Doesn't this list seem incomplete to you?
Maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet, but Nicholson's type B seems a bit of a contradiction: Competition by default requires the assent and standards of achievement accorded by groups of people whether you're competing against peers or as a team against outsiders. And peacemakers may "have no interest in managing people" but they sure must have people and political skills which brings us back to the accord and assent thing above. (Speaking as a Creative Director with experience in various media-centric businesses, I've yet to see one that's run well on the Machine Bureacracy model for any sustained length of time. That's not because procedures are evil, it's just that they don't hold up well in such a fluid business with often recalcitrant creative talent. Holding companies like WPP or Time-Warner, sure, but the rest, very rare.
What did Nicholsaon say about Type A?
Remember that band?
"Rage Against the Machine Bureaucracy'??
Anthony, doesn't Rage Against the Machine want a bureacracy running things? Or are they anarchists?
Fouro.
I wondered about the peace-maker remark too but reproduced it because the idea with the status-not-dominance seeker is that she won't have such a strong urge to push people around. And the implication is therefore that she will be better a politician.
I don't think he's saying that creative types thrive in a machine bureacracy tho I might have worded it to give that impression by mistake. What he meant was that a creative person who is more interested in being creative than managing would qualify as a Type B.
Re Type A. Castro is the classic type. And he compares him to fellow-Cuban Robert Goizueta of Coca Cola who was also a Type A with perhaps a slightly lower drive for dominance. So he took the professional eminence route to the top but was quite ready to take power when the opportunity came.
Fouro, he's not drawing an exact parallel between faceless technocrats and creative media types. Tho, according to him they do have certain drive in common.
Gotcha. Seems like there's still a gap for the "authoritative" leader--one with an idealism that conveys to the organization--I suppose, to follow the Latin theme, one like Ricardo Semler.
I've always been fairly impressed with the Adzies model of leadership, in which there are 4 traits:
P=performance (getting things done)
A=administration(organization, structure, control)
E=entrepreneurship (creativity)
I=integration (team-building, diplomacy)
Fouro, Nicholson spends a fair bit of time discussing Semler. If you're interested in him, I'll post something about it.
Dave, sounds interesting. If I can find something on the net I'll post about it.
Semler? Yeah, if you've got time you thinks it's useful. "Maverick" is on my read/wish list, but so's half of Publisher's news.
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