{"id":148,"date":"2006-07-11T05:40:43","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T11:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/148\/cubaya-management-essentials"},"modified":"2014-10-18T16:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T21:42:33","slug":"cumbaya-management-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/cumbaya-management-essentials\/148\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumbaya Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kumbaya Leadership. . . or, how to ensure that nothing gets done in your organization.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <a title=\"the leadership lessons from colin powell\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/colin-powell-on-leadership\/424\/\">true leadership<\/a>, Kumbaya Leadership is a whole different flavor all together. Here are a few examples to describe what I mean.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Make sure that your organization has an unbalanced number of ex-management consultants who have mastered the art of business-speak, have never managed an operation or people, are greasily good at selling an idea but are completely inept at execution.<\/li>\n<li>Concensus &#8212; yes, build concensus and ensure a zealous focus on concensus because this just might lead to paralysis and then nothing will get done in your organization.<\/li>\n<li>Grandiose quotes framed on every employee&#8217;s wall proclaiming belief in something that is worthy and true but made very cheesy by that framed quote &#8212; make sure all your people have one &#8212; no, two, of these.<\/li>\n<li>Must Have: Amorphous and generic mission statements &#8212; these are great and are meaningless. Make sure your organization has one or several and make sure that each department has one too &#8212; and spend days or several hours with dedicated FTE&#8217;s to create one.<\/li>\n<li>3\/4 or more of your organization should be Business Development folks &#8212; this way, everyone can focus on growing the business instead of running the current one.<\/li>\n<li>Pedigree &#8212; yes, not the dog-kind, but the school kind. Make sure the people in your organization rely on their pedigree instead of accomplishment. Quotes like &#8220;I&#8217;ve never managed an operation but I learned about it at b-school at [name drop here]&#8221; is what you want to hear to ensure zero gets done in your organization.<\/li>\n<li>Retreats and Gratuitious Offsite Meetings &#8212; yes, hold several of these over the fiscal year &#8212; 2 or 3 per month is ideal. I&#8217;m not talking about the fun, go-to-a-movie kind, but the full-blown, emotional, facilitator-led kind with highly paid facilitators that tell great stories, make you laugh, but leave you and the team empty: a twinkie-like experience &#8212; twinkies taste good, but have no substance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>There are more . . . from your experience, what are some of yours?<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kumbaya Leadership. . . or, how to ensure that nothing gets done in your organization. Unlike true leadership, Kumbaya Leadership is a whole different flavor all together. Here are a few examples to describe what I mean. 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