Great Leadership By Dan

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Playbook for a New Leader’s First 90 Days on the Job

Great Leadership By Dan

Besides periodic questions aimed at deepening your understanding of the organization, business, people, and processes, most of your time should be spent listening. 3) What are your professional goals? Give yourself 60-90 days to determine if you have the right mix of talent to achieve the goals and objectives.

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What Makes a High-Performance Leader?

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High-performance leaders operate with a growth mindset and are great communicators. A growth mindset means they operate with: 1. The reason they do this is high-performance leaders understand that their number one goal is to create more high-performance leaders so they can move up to their next position and create more value.

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The Top 5 Mistakes Leaders Make

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How much time are you spending on activities that lead to your goals versus those that are urgent and unexpected? Create a process that works for you in which you can smoothly move from the urgent and then back to the important. In this age of information overload, employees have a lot to file away and process. And it is a trap.

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5 Steps to Build a Disruption Proof Business Model

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Step 1: Set up for Success The most resilient businesses have a forever promise they make to their customers—it’s like a mission, but completely focused on the customer’s goals and challenges. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people.

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Change Your Paradigm

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My goal is to gain a fresh perspective on the environment. First, I list out all the significant assumptions I am making that underpin how businesses operate. Albert Einstein said it best, “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. In general, people don’t like to change.

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Turning a Vision into Reality

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What does it take, what is the process, to get from contemplation to completion? Kennedy proclaimed, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”1 Football has the aptly named goal line. Golf counts strokes.

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What’s the Secret to Strong Leadership?

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Great leaders operate using similar principles to guide their actions. Great leaders know that the goal of act of communication isn’t communicating, it’s to create shared understanding. They accept obstacles as part and parcel of the process. On the surface, each team and company’s situation and issues were unique.