Articulate
a vision
The best mangers or leaders are visionaries. They do not get caught up in the
minutiae or obsess over every detail, but instead inspire others to execute
on that vision.The manager articulates a general vision and communicate to
the team, the idea of laying out a general vision is to give direction to the
team and to empower them to turn it into reality. In order to make sure that
you have a confident team, allow them to make decisions and set stretch goals.
The key is helping people reach for the unreachable, and to celebrate when
they come close. That will build confidence into the fabric of the organization
and prepare the tem for the grater challenges.
Put
values first
Put values first then numbers. While numbers are, of course, times that numbers
must be discussed, but not always. Focus can be on the key behaviours and actions
tha will delight customers and win new business.
Rewrites
his agenda
Embracers of change come to work each and every day ready
to rewrite their agenda. Because change is constant, it
is not practical to expect one’s
agenda to go unchallenged, even for a single day. Whether it is a strategy
for business or career, do not develop a long term plan and blindly stick to
it. Have long-term goals, but be flexible and willing to change them when circumstances
change. While there is no crystal ball, it is useful to develop options and
alternative plans. Sometimes even the best laid plans don’t work out
so be prepared for the unexpected.
Set
stretch goals
Don’t ever settle for mediocrity. The key to stretch
is to reach for more than you think is possible. It is
better to reach for the impossible than
to settle for just another lackluster performance. Decimal point thinking should
be discouraged.
“…self
confident people know that it is quality of their effort
toward achieving the impossible that is achieving the ‘impossible’ that
is the ultimate measure.”
Quality
is your job
When we talk about quality, it's not only managers job
or we have to launch a company wide quality program to
make a difference. Every product, service,
memo, idea, report etc. bears a certain level of quality. Make sure to infuse
quality into everything you do. The best way to ensure quality is to understand
that it’s your job, 24 hours a day and seven days a week.
“Nothing
is constant but change!
All
existence is perceptual flux of being & becoming”
- Ernst Heinrich Haeckel
… for a conscious being to exist is to change, to change is to mature,
to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson, French philosopher
The
road to world class leadership is not o journey, it's a race!
Before you can figure out how to get where you are going,
you have to know where you are starting from.
“ What we are looking for…are leaders at every level who can energize,
excite and inspire rather than enervate, depress, and control.”
Don’t Manage….Lead
“How
do you bring people into change process? Start with reality …When
everybody gets the same facts, they’ll generally come
to the same conclusion.”
Don’t assume everything….Face reality
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