Comments on: Great Leaders Surround Themselves With Great People! http://lawrencefineblogs.com/2008/05/great-leaders-surround-themselves-with-great-people/ Any day in which we learn, enjoy ourselves and help mankind is a good day Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:25:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Why Having Good Leaders Makes a Difference « just the GISt of it http://lawrencefineblogs.com/2008/05/great-leaders-surround-themselves-with-great-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1574 Why Having Good Leaders Makes a Difference « just the GISt of it Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:01:42 +0000 http://lawrencefine.com/blog/?p=9#comment-1574 [...] a project or consulting experts for technical advice and direction.  They aren’t afraid to surround themselves with smart people.  For example:  We’re building our GIS database utilizing ArcServer from the ground up.  When [...] [...] a project or consulting experts for technical advice and direction.  They aren’t afraid to surround themselves with smart people.  For example:  We’re building our GIS database utilizing ArcServer from the ground up.  When [...]

]]> By: Lawrence Fine http://lawrencefineblogs.com/2008/05/great-leaders-surround-themselves-with-great-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1549 Lawrence Fine Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:12:28 +0000 http://lawrencefine.com/blog/?p=9#comment-1549 The thing to understand is it's not that the people you are leading are necesarily smarter than you rather, that they are smarter than you in a specific field. The head of finance should know more about finance than you. The head of marketing should know more about marketing than you. this doesn't mean the marketing person is smarter than you (although he/she might be), just that they know more about their field than you. The other thing is to realize, people don't give you an IQ test before determining whether you are an effective leader. The majority of the people are looking to be lead, steup up and do it! Lawrence The thing to understand is it’s not that the people you are leading are necesarily smarter than you rather, that they are smarter than you in a specific field. The head of finance should know more about finance than you. The head of marketing should know more about marketing than you.

this doesn’t mean the marketing person is smarter than you (although he/she might be), just that they know more about their field than you.

The other thing is to realize, people don’t give you an IQ test before determining whether you are an effective leader. The majority of the people are looking to be lead, steup up and do it!

Lawrence

]]> By: Alice http://lawrencefineblogs.com/2008/05/great-leaders-surround-themselves-with-great-people/comment-page-1/#comment-1548 Alice Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:01:59 +0000 http://lawrencefine.com/blog/?p=9#comment-1548 Excellent points. So how do you go about leading people who are smarter than you? What sources can you recommend? Excellent points. So how do you go about leading people who are smarter than you? What sources can you recommend?

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