LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #4: MAKE SOUND AND TIMELY DECISIONS
Your followers look to you to make sound and timely decisions. Decisions based on your knowledge, wisdom and experience not only as a leader but also as a follower. No one can make sound and timely decisions without the experience to back it up. That is where having a varied experience, while climbing up the ranks, pays off.
Paying your dues is critical to making you a very wise and sought after leader.
When someone is in a highly visible and impactful position without the benefit of having worked his or her way up the ladder their inability to deliver decisions based on what they lack will come shining through. This inability will make it all the more difficult for the subordinates/followers the pseudo-leader to act on those decisions of the leader which are based on emotion and not anything else.
A leader that has not paid his/her dues is not a leader. There is no faking this. As every leader will have to make decisions in a sound and timely manner because his/her followers will be expecting that from their leaders. It is the duty of every leader to deliver on that expectation. If a leader cannot deliver on anything else, making those decisions is critical.
In most situations, the decisions the leader makes that affects the day-to-day operations of the organization. While in other extreme situations a leader’s decisions directly impacts the lives of the individuals of which the leader is responsible.
Whether in times of trouble or peace, a leader must deliver those all too important decisions. A leader cannot hesitate when it comes to making those decisions. Do what it takes to make decisions that are sounds, timely, and made to the best of your ability.
Those that follow you expect nothing less.
Thanks,
David G. Guerra, M.B.A.
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