Management and leadership guru, Tom Peters, weighs in with "50 ways of being a leader in freaked-out times." Yes, he's talking directly about business management, but any lay or professional leader will find excellent ideas for moving beyond stereotypes and outdated assumptions.
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Think of pre-1990 as the Age of Sucking Up to the Hierarchy. The Age of the Promise 'Em Everything Pitch lasted from 1995 to 2000. The next five years will be the Age of No-Bull Performance. Which means that we're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business -- the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply. And that means that over the next five years, we're going to have to reckon with a new, unorthodox, untested, maybe just plain freaked-out list of leadership qualities: 50 ways of being a leader in freaked-out times.
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Posted on June 5, 2002 07:01 AM