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Sunday, August 17, 2008
COMMAND (Mando) quotations & proverbs
Please post your favorite quotes and proverbs with regard to the Command talent!
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One barking dog sets the whole street barking.
Korean Proverb
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
I believe that people with Command, especially when combined with Ideation or Intellection, often like to go against the current, especially when they are in an environment of conformity.
A committee has been defined as a group of persons who follow a long and tortuous route to an obvious conclusion.
Author unknown
I think the Command folks like this one, at least I do!
Here is another joke about committees that the Comand folks may enjoy:
An American business executive was visiting in North Africa when he saw a camel for the first time. When asked what he thought of it, he wryly remarked: "It looks like a horse that was designed by a committee."
A word of caution to people with Command:
"When General Eisenhower was elected president, his predecessor, Harry S. Truman, said: "Poor Ike; when he was a general, he gave an order and it was carried out. Now he is going to sit in that big office and he'll give an order and not a damn thing is going to happen."
In "The Effective Executive" of Peter Drucker, p. 141
“Matt wanted to know if there was a downside to having Command as one of his top themes. He was essentially asking, "Can too much Command be bad? And if so, how do I dial it back?"…
If people are saying that Matt has too much Command, what they're really thinking is that Matt hasn't figured out how to leverage the talents in his Command theme in a positive manner. Matt's colleagues shouldn't blame his Command talents if he appears to be pushy or domineering. Rather, they -- and Matt -- should understand that he is not applying those talents productively to his job.
I also explained to Matt that it's nearly impossible for someone to "tone down" their top talent themes. Instead, he should focus on refining those talents and learning to use them in a more sophisticated way. Learning to use his Command talents more productively could be Matt's key to strengths development and increased success. He can also help others move beyond seeing him as "bossy" or "opinionated" and help them appreciate what his most powerful talents contribute to the organization. “
By Brian Brim, a Principal of Global Client Education with Gallup. Source: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/26365/Probing-Dark-Side-Employees-Strengths.aspx
"Insecure managers create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted planning books and busy slides filled with everything they have known since childhood. Real leaders don't need clutter. People must have the self-confidence to be clear, precise, to be sure that every person in the organization - highest to lowest - understands what the business is trying to achieve. But it's not easy. You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they are simple minded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple."
Jack Welch in "Winning"
I believe that the talents Self-Assurance, Command and Communication are very helpful in having the courage to keep things simple.
"Psychologists know that some people are limited, even crippled, by emotional blockages that prevent them from doing things that leadership requires. Such blockages may lead them to avoid unpleasant situations by ducking conflicts, procrastinating on decisions, or delegating with no follow-through."
Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan in "Execution - The Discipline of Getting Things Done", p. 79
I believe that people with strong and well developed Command are unlikely to suffer from such emotional blockages, with one important exception: if they have weak egos or are insecure. Then, the following may happen:
"A manager who is emotionally weak will avoid such people (who are better them him/her) out of fear that they will undercut his power. His tendency will be to protect is fragile authority."
Command is absolutely no guarantee against fragile egos.
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