If you missed Alex Knapp’s article on the five leadership lessons of James T. Kirk you really should read it. Or, if you prefer, you can watch Alex’s video version which he recorded at Forbes headquarters in New York.
Video after the leap…
Seriously great stuff from Alex lately, who is now conquering the internet one geeked out leadership lesson at a time.
Don’t forget to read his blog here.
Well done, Alex!Report
Along with Five Leadership Lessons of Jean-Luc Picard and Five Leadership Mistakes of the Galactic Empire. Is it Geek Week at Forbes, Alex?
The Kirk one is very nicely tongue-in-cheek:
With his boots on the ground, he was always able to make quick assessments of the situation, leading to superior results. At least, superior for everyone with a name and not wearing a red shirt.Report
Enough with leadership! I’m looking forward to “Five Objections to Technological Progress from Dr. Leonard H. McCoy.” Either that, or “Five Tips for Interstellar Romance from Commander William Riker.”
But these were great.Report
I think you just dragooned yourself into representing the good doctor’s position, Mr. Wall.Report
The Five Leadership Lessons of Col. Walter Kurtz:
1. If all around you failure and incompetence run rampant…. run.
2. Never trust anyone without ass meat on the line.
3. Accountability, like power, varies with the inverse square of distance.
4. Where other forms of persuasion fail, fear works miracles.
5. To thine own self be true, for you can bet your bottom dollar nobody else wants to hear it.Report
Sell the house.
Sell the car.
Sell the kids.
Find someone else.
Forget it. I’m never coming back. Forget it.Report
It seems, as one becomes older,
That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence—
Or even development: the latter a partial fallacy
Encouraged by superficial notions of evolution,
Which becomes, in the popular mind, a means of disowning the past.
The moments of happiness—not the sense of well-being,
Fruition, fulfilment, security or affection,
Or even a very good dinner, but the sudden illumination—
We had the experience but missed the meaning,
And approach to the meaning restores the experience
In a different form, beyond any meaning
We can assign to happiness. I have said before
That the past experience revived in the meaning
Is not the experience of one life only
But of many generations—not forgetting
Something that is probably quite ineffable:
The backward look behind the assurance
Of recorded history, the backward half-look
Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.Report
Ah, I’m an Eliot fan. A big one (click on my name). I should have been a pair of ragged claws.Report
I’m a little disappointed that not one of the five involve putting someone’s head on a pike.Report
Number 4 does.Report
Alex – when you are a multimillionaire best-selling business book author, will you take me with you to your land of milk and honey?Report
Those that can, do. Those that can’t write books on the subject.Report
,,, may I hasten to add, present company excepted. Still, I could make a fire to be seen for miles with first editions of worthless management books. Nor have I seen anyone with an MBA capable of managing his way out of a paper bag.Report
I’ve actually read a number of good management books, maybe I just have selection bias since I don’t browse.
On the other hand, I’m entirely certain that most people who get an MBA walk into an organization having spent all their time obsessing about quant stuff and probably not paying much attention at all in the organizational behavior classes.
It’s a very weird phenomenon.Report