i am a person with strong opinions and clear mind. i tend to see several sides of things and decide which way to go. Until the circumstances have changed and environment differs, i tend to stick to my plan. my readings of other leaders tends to favour this method. However, i have in recent times come in touch with people who would like to be leaders but seem very very opportunistic. this is a great idea, lets tie up with this person, lets move in with him.....nothing is moving in one direction but in several directions so the pace of real growth uneven, underpowered and unreliable.

If a vision wavers, is it strategic?

Management by betraying

If a marketing head runs down a company's product in order to make it look like he is making the product work, in spite of the product actually being very strong, what should the CEO do? Believe him or go out and check for himself. What if others in the organization dispute the claim. Should the still believe the marketing head and give higher budgets?

When a boss only listens to one person in the organization and that person is only intent on gathering more and more power, and hence will not allow any good idea from others to be implemented unless it is for his division - would you classify the boss as a fool or as a focused target oriented person (target being to get rid of others)

Imagine A is the head of a vertical with two offices and is based out of place X and rarely travels to Y (the other office). But he meets his targets and in the last performance review three months ago, was rated excellent by the CEO to whom he reports.

Then the CEO travels to Y and B, the head of another vertical that is based in Y complains saying she is doing all A's work in Y because A hardly travels here.

The CEO comes back and discuss what to do.

Take a shot at what needs to be done and I will tell you what actually happened.