Performance: The Secrets of Successful Behaviour

Chapter 4. What is performance-driven leadership?

	The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.
	--(Father Theodore Hesburgh, former president of Notre Dame University)

In the previous chapter we talked about leadership in terms of performance-accelerating behaviour and performance-sustaining behaviour and we described in general what we mean by these terms. But what does one actually do to accelerate or sustain performance? What do the specific behaviours look like? In conversations and discussions over a number of years with groups of managers (about 5,000 people in all), the managers identified the specific ...