Leadership should be simple and confident

“For a large organization to be effective, it must be
simple. For a large organization to be simple, its people must have
self-confidence and intellectual self-assurance. Insecure managers
create complexity. Frightened, nervous managers use thick, convoluted
planning books and busy slides filled with everything they’ve 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
their 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’re simpleminded. 

In
reality, of course, it’s just the reverse. 

Clear, tough-minded people
are the most simple.” ~ Jack Welch