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Good Leadership Eliminates Waste

I write a lot about leadership. I have developed and presented leadership training to a lot of organizations and people. They learned about inspiring, motivating developing and communicating a vision. In every case, from the US Army to Corporate America these leaders have used those skills to reduce waste, or if you prefer, to reduce cost. I am not claiming responsibility for the outcomes they created. I am saying that regardless of their environment each of them has, through the leadership skills they learned, honed and used, contributed to their organizations in such a way as to reduce or eliminate waste.

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Now I know that a failure of leadership is something we have all either heard of…or experienced. Unless our entire existence is spent playing video games and texting like-minded others we have seen leadership fail.

Leadership failure happens for a variety of reasons. For example:

• It can come from the leader losing interest
• It can come from the leader’s departure
• It can come because the leader was never able to obtain buy in for their vision
• It can come from the leader never really being a leader

While not all of the reasons leaders fail those 4 can cover most of the reasons and experiences we have had. There is a 5th reason not mentioned above. A reason in my view and experience covers almost every reason leaders fail. It is a loss of courage.

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