1. Clarity about Purpose
2. Honesty about values
3. Focus about metrics
1. Clarity about Purpose
- Your people need to see what you see.
- Your people need to understand how you connect-the-dots so they can see the pattern you see.
- They need to see and understand your template to guide their actions.
2. Honesty about values
- Your people want to know what you feel.
- Tell them what the company stands for.
- Make an uncompromising statement of the code of conduct that guides your organization.
- Then live by it yourself and hold them to it.
- They’ll rally to this kind of leadership.
3. Focus about metrics
- They want to track what YOU measure.
- Tell them the few things that really matter when it comes to measuring performance – as few as possible.
- Too many things to measure and you’re adding NOISE, not SIGNAL.
Successful Leaders are Very Creative
- They live by the mantra, “None of us is as smart as ALL of us.”
- They see life as an adventure and each new challenge as something to look forward to with eagerness.
- They are secure with themselves.
- Leaders get involved; they get involved with people and learn about them so they can leverage their successes and learn from their failures.
- Leaders are flexible, not only with accepting change but ANTICIPATING it.
Webber reminds us that in Good to Great, Collins explains that every company that made the leap from good to great had a leader who could express the company's purpose in a single short sentence. It’s not breadth of vision that defines good-to-great leaders but clarity of focus.
Happy leading!
Ruth
