| Book Two |
| Written by Ron Potter |
| Wednesday, 11 March 2009 12:09 pm PDT |
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The name of my company Team Leadership Culture, LLC (TLC for short) outlines my consulting practice. When I work with clients, I try to focus on all three (TLC) to help bring about lasting and productive growth and change. When Wayne Hastings and I wrote our first book, Trust Me, Developing a Leadership Style People Will Follow, I thought we were going to include all three elements. However, as the writing process proceeded, the focus of the book narrowed to the Leadership element. In the end we were very pleased with the content and the structure of Trust Me and we continue to receive great feedback on how the book has had positive impact on people’s leadership style and life in general.
And yet, it’s impossible to think of great leaders who are not also great team builders and shapers of great cultures. So, with our second “book” we will now turn our attention to the team building element of great leadership. While I’m calling it a book, it will not take the traditional book publishing route. The book industry is in a great state of transition and transformation. Electronic media is the way to proceed these days so even though our writings may at some point be collected and expressed with ink on paper, for now we are going to present our team building ideas in the form of blogs. Wayne’s blog, “Off the Shelf” (http://waynehastings.blogs.com/) will carry our team building concepts as well as posts from his retailing background and publishing industry executive perspective. My blog will concentrate on the same concepts as well as other leadership development topics that I’m working on at the time. As a reader I believe you will find it interesting and informative to read both blog sites as we each take different views of the outlined topics. It’s important and essential that our Trust Me book on great leadership principles came first. If a leader attempts to follow the guidelines of team building without first genuinely incorporating the individual principles of Trust Me, they will be seen as nothing more than hypocritical. The eight principles from Trust Me are:
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