100 More Great Leadership Ideas

 

LET THE ORGANISATION MANAGE ITSELF

 

LEADERS SHOULD BE CONCERNED with strategy, not operational execution. Set up the organisation so that colleagues understand what they need to do, and are driven by their customers. Colleagues can then agree how best to achieve that aim.

The idea

Zhang Ruimin, CEO of China’s home appliance manufacturer Haier Group, is attempting to move the company to a position where the CEO has little or no involvement in operational execution. ‘My larger hope is that the question of who sits in the CEO’s chair is of less and less importance,’ Zhang told Harvard Business Review. ‘Haier should not be a company ruled ...