Jim Leyland recently retired as manager of the Detroit Tigers baseball time. In his good bye and thank you remarks he said this (among other things): "My goal coming here was to turn talent into team, and with the help of the entire organization, we did that."
Now there's a goal for leaders everywhere - turn talent in to team. I don't know how to measure that; and each leader will proceed based on his/her personality and style; but what a glorious end to strive for. Talent into team. And it was not just his doing. It took the entire organization. Everybody played a role. It wasn't up to only one person or another; but to the entire enterprise from top to bottom and back again (at least that is how I choose to interpret the quote).
What are your thoughts? Observations? Insights?
Mine start and end with if I were working and in a leadership position I would take Jim Leyland's quote to heart and do whatever I could to achieve his goal.
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