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+title: A Leader Gets a Group of People From Point A To Point B
+date: 2024-06-13T20:18:41-07:00
+tags: leadership
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+Bad leaders choose the wrong goal or fail to choose one at all. Their group ends up worse off. Divisive leaders optimize for a subgroup and the 'in' group is more happy, the 'out' group is less happy. They are playing a zero-sum game. Selfish leaders are an extreme of the divisive leader--the selfish leader IS the 'in' group.
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+Good leaders choose a goal where everyone wins, and they achieve it.
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+The better the leader, the bigger and better the outcomes and the bigger and broader 'everyone' turns out to be. Alan Mulally famously [turned Ford around][https://www.amazon.com/American-Icon-Mulally-Fight-Company/dp/0307886069], taking them from losing $17B/year to profitable and growing. He got Ford's zero-sum-game-playing shareholders, executives, employees, car dealers, bankers, factory worker, union leaders, and parts suppliers to align, sacrifice, work, and win or lose together.
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+Thank you to [Chris Jenson][https://files.tablegroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/09201856/TTGBio-Jenson-050620.pdf] from the [Table Group][https://www.tablegroup.com/] who was my coach and first told me "a leader gets a group of people from point A to point B" and I liked that statement so much I kept repeating it and thinking about it and blogging about it.