Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

These labels and/or descriptors will typically just cause confusion and add little value to the discussion.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In fact, 82 percent of the Best Companies for Leadership use rewards or reprimands that are based on rigorous measurements of performance against goals, compared to only 58 percent of all other companies. Leadership development programs better enable employees to deliver on my company’s goals/strategies. 85 percent. 55 percent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Effective delegators spend time planning work assignments and organizing resources to achieve business goals in the most productive way possible. Effective delegation can have short- and long-term benefits for you, your staff, and your organization. Build a sense of shared responsibility for the unit’s overall goals.

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Delegation Guidelines Short-term Long-term 121

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MARCH 22, 2018

In short, we teach leaders to be proactive with change. Sometimes they have to come to terms with the need to let go, or relinquish, something. Communicate why the organization is changing, what the end goal looks and feels like, how the organization will get there, and who will do what to make it so.

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MAY 14, 2015

The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization. Good leadership is defined as proper training, rewarding, assisting, coaching and respecting those who “carry the load”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 27, 2011

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs). If you’re not ready for this, try a short-term expat assignment.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

The key lies in getting leaders to create more positively charged references where they have no choice but to interpret both the causes and consequences of those references in permanent, pervasive and personal terms. Diligence In my coaching work, I sometimes encounter an executive who is looking for the quickest, shortest way….the

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 16, 2008

Replace chronic underperformers after they’ve been given a fair chance to meet performance goals. Instead of job description we call it a job “scorecard” because first-year performance goals are spelled out. At least once per year rank order your most valuable to least valuable team members.

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APRIL 12, 2012

Leaders today need to focus less on traditional methods of strategy and more on preparing people for a very different kind of technical climb: Achieving and sustaining competitive advantage amidst short life cycles. Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro is a clear, visible goal. When every person in the company can recite “What is our goal?” (an

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Micromanagers focus explicitly on the how, which often results in short-term success at the expense of the long-term strategy, overall scalability, and employee satisfaction. They create a “return and report” culture where employees are sent off with an understanding of the overarching strategy and the goals of the assignment.

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APRIL 18, 2008

Circling the Drain: Medical term for a patient near death who refuses to give up the ghost. Interrupt-Driven: Used to describe someone who moves through the a workday responding to a series of interruptions rather than the work goals originally set. Chips and Salsa: Chips = hardware, salsa = software. Examples include the O.J.

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