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THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY
Tammy Morin Nakashima
Leadership Legacies that Inspire
Do you remember when the word TEAM in business first became a buzzword? It caught my attention back when.
It was revolutionary to characterize the boss as a member of a team alongside the staff. The archaic office hierarchy was being replaced with a more innovative mindset where workers and bosses alike were being recognized as equally valuable and essential to the success of the company. That new model of thinking has generated great success for the likes of Starbucks and Google.
There is much to be said about company structure. Styles are described as • vertical, meaning the familiar multiple-layer reporting, and • horizontal, denoting minimal layers of management.
Both styles recognize at the core that the cohesive team yields the best results.
Dr. Richard Ronay, a professor at Columbia Business School and author of The Path to Glory is Paved With Hierarchy, borrows from a Kellogg School of Management study referencing company styles against basketball and baseball teams. He states, “Basketball teams rely heavily on co-ordination for success… . A baseball’s team’s success…is based on the sum of individual contributions.”
Josh Bersin writes that Deloitte launched a study of people challenges in business, “Deloitte Human Capital Trends 2016.” A timely subject, it discusses organization and demands in business today. In its studies of the workforce, the article notes, “Millennials, which now make up more than 50% of the workforce (more in many countries), are looking for mission and values at work, and when they work in small teams they need a shared culture to ensure that strategies, programs and compliance take place in a consistent way.”
Deloitte has done many studies— compliance programs, for example, that always show building a culture of compliances is far more effective than giving people tools or processes to make sure they do as they are told.
Whichever style you adopt, what remains consistent is that people need to work together to yield the best results. And the right Team Leader will make all the difference.
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni says, “Not Finance. Not Strategy. Not Technology. It is team work that remains the ultimate competitive advantage because it is so powerful and so rare.”
Jack Canfeld in his book The Success Principles states, “Every high achiever has a powerful team of key staff members, consultants, vendors and helpers… .”
Together with this from Dolly Parton, “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then you are an excellent leader,” all those statements succinctly encapsulate the fundamentals needed for an organization to succeed.
From my seat on the Boards of The Society of Notaries Public of BC and The Notary Foundation, I can proudly say we know those principles to be true. The solid leadership of The Society’s Executive Director Wayne Braid during these past 17 years is a sterling example of a legacy.
As a high achiever with an incomparable work ethic, coupled with his respect for and insight into people and his gift for bringing out their best, Wayne has inspired us to dream more, learn more, and become more.
Our undying gratitude to you, Wayne, our Leader who has not wavered or been deterred. Team Notary is strong and well! s
