We continue our ten
part series on Leadership Characteristics based on a Harvey McKay weekly blog.
The research for
these ten words came from a four-year series of executive seminars conducted by
Santa Clara University and the Tom Peters Group/Learning systems. This list first appeared in Management Review
Magazine). These thoughts are my own
creation.
Leadership Trait #3
Forward-Looking
When
we think about someone who is forward-looking as a leader these ideas come to
mind.
Pathfinder
Trail blazer
Entrepreneur
Visionary
The
phrase “Work on the business, not in the
business” first came to my attention while reading The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber.
The
essential idea here is that a leader needs to be a forward-thinking individual,
and the best way to accomplish that is to work on the business, not
in the business. Michael does an
excellent job of illustrating this and I encourage you to revisit his book.
When
one works in the business, it is difficult to see over the counter, or past the
stack of potato chips, or even past your family vacation.
Families
need someone working on the family also. How are we doing? Are we communicating? Are we doing good and wholesome
activities? Are we operating according
to the family norms we've established as important?
Leadership
is a forward-thinking sport. Effective
leaders think of the next year to ten years, not next month’s profit and loss
spreadsheet.
What
are you doing to be a visionary and predict the future of your enterprise?
Someone
needs to be the visionary. Dream up the
wings you need to fly to new vistas and then set your creative team loose to
build those wings once they've been visualized.
Remember
this:
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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