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Be accountable.
Keep everything in perspective while simultaneously concentrating fully on the task at hand.
Understand your environment, assess for changes, and consider higher order consequences of the decisions at hand
Ethically sound values engender respect from those you lead and give your team strength and resilience.
Be firm.
values, standards, and principles.
you must be quick to adjust to new challenges that defy the old solutions.
When your solution no longer fits the environment, it becomes a problem...adjust
I had significant belief—self-confidence—in what I was doing.
belief derives from expertise.
Belief derives from Experience
you must know where you’re going and how you intend to get there,
You must be able to inspire and motivate
You must care abo...
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you must never second-guess yourself on decisions you make with integrity, intelligence, ...
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it is easy to become so completely overwhelmed by ongoing setbacks that you start focusing on issues completely extraneous to improvement
I watched for it in my own behavior—as you should in yours—knowing that it would significantly reduce my ability to be effective, that it was dodge, a way of diverting my attention.
The wrong small stuff becomes a distraction from solving the real problem...understandably so when the real problem is challenging. Your job as a leader though to solve that problem. Don't get distracted.
trivialities
typical of what a desperate leader can grab onto and control when everything seems out of control.
Just because it's in your control, doesn't mean it's worth your time to control...avoid wasting resources on the trivial
when you find yourself with a host of problems that seemingly defy solution and start dwelling on the least relevant or even irrelevant aspects of your job—constantly
tell yourself this:
“There’ll be plenty of time for pencils, parties, and socializing when I lose my job, because that’s what’s going to happen if I continue to avoid the hard and harsh realities of doing my job.”
ten additional nails you can pound into your professional coffin:
These may be negative corrolaries to 12 leadership tips given before
paralyzing patience.
Leaders make decisions, and inaction can often lead to no action, meaning the problem never gets solved
Act in a tedious, overly cautious manner.
Why is this bad? Possibly, leads to uncertainty, leads to indecisiveness, demoralizing for those around you...once you have enough information and understand well the circumstances and outcomes, get moving!
Trust others to carry out your fundamental duties.
Don't delegate away your responsibilities!
The trademark of a well-led organization in sports or business is that it’s virtually self-sustaining and self-directed—almost autonomous.
See Jim Collins good to great and built to last, specifically genius with 1000 helpers and getting the right people on the bus
roles have been established and people are able to function at a high level because they understand and believe in what you’ve taught them,
Fundamentally sound actions and attitudes are the keys.
an organization is crippled if it needs to ask the leader what to do every time a question arises.
you hope your ideas and way of doing things become so strongly entrenched that the organization performs as effectively without you as with you.
This is a reliable indication of an effective leader,
one who creates a self-sustaining organization able to operate at the highest levels even when he or she leaves.
Leaders who regularly employ this tactic of demonizing opponents destroy its effectiveness because it’s soon recognized as a ploy to stir up emotions. As soon as that happens, it’s ignored.
Instead of demonizing the enemy or rival as motivation, leaders motivate from inside the organization, demanding and driving for excellence and integrity in your job by building the a cultural standard of performance
namely, don’t assume because of odd circumstances that everything will somehow sort itself out.
Like during a pandemic?
Rather, play for keeps all the time.
I did my best to figure out those rules and assumptions to the advantage of our organization.
You must be able to make and carry out harsh and, at times, ruthless decisions in a manner that is fast, firm, and fair.
Tricky subject...context matters a lot here...crossing a line on a decision that's been made by majority of organization requires discipline...when alternatives are being debated though, transparency and open minded thinking, listening matters...Be a leader-philosopher, not a tyrant
There are consequences—at times harsh consequences—for ignoring the spoken and unspoken code of conduct that was part of the standards I had established.
The culture of the organization must be maintained...letting one talented egocentric team member (a taker) disrupt this is dangerous.
Leadership is expertise.
People will follow a person who organizes and manages others, because he or she has credibility and expertise—a knowledge of the profession—and demonstrates an understanding of human nature.
On the field, the 49ers depended totally on the regimen and skills they had learned.
My teaching and the great teaching of the 49er assistant coaches was the decisive factor in competition,
The true inspiration, expertise, and ability to execute that employees take with them into their work is most often the result of their inner voice talking,
Leaders teach and motivate their team's inner voices...their personal belief in the standard of performance, vision of the organization, and their contribution to its success
I believe all have these four messages in common:
inner voices of great leaders
We can win if we work smart enough and hard enough.
We can win if we put the good of the group ahead of our own ...
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We can win if we improve. And there is always room...
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I know what is required for us to win. I will show you what it is.
Knowing where youre going and how to get there...leader's responsibility number 1
a leader of the highest caliber who led with one fundamental and powerful leadership technique: his own example.
Joe Montana’s leadership was grounded in this key characteristic:
he never played favorites
you were treated as an equal.
