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Leadership Principle #3: DEVELOP A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AMONG YOUR SUBORDINATES

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #3: DEVELOP A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY AMONG YOUR SUBORDINATES

When a leader shares with her followers the need to accept responsibility for their actions the leader is well on her way to creating GREAT leaders. A leader that not only creates a sense of responsibility among his subordinates but also holds them accountable to that responsibility is showing his followers they matter.

Leadership is a lonely task but when you are creating and developing a sense of responsibility among your subordinates, you are far from lonely. Creating your follower’s sense of responsibility is one of those times that Leaders and Followers work together to make something good happen. Good things happen when dialogue between a leader and his follower occurs. The leader’s intent (to instill a sense of responsibility) is conveyed to his subordinates and their interpretation is convey back to the leader.

Be a leader that not only welcomes her followers to accept responsibility for their actions but a leader that expects her followers to learn from their successes as well as their failures as part of accepting responsibility.

Thank you,
David Guerra, MBA

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Leadership Principle #2: BE TECHNICALLY AND TACTICALLY PROFICIENT

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #2: BE TECHNICALLY AND TACTICALLY PROFICIENT

Know your job. Know your job to the point that you can do it in your sleep. Then once you can do it in your sleep learn to do it an entirely different manner. Your proficiency with what you do is what will set you above and beyond others. As a leader, the pinnacle of leadership is not only being above and beyond your peers but using that technical and tactical proficiency to help others reach your level. See that proficiency is NOT something that should be horded.

Oh no, while popular belief will have you thinking that one leader is enough. Imagine a group, a company, an organization full of leaders that are the top of their game. Those leaders then do everything they can to create new leaders by sharing their skills and knowledge with their followers. Teaching others is how leaders become great leaders. Your followers deserve you at your greatest!

Thank you,
David Guerra, MBA

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Leadership Principle #1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement.


An authentic leader is always looking to improve their place in life. It is when the leader STOPS learning and improving that the honor of leading people comes to an end. Never stop moving forward. Never stop improving and you will always succeed and pass along that success to those that follow you.

Knowing yourself is one of those never-ending, lifelong tasks that a leader cannot slack off on nor can they view while wearing rose colored glasses. Objectivity is necessary in order for any leader (at any level) to see themselves for who they really are. Failing to be truthful to yourself is unacceptable.

The first time you fail yourself is the moment you have given up any chance of being leader. A true authentic leader. Why? When you cannot be honest with yourself, how can you possibly begin to know yourself, let alone try to seek any form of self-improvement?

Without the truth, the truth to yourself, you cannot begin.

Thanks,
David G. Guerra, M.B.A.

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