Dr.
Tom DePaoli Explains Why He Wrote Two leadership Books
I wanted two leadership books. One would explore the dark
side of leadership and the other the authentic or good side. Unfortunately, I
had more stories about the dark side and many were just awful. The authentic
side stories are not as numerous. The stories are all authentic and real life
based for both books. I myself or my colleagues actually experienced them. They
are only slightly changed to protect the identity of some of the leaders. The
dark side was maybe a little too dramatic. It does have some redundant and
repetitious stories. This is not my fault or an editing fault. Dark leaders are
not very creative. Many use the same tired and sorry tactics. However, the
situations were even more dramatic and uncomfortable for the followers. Boogeyman Leadership: How to Turn Your
Employees into Listless Zombies describes all too common
leadership tactics that numb employees into becoming animated drones. I urge the reader to not read it from start
to end but to jump around in the book.
The other book Leadership by Storytelling: The Best Way
to Learn Good Leadership Principles is
peppered with uplifting and inspirational leadership action. Good leaders, who
care, will learn much from this book and the authentic stories.
Both books are available on Amazon.
Here are my Leadership Principles
Good Leadership Principles
1. Never
lie to your followers or your superiors. Keep your word always.
2. Listen
to your followers’ problems and help them.
3.
Don’t
believe what you hear from the media or so-called experts. Be skeptical.
4.
Stand
up for what you believe in. Do not be silent to idiots or insanity.
5. Never
neglect details. Walk the process. Do it yourself to learn how to do it.
6.
On
many things do not ask permission ask for forgiveness. Always try to make
things better. Show initiative.
7.
This
is not a perfect world, so there are many opportunities to improve. So,
improve.
8. Hire
the best people, get people who are better and smarter than you.
9.
Encourage
people to always improve their skills. Lead by example here.
10. Don’t chase the latest management
fads. The situation usually dictates which approach best accomplishes the
team’s mission.
11. Be positive always, but do not sugar
coat a crisis.
12. Look for people with integrity and
intelligences and who care about and help others.
13. Offer solutions, not problems and try
to keep the solutions simple.
14. Go with your gut if you do not have
enough data. Avoid data paralysis.
15. Always trust the people in the field,
closer to the work or on the shop floor more.
16. Have fun, work hard and play hard. Do
these with your team.
17. Leadership is lonely but accept the
blame as it arrives on your desk.
18. Leadership is the art of accomplishing
the impossible, so what if no one has ever done it before. Do it.
19. Share your hard lessons learned with
others. Do not embellish them.
20. Be humble but be confident.
21. Praise people who do a good job often.
22. Treat people like you would like to be
treated.
23. Work
hard and volunteer for the tough assignments.
24. Be pleasant, positive and polite.
25. Always do your best even for the tasks
that you hate to do.
26. Take an interest in people, not toys,
technology or hardware.
Biography
Dr. Tom DePaoli, (Dr. Tom) is currently an independent
management consultant-author, the CEO of Apollo Solutions, which does general
business consulting in the human resources, supply chain and lean six sigma
areas. His organization was self-founded in 1995. He retired as a Captain from
the Navy Reserve. In other civilian careers, he was a supply chain and human
resources executive with corporate purchasing turnaround experience and lean
six sigma deployments. He has worked for over ten major companies and consulted
for over fifty organizations throughout his career. Some of his consulting
projects include: information systems projects, re-engineering organizations,
transformation, e-procurement, e-commerce, change management, global sourcing
and negotiating. His industry experience is in the chemical, paper,
pharmaceutical, IT, automotive, government, consumer, equipment, services and
consulting industries. He has been published extensively in journals, magazines
and books. He is the author of eleven books all available on Amazon. He has instructed at six education facilities
in numerous roles. He is active in
supporting the YMCA, Wounded Warrior, and the prevention of the bullying of
children.
https://www.amazon.com/author/tomdepaoli = Dr. Tom’s Amazon author’s page
http://www.apollosolutions.us = website of Apollo Solutions his business
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