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90 Ways to Quickly Improve Your Business Leadership

Lead from Within

Create a personal mission statement. As a leader is it important to have a personal sense of mission crafted into something you can reflect on daily and measure your performance against. Be an active listener. When you listen, you learn. Leaders need the ability to really listen in order to understand.

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Three Common Mistakes Leaders Should Avoid

Eric Jacobson

Those are: Thinking That a Mission is Developed by a Single Leader -- Spiro explains that in order to have buy-in from across the organization, the creation of a mission requires negotiation and genuine input from across the organization. And that means a leader needs to be a good, active listener.

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Common Mistakes Leaders Should Avoid

Eric Jacobson

Those are: Thinking That a Mission is Developed by a Single Leader -- Spiro explains that in order to have buy-in from across the organization, the creation of a mission requires negotiation and genuine input from across the organization. And that means a leader needs to be a good, active listener.