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Conquering The Common Fears of Leadership
Making Decisions
Decision-making is critical for business leadership. The ability to learn how to make good decisions in highly chaotic environments can give you the tools necessary to take your business to the next level.
Be prepared, use the information at hand, and make the best possible decisions you can. Adjust quickly if you miss the mark.
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“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is gu..."
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook
Skills Needed In Digital Leaders
- Work together, complement each other, and function as a team.
- Able to operate on and enable environments that are more dynamic, team-centric, and connected.
- Lead and build teams and partner with the broader ecosystems, keep people connected and engaged, and drive a culture of innovation, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Lead a workforce that includes contractors, the contingent workforce, and crowd talent.
- Understand how different business functions, industries, and technologies come together to form solutions.
- Comfortable and competent with risk-taking.
Demographics And Leadership Destiny
Millennials expect to be developed via opportunities, mentoring, and stretch assignments. However that is hard to come by in top-heavy companies.
Most millennials think their roles provide little development while most companies report they have excellent or adequate programs for Millennials.
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“Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive..."
Jack Welch
Vision
Great leaders have a clear, exciting idea of where they are going. They are excellent at strategic planning.
While a manager gets the job done, great leaders tap into the emotions of their employees.
Winston Churchill
“Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.”
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Communication
A critical task of a leader is communication. It is better to err on the side of communicating more frequently than under-communicating because leaders thought everyone knows what is expected of th...
Positive and Optimistic
The voice of leadership, while not ignoring genuine threats, should sound positive and optimistic, believing you will succeed despite obstacles.
A cause is only lost when you believe it is, and even then, only when you give up. The task of leadership is to persevere until you achieve your goal, regardless of the difficulty. Communicate your optimism and transmit those beliefs to your team.
Unafraid
Fear causes people to freeze, take flight, or fight. It's not that leaders aren't afraid, but that they fear the greater danger of doing nothing.
Leaders speak to the real danger, that of leaving the threat unaddressed and unopposed. Courage means taking action and confronting the challenge directly, giving others the courage to do the same.