{"id":5,"date":"2003-07-25T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-25T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2003-07-25T13:09:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-25T18:09:00","slug":"mort-meyerson-on-the-real-job-of-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2003\/07\/mort-meyerson-on-the-real-job-of-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Mort Meyerson on the Real Job of Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/02\/meyerson.html\">Fast Company | Everything I Thought I Knew about Leadership Is Wrong<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article goes way back to the 2nd issue of FastCompany, back in 1996.  It came to mind recently as I thought of people who have influenced my leadership thinking.  Mort Meyerson is certainly one of those people.<\/p>\n<p>His take on our job as leaders? <\/p>\n<p>First: Make sure that the organization knows itself. Embody the values of the organization and focus on relationships. <\/p>\n<p>Second: Surround yourself with great people and an environment where they can succeed. It&#8217;s more than fostering collaboration and teamwork.  We&#8217;re coaches, not executives.<\/p>\n<p>Third: Be accessible.  In an age where face-to-face is becoming more rare, be accessible.<\/p>\n<p>Though the business world is quite different from 1996, Mort&#8217;s insights still inspire me today.  Enjoy.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast Company | Everything I Thought I Knew about Leadership Is Wrong This article goes way back to the 2nd issue of FastCompany, back in 1996. It came to mind recently as I thought of people who have influenced my leadership thinking. Mort Meyerson is certainly one of those people. His take on our job&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/2003\/07\/mort-meyerson-on-the-real-job-of-leaders\/#more-5\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p488Wj-5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leadershipintherealworldblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}