Every Tuesday, we’re sharing valuable and practical leadership tips and tools to help you BE a better leader so you can BECOME a better leader. Remember … you won’t BECOME a better leader until you start BEING a better leader … implementing NOW the changes necessary to adopt the proven strategies of successful leaders.
You might start by building on the communication matrix and making sure you’re defending the castle to get done what only you can do. Make sure to take some time so you’re thinking past today.
Our new series on the building blocks of L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. continues today. You should read the introductory article, The Cornerstones of Effective Leadership, and continue with L = Loyalty, E = Excellence, A = Attitude, D = Discipline and E = Education.
This concept is pretty simple, isn’t it?
We expect that Sam’s mom will pick up our child from school when promised … that our salary increase will take effect as scheduled … that our boss will fight for our marketing budget as he said he would. We expect our leaders to have our back, to be responsive, to honor their word and generally do what they say they’re going to do when they say they’re going to do it.
It’s simple … but when it’s absent, it can be paralyzing.
How many times have you said to someone, “I’ll take care of it,” and somehow failed to accomplish the task you assumed?
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We’re always sharing valuable and practical leadership tips and tools to help you BE a better leader so you can BECOME a better leader. Remember … you won’t BECOME a better leader until you start BEING a better leader … implementing NOW the changes necessary to adopt the proven strategies of successful leaders.
You might start by building on the communication matrix and making sure you’re defending the castle to get done what only you can do. Make sure to take some time so you’re thinking past today.
Our new series on the Cornerstones of L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. continues today. You should read the introductory article, The Cornerstones of Effective Leadership, and continue with L = Loyalty, E = Excellence, A = Attitude, D = Discipline.
Our first reaction to that word is usually to think about our own education, and we certainly must be committed to educate ourselves to be the best leaders possible. One of the cornerstones of successful leadership is to be a lifelong learner and continually advance our own education to become as knowledgeable and well informed as possible.
You must become an Educator of Other People
But, that’s only the ante to get a seat at the table. To be a great leader, you need
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Every Tuesday, we’re sharing valuable and practical leadership tips and tools to help you BE a better leader so you can BECOME a better leader. Remember … you won’t BECOME a better leader until you start BEING a better leader … implementing NOW the changes necessary to adopt the proven strategies of successful leaders. You might start by building on the communication matrix and making sure you’re defending the castle to get done what only you can do. Make sure to take some time so you’re thinking past today.
Our new series on the building blocks of L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. continues today. You should read the introductory article, The Cornerstones of Effective Leadership, and continue with L = Loyalty, E = Excellence and A = Attitude.
In our Cornerstones of Effective Leadership series, we’ve covered some steadfast qualities of an effective leader: L = Loyalty, E = Excellence and A = Attitude. These are invaluable building blocks of the successful leader but little would be accomplished without this next quality.
It’s never been harder to be an effective executive given the rush of information that races through our offices every day. Supplemented by the surfeit of email, social media, chat, messaging — the ability to communicate instantly and globally with customers, employees and colleagues, the data flow becomes a seductive temptress. We stay informed, communicate rapidly and respond to inquiries wherever we are in our 24/7 world. We easily succumb to the seduction because the temptress offers immediate gratification and comfort.
I’ve written previously about Steve Jobs’ conviction that his most important mission is to make sure Apple decides what not to do, an axiom known as, “Get rid of all the crappy stuff.” Likewise, in the growing body of work under the heading
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Every Wednesday, we’re sharing valuable and practical leadership tips and tools to help you BE a better leader so you can BECOME a better leader. Remember … you won’t BECOME a better leader until you start BEING a better leader … implementing NOW the changes necessary to adopt the proven strategies of successful leaders. You might start by building on the communication matrix and making sure you’re defending the castle to get done what only you can do. Make sure to take some time so you’re thinking past today.
Our new series on the building blocks of L.E.A.D.E.R.S.H.I.P. continues today. You should read the introductory article, The Cornerstones of Effective Leadership, and begin with L = Loyalty and E = Excellence.
There’s nothing more destructive of our first two l.e.a.d.e.r.s.h.i.p. building blocks — LOYALTY and EXCELLENCE — than a bad ATTITUDE.
Attitude is an unarguable characteristic of successful leadership and superior performance, and for many reasons. On one side, a positive attitude is a breath of fresh air to which we naturally gravitate.
It is usually accompanied by a can-do attitude, a commitment to excellence, a desire to be a collaborative teammate, a willingness to take on new challenges in foreign environments, a general approach that sees the glass half-full rather than half-empty.
No challenge is too great because a positive attitude is the sorcerer of the unbridled optimism that helps us overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. It also a magnet for new opportunities and as we know, success is achieved when opportunity meets excellence.
On the other side, a bad attitude is a lethal virus
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