats me. Gross stupidity? Maybe. But more likely: a refusal to see that leadership is … a discrete, limited, special quality.
A sentiment I’ve long understood, but I’ve not come across any better vocabulary for it.
