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The Challlenge
What's the best-run enterprise in the world? It just may be the Marine Corps.
Their secret? Don't think boot camp. Instead, the Marines have refined a wide-ranging system of management practices that have undergone continuous evolution under the most demanding conditions conceivable. Armed with these straightforward principles, any organization can achieve the high-impact responsiveness demanded by today's ultra-competitive, fast-changing business environments.
Anyone facing entrenched or predatory competitors, short time frames, chaotic markets, and obstacles in every direction, has a simple choice: Learn to move fast, change on the fly, and inspire employees--or die. The Marines are here to help.
Far from being the hidebound, autocratic entity that most people imagine, the Corps has created a stunningly nimble, almost freewheelingly adaptive organization. The result: Though often faced with extraordinarily dynamic and complex challenges, the Marines get the job done every time.
Interviews with more than 100 Marines of all ranks and observed in training we believe that business enterprises could benefit from Marine values. These include sacrifice, perseverance, integrity, commitment and loyalty. For the current business world -- where a firm's loyalty extends to only the next downsizing effort and an employee's to only the next vesting date -- it would seem as if the Marines do indeed have a better idea. ( David Freedman )
Corporate America could -- and does -- learn from the Corps' leadership curriculum. (226 years worth). All Marines who enter the private sector take those lessons with them.
"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don't have that problem." --Ronald Reagan--
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ARE YOU A LEADER ?
ARE YOU A MANAGER ?
ARE YOU A FOLLOWER ?
True leadership takes a lot of work and determination.
The first thing you must recognize is the difference between a LEADER and a MANAGER or a FOLLOWER.
Ask yourself these questions .
What is the most important for each question ?
1. The person in control or the people processing assignments ?
2. The objective or the team attempting the objective ?
3. Competent person in control or competent team members ?.
4. Informed person in control or informed team members ?.
5. What you think or what others think ?
6. Pride or Satisfaction ?
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Short definitions:
To lead is to be in the front of your followers leading the way.
A Leader inspires loyalty with a balance of the 6 items above.
A Manager tends to be item orientated and goal prioritized.
The leader leads by example.
The leader is always more successful than the Manager.
The leader is nothing without the followers.
The leader is always hard to find and in demand.
USMC and LEADING PEOPLE
Although these leadership concepts apply to the Marine Corps, if applied to business then improvements will be quite apparent and success more likely.The Corps developed leadership concepts over a long time and carved it from the many conflicts and situations demanded by their services.
All of these practices have been used by all of the successful leaders in history. In times when men would only follow the leader they believed in and would follow him anywhere, a leader had to rely on these concepts to win the hearts and minds of his followers.
Most of the true leaders were not born into or appointed to positions of power but instead used leadership qualities to become great leaders. Sometimes they were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time but still had to use good leadership for success.
Proven methods of leadership will imprint men and even civilian employees with qualities that remain with them for life. ie. " Once a Marine always a Marine"
ANSWER : ALL of the items are equal in importance. Return
if you see them all equal then you are a Leader. If one is more important than the other then you are leaning toward a Manager but If you can't decide then you lean more toward the Follower.
That is what makes being a Leader such a hard goal to accomplish.
Remember that the LEADER, the MANAGER and the FOLLOWER are all equally important. Each has specific requirements and results and all support each other. Without any one the others there is nothing.
Good Managers deal with objects, are good organizers and have immediate goals.
Good Leaders deal with people, objects, objectives with long and short term goals.
Good Followers do as directed and complete the goals or objectives and expect the leaders/managers to support them.
Any Follower can be more that what the Leader or Manager makes them.
Good Followers are formed by good Leaders. If you see this as not true then you are a manager.
Negative personality traits can deduct from the Leader, Manager or the Follower
This course is not part of or endorsed by the U. S. Marine Corps
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