Four
Tips to Help Leaders Keep Climbing
If you are a leader and you want to keep getting better, allow me to suggest these four tips to consider. Leaders keep climbing or they fall
back and so does the enterprise.
So how do leaders keep climbing?
Leaders
Give Up.
Every good leader has had to give
up something in order to continue being the leader. There will always be pet projects and pet
tasks that every leader loves to do, but if they want to continue leading, they
realize the need to give up those pet areas and let others do that work for
them. And that segues nicely into point
#2.
Leaders
Work on the Business.
Once a leader begins to see the
need to give up some things, they transition from working in the business to working on the business. When one works on the business, he or she
becomes available to see the bigger picture: the five-year, ten-year and twenty-year plan
with more clarity.
When one changes their
perspective, they see with the eyes of a leader.
Leaders
are Readers.
Either you read or you dwindle. There are some insightful magazines along with an immense wealth of books available
to us today. We must read. We must schedule time every day for reading. That is a do-or-die non-negotiable.
There are a half-dozen book
summary programs to which one can subscribe in order to keep abreast of the wealth of reading material being produced. A well-read leader becomes someone worth following.
Read and turn your
automobile into a “rolling university” and watch your productivity and business
acumen increase.
Leaders Associate with other Leaders.
There is a money principle that
says this: “If you are a millionaire and want to be a billionaire, then you need
to associate with a few billionaires.”
Iron sharpens iron. We have to brush up against players who are
better than we are in order to develop a better skill set and a better
game. Run with the elite to become elite.
Something to think about.
P
Michael Biggs
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