Great Leaders Do These 8 Things:
/Question every assumption, belief, and reaction. They don’t adopt the status quo or the “best practice.” They know no such thing exists.
Adopt Quality, Improvement, and Innovation as key business strategies.
Understand that the Focus is NOT on benchmarking, lean six sigma, holding individuals accountable, maximizing, or the bottom line. (Leaders know why this is not the focus—do you?)
Search out the management fads that have invaded their space and that methodically zap their energy and productivity—and delete them!
Feel and see the complexity . . . and respond to REDUCE it!
Focus on the System to Optimize with a Compelling Purpose, Quality, and Serving Customers; the results will naturally follow
Prioritize; they know what’s important
Control the business (they are not controlling) by optimizing (not maximizing the whole system)
Originally written in February 2014
