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Best-Practices Leadership
A leader in an organization can’t do everyone’s job. Instead of micromanaging, strong leaders use organizational leadership to coordinate, communicate, motivate and delegate among employees and team members. For comprehensive organizational effectiveness, each individual needs to be seen as a contributor, with the leader at the helm.
Most importantly, best-practices leadership involves keeping employees motivated throughout the process, adapting your scope or strategy as necessary, and developing an effective communication strategy.
Some people never make it to the other side because they’re more successful at being doers. This is a crucial point in determining if you’re going to move up the ranks.
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Corporate cheerleader Ron Carucci offers pointers on how to throw off
the illusion of individual achievement and be grateful for your team.
“In the current, dynamic business environment, it is easy to become
consumed with daily emergencies and managing complexity,” writes Robert
Rudzki, co-author of a new study on corporate leadership.
When author Kevin Eikenberry was researching his book, Remarkable Leadership,
he asked a group of hockey fans to name the greatest player who ever
lived. Wayne Gretzsky was named more than any other player.
If you don’t want to deal with someone who’s lazy, snide or otherwise
lacks the basic qualities of a respectable individual, ponder this
analogy:
As organizations outsource more critical business processes around the
world, leadership challenges increase. Some 200 business executives
highlighted the following challenges when aligning multiple locations
and cultures, according to Accenture:
The person who claims the spotlight or advances ideas most forcefully
is probably not the individual you want to assume a leadership position
tomorrow. He or she probably embodies these traits instead:
Shirley Bridges has two job titles: chief information officer (CIO) of
Delta Air Lines and president and chief executive of Delta Technology.
She describes herself as a “servant leader.”
Plato tells us why...
The DNA of Leadership tells us why...
