[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Leadership]] - People: Bob Davids - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQrPVmcgJJk --- ## Summary - [[Leaders don't get people to believe in them, they get people to believe in themselves.]] - [[Don't push - Pull. Lead, and others may follow]]. - [[Power compounds because it is shared]]. - [[Integrity is the key to genuine leadership. A rare character trait but without integrity it's misleading that people do.]] - Take your shoes off and jump into the trenches with everybody else. Show, tell, and let go. ## Notes ### Up the organization - "[Up the organization](https://www.amazon.ca/Up-Organization-Corporation-Stifling-Strangling/dp/0787987751)", written by Bob Townsend (transformed Avis into a rent-a-car company), was a released in the 1960's and is still influential and relevant today. - It's a book about leadership and culture building without ego. - "No, never do an MBA. There's too many managers already! The world is short of leaders. We don't need more managers." - Bob Davids, paraphrasing Bob Townsend. - Management and leadership is not the same thing. ### Management - Management is about **control**. It's about working with what you have and ensuring that it degrades as slowly as possible. - In business, there's this concept of the "triple constraint of management". 3 things, and only 3 things, you can control: Quality, time, and money. "Whichever one of those 3 takes precedence, the other 2 will suffer". - See [[Project management triangle]] - [[Good, fast, cheap. Choose two]]. - "[[Control is the management, the interplay, of time, quality, and money]]" ### Leadership - "People fall under leadership." - [[Don't push - Pull. Lead, and others may follow]]. - Avoid lifetime problems by fixing the foundation early. - Take your shoes off and jump into the trenches. - Show, tell, and let go. - "[[Power comes from people who are leading give you their support]]". - [[Power compounds because it is shared]]. - [[Integrity is the key to genuine leadership. A rare character trait but without integrity it's misleading that people do.]] - [[Leaders don't get people to believe in them, they get people to believe in themselves.]] - "You need to be in touch with the people you lead. You need to be in their shoes."