A great lead from Asra

We've just come back from an Enterpreneurship Module at LBS ...all of us are rather ruffled ..I guess....looking for more meaning and depth in our lives....Asra ..has sent a great link ...do read through ...

http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=5957&tag=nl.e713

whats more interesting are some of the comments ..to mention a few..this one from Denise

While I applaud Cameron for breaking new cinematic ground with his amazing visual/sound effects, the bottomline is this best selling box office movie did not win Best Picture. Hmmm ... wonder why?In my book, innovation for innovation sake (without a grander reason or purpose) -- which is the basis of Avatar -- has no real sustainable advantage or benefit. It's a novelty but wears off quickly. Now if you want to talk about a director that is a master at innovation/creativity with a purpose, then Spielberg is at the top of the list.Jobs is very different than Cameron in that regard. Apple's focus on innovation and its relationship to create their own markets is unmatched in the business world. They know how to read their "market's minds" and know their customers' wants and hot buttons better than their customers know themselves. Jobs is a genius in that regard.As far as inspiring by fear, most leaders could not pull that off and get the results that Jobs or Cameron get. First, you have to have the respect of your followers. Second, the overly demanding expectations of a leader must be perceived for the employee's benefit, not a power trip by the leader who is doing for their own ego reasons.
Corcorandenise@empoweredbusiness.com


an author...and this one from a guy called Probotics....

The problem with these observations is that in other leaders at other times they have been exactly the wrong approach. Think of the tyrants, the perfectionists and the grand visionaries that have destroyed your projects in the past. The article is right to discourage relatively inexperienced MBA students from using these as appropriate approaches. Chase perfection at any cost has destroyed uncountable projects and is a classic problem for young consultants. Rule by fear has destroyed entire companies. Wall street is famous for that one, but it's in consulting as well. The cause of Jobs and Cameron's success is no doubt an intricate combination of their skill, their timing, the people around them, the business environment, circumstances, technologies, business cycles and more. Emphasizing only three characteristics ignores that they probably emphasized or de-emphasized those characteristics as the environment demanded. Its the intricacy that makes it dangerous for MBAs - many just don't yet have the depth of judgment necessary to choose when, where and how to apply them.