Canadian ice hockey great Wayne Gretzky defined a great hockey player as a person who knows to skate where the puck is going to be. That can define great leadership as well. That ability to "see" where things are going is important. And in business, unlike in sports, you have the additional advantage of being able to DECIDE where things are going.
The power of goals to influence behaviour has been proven so many times in so many ways. The key take-away is that as you look ahead at the final quarter of 2009, it is more important to create challenging and exciting goals that your staff can rally around than it is to lament what has already happened. Move from the past into the future. Go to where the puck is going to be. It's about you being opportunistic about the future. Leadership has many burdens. It has many joys as well.
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