Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School managed a Twitter conversation with alumni recently, asking the question “How Do YOU Define Leadership?” There are a lot of smart responses in the Storify version of the dialog. It isn’t easy to say something thoughtful about such a broad subject in 140 characters, but many folks did!

Here are my own responses from the Storify / Twitter conversation:

Q: "How do YOU define leadership?"

— HBS Alumni (@HBSAlumni) September 13, 2013

@HBSAlumni Inspiring a group of people / team to accomplish a mission. Any team, any mission, any context.

— Don Mathis (@Mathis_DHM) September 13, 2013

.@KineticDHM thanks for joining the chat! We're curious..what types of leadership challenges do you face and how do you address them?

— HBS Alumni (@HBSAlumni) September 14, 2013

@HBSAlumni My challenge is a tech start-up. Like pushing Sisyphus’ boulder… Rest a bit, it rolls backwards. Rest more, it rolls over you.

— Don Mathis (@Mathis_DHM) September 14, 2013

@HBSAlumni momentum is everything & flows from leadership. Leadership = getting the team & ALL stakeholders motivated around the vision.

— Don Mathis (@Mathis_DHM) September 14, 2013

@HBSAlumni As R. Kaplan says, you motivate around vision by (over) communication. Time enough in a day to do that = my biggest challenge.

— Don Mathis (@Mathis_DHM) September 14, 2013

.@KineticDHM thanks for such thoughtful responses! FYI, in case you didn't know Robert Kaplan is on Twitter at @RobSKaplan 🙂

— HBS Alumni (@HBSAlumni) September 14, 2013

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