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Watching Leaders

Much of leaders influence proves to be intangible and symbolic; their actions set the tone, communicate norms, shape values, and provide meaning.

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Culture Driver

How your leaders behave drives the kind of culture you end up with.

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#Leadership Default Setting

As a leader, your default setting should be aggressive-proactive rather than passive-reactive.  Instead of letting the situation dictate your decisions, you must dictate the situation.

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Prioritize & Execute

Determine the greatest priority for your team, then direct your team to attack that priority.  Once the wheels are in motion and the full resources of the team are engaged in that highest priority effort, then determine the next priority, focus the team's effort there, and then move on to the next priority.

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#Leadership

Good leaders don't make excuses.  Instead, they figure out a way to get it done and win.

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#Leadership Type

There are only two types of leaders: effective and ineffective.  Which type does your organizsation have? 

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The Secret

I'm going to let you in on a little secret, although it's not really a secret, it's just that most organizations don't really believe it.  Ready?  Leadership - at every level - is the most important factor in whether a team succeeds or fails.  Period.  End of story.

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#Leadership Standards

When it comes to standards, as a leader, it's not what you preach, it's what you tolerate.  If substandard performance is accepted and no one is held accountable - if there are no consequences - that poor performance becomes the  standard within the team/organization.  Leaders must enforce standards.

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#Leadership Tactic

End far fewer sentences with a period, and more with a question mark.  Litigators, journalists, and doctors are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training.  Few executives think of questions as a skill that can be honed and deployed. 

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