Rediff has published an excellent article on Team Leadership. This article is an excerpt of the book ‘ What Type Of Leader Are You? by Ginger Lapid-Bogda‘. The essentials of the leadership are given excellently and the following are listed in the article.

• Provide Team Leadership
• Create a team vision
• Attract and develop Team Talent
• Design a Team Architecture
• Establish Effective Team Processes
• Build a Team Culture
• Assure Quality products and services

These competencies are identified carefully and this covers all spheres of leadership. If a leader plans the activities to ensure his tasks falls under these list, he can grow as a excellent leader. This is one of the checklist I am using now to plan my activities to ensure that I do not fall under the category of bad leaders

Many times I used to think what is the exact role of Chief Operation Officer (COO) in many organizations. The first impression of the job title might suggest that their role is to run the business on daily basis. Nathen Bennet & Stephen A Miles in their article in “Indian Management” (July 2006 issue) lists 7 kinds of COO and the roles they play.

The excerpts
1. The executor - Responsible for executing the strategies developed by the top management. Responsible for delivering results on a day to day basis

2. The Change Agent – To lead a specific strategic initiative or a major organisational change.

3. The Mentor – To mentor a young inexperianced CEO. As the CEO develops, this COO role might either disappear or be heavily restructured.

4. The Other Half – To compliment the CEO’s experiance, style, knowledge base

5. The Partner – If CEO is a kind of person who works best with a partner.

6. The Heir apparent - To groom the company’s CEO Elect

7. The MVP – As a promotion to an executive considered too valuable to lose