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You don’t have to be the smartest or, even necessarily, the best to rise to positions of leadership.
Leadership quote from Peter Drucker:
“No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.”
1. Learn better management techniques:
There is a difference between leadership and management, but leaders need the skill set of a manager in order to complete the active job of leadership.
2. Organize and plan every project and task:
Even when you don’t have the time to plan, the critical element of continuous success is planning – put some cognitive power behind your tasks.
3. Delegate through empowering your people:
The members of your team will respond to the tasks that you delegate if they are constructive to their desires to participate in the team – use that desire.
4. Always seek improvement:
Continuous improve leads to continuously getting better; what ever measure you assign, whether effectiveness or efficiency, be a change agent and seek improvement.
5. Move past mistakes:
Sorry, your not perfect, but good news – no one is! Just follow step number 6.
6. Never make the same mistake twice:
I don’t want to advocate beating yourself up over a mistake, but make certain the lesson is learned and the problem is mitigated.
7. Pay attention to the little things:
At the end of it all, the details are the weakest links that cause most of the problems – pay attention.
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7 LeaderGonnaBe.com // Nov 25, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Hi Jonathan, it’s a very good message, showing that everyone can become a leader, keep on improving, learn from your mistake, with hard work and persistence, we can be a great leader!
All e best!
8 Jon // Nov 26, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Thank you for your comment. It is possible for each individual to develop the elemental steps to being a leader.
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