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Emphasize Leadership for Strategy Success
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While developing a great strategy for your business is admirable, providing the right leadership makes all the difference between success and failure. Far too often, much of the effort goes into creating and implementing an innovative strategy only to see it flounder from the lack of effective leadership. Here are some key behaviours that can be leveraged for success... |
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While developing a great strategy for your business is admirable, providing the right leadership makes all the difference between success and failure. Far too often, the majority of an organization’s effort goes into creating and implementing an innovative strategy only to see it flounder from the lack of effective leadership – particularly at senior levels.
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been working with a group of CEOs from allied companies wanting to better align their business strategies, standards of practice and resource utilization for the benefit of both members and shareholders. Conversations to date have leaned heavily towards the technical aspects with some reluctance to openly discuss the leadership behaviours needed to craft and implement a new integrated vision and strategic direction.
For many leaders, it’s far more comfortable and often less ‘messy’ to focus on the technical nuances of a particular strategy rather than engaging in meaningful dialogue on the behaviour changes required both individually and collectively to develop and execute a new way forward. Research and experience show, however, that leadership behaviour is.... (cont'd) |
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Success often strengthens the undesirable side of people’s personalities, perhaps because power lowers their motivation to positively manage their reputation. The more power and influence you have, the less interested you will likely be in pleasing other people and in keeping your dark side in check. For most of us, letting these difficult traits have free rein leads to dire consequences for our careers and personal lives.
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