đŞ what makes an effective leader?
Perspectives on judgement, clarity, communication, presence, emotional intelligence, and the human side of leadership.
đŞ what makes an effective leader?
leadership is the single greatest factor in any teamâs performance. Whether a team succeeds or fails is all up to the leader. The leaderâs attitude sets the tone for the entire team. The leader drives performanceâor doesnât. And this applies not just to the most senior leader of an overall team, but to the junior leaders of teams within the team.
Jocko Willink , Leif Babin ⢠Extreme Ownership
I define a leader as anyone who takes responsibility for finding the potential in people and processes, and who has the courage to develop that potential.
Brene Brown ⢠Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Motivation is an essential part of life and success, and a leader may justly ask for âone last push,â but the leaderâs job is more than that. The job of the leader is also to create the conditions that will make that push effective, to have a strategy worthy of the effort called upon.
Richard Rumelt ⢠Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders donât tell people, they donât direct people, and they donât order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: âWhat would âgreatâ look like?â Here are a few
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With Win/Win accountability, people evaluate themselves. The traditional evaluation games people play are awkward and emotionally exhausting. In Win/Win, people evaluate themselves, using the criteria that they themselves helped to create up front. And if you set it up correctly, people can do that. With a Win/Win delegation agreement, even a
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Great managers look inward. They look inside the company, into each individual, into the differences in style, goals, needs, and motivation of each person.
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman, ⢠First, Break All the Rules
There are only two types of leaders: effective and ineffective. Effective leaders that lead successful, high-performance teams exhibit Extreme Ownership. Anything else is simply ineffective. Anything else is bad leadership.
Jocko Willink , Leif Babin ⢠Extreme Ownership
leaders must âModel curiosity and ask lots of questionsâ.
Nir Eyal ⢠Indistractable
Leading from good to great does not mean coming up with the answers and then motivating everyone to follow your messianic vision. It means having the humility to grasp the fact that you do not yet understand enough to have the answers and then to ask the questions that will lead to the best possible insights.