Some Fundamental Realities of Leadership Development #5
In this letter, we continue to look at certain broad and overarching themes related to leadership building.

In this letter, we continue to look at certain broad and overarching themes related to leadership building.
In recent Letters, we discussed various fundamental issues related to building leaders. Here are some continuing thoughts on this matter.
We continue here to examine some broad, overarching realities concerning leadership development.
We continue here to examine some broad, overarching realities concerning leadership development.
Before we deal with the daily nitty-gritty of how leaders actually build leaders, in the next few Letters we will first examine some fundamental realities concerning leadership development.
Through focusing on building leaders, rather than on building organizations, we will avoid the common problem of vision displacement.
Healthy organizations have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. Rather than concentrating of coming up with new structures or policies in an effort to make the organization run effectively “by itself,” effective organizations start by getting capable, energized people in the right [...]
Healthy organizations have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. The ultimate test of a leader is not whether he makes smart decisions and takes effective action in the short term, but whether he teaches others to be leaders and builds an organization that can continue to be healthy [...]