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LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #4: MAKE SOUND AND TIMELY DECISIONS

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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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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