Tom Peter's Leaderly List

I am a fan of Tom Peters.  Last week, Tom tweeted that he had posted a leadership self-assessment on his web site.  I took a look and given my fondness for leaderly lists, I retweeted the following:

A mini-MBA in leadership: @tom_peters: Tom's posted a leadership self-assessment at http://t.co/E85iX6cp46.
— Don Frederiksen (@donfred) May 31, 2013

If you are looking for a  quick checklist for leaderly actions, the summary at the bottom of the post provides that mini-MBA in leadership.

In your self assessment, ask yourself, am I a(n)   fill in the blank from the Peter's list.__

• "Aggressive listener."
• Expert at questioning.
• Meetings as leadership opportunity #1.
• Creating a "civil society."
• Expert at "helping."
• Expert at holding productive conversations.
• Fanatic about clear communications.
• Fanatic about training.
• Master of appreciation/acknowledgement.
• Effective at apology.
• Creating a culture of automatic helpfulness by all to all.
• Presentation excellence.
• Conscious master of body language.
• Master of hiring.
• Master of evaluating people.
• Time manager par excellence.
• Avid practitioner of MBWA/Managing By Wandering Around.
• Avid student of the process of influencing others per se.
• Student of decision making and devastating impact of irrational aspects thereof.
• Brilliantly schooled student of negotiation.
• Creating a no-nonsense execution culture.
• Meticulous about employee development/100% of staff.
• Student of the power of "d"iversity (all flavors of difference).
• Aggressive in pursuing gender balance.
• Making team-building excellence everyone's daily priority.
• Understanding value of matchless 1st-line management.
• Instilling "business sense" in one and all.

The list is a wealth of great reminders.   The entire post is indeed a mini-MBA in leadership.

Thanks for reading.  Please lead quietly

Don