How Good Leaders Make Good Decisions

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‘Being a good leader boils down to one thing: responding to challenges by making good decisions.’

‘You’re always better off rejecting a role than accepting it for the wrong reasons.’

‘You are always negotiating and everything is negotiable.’

‘Leaders lead by building tool kits that they have developed throughout their personal and professional lives.’

‘Leaders need to find the right balance of creating environments for their employees to really enjoy coming to work while at the same time ensuring it is safe and inclusive space for everyone.’

Lead the company according to your vision. While it is important to respect the company’s traditions, you will likely have to break a few of them.’

Face the finances. If you’re leading a company with unsustainable losses, you won’t be a leader for long.’

‘Strategy begins with your specific approach to company culture and your leadership philosophy.’

Your growth strategy should concentrate on the few, strongest opportunities. Companies fail more often by lacking focus than by focusing on the wrong opportunity.’

Set short-term goals to achieve your long-term strategy. Small wins boost employee morale and permit for iterative planning.’

Source:

David Siegel (2022). Decide & Conquer: 44 Decisions That Will Make or Break All Leaders

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- Why Do Great Leaders Lead With Love?

Leading people is a lot like creating work family. There are joy and tears, fun and fears.’

Love matters. It matters because with all that we have learned with respect to phenomenal leadership approaches, models, and philosophies, we still fail.’

When we fail to recognize the human need and capacity to love, we fail as leaders.’

Love is the crucial component in our lives, and our very survival depends upon its presence.’

Leaders who love create environments of compassion and caring.’

When people in the workplace are bonded by love, they forged solid bonds with one another that keep them together.’

Love enhances the feeling of ‘us’ along with a sense of purpose.’

When love is present, when care for one another rules, and when there’s an abundance of empathy, organizations take on the very human qualities toward which we should all strive.’

Love knows no titles. And hanging our importance or stature on the title in front of our name serve no purpose other than to inflate our ego.’

‘We depend on one another.’

We need one another.’

Source:

Zina Sutch and Patrick Malone (2021). Leading with Love and Laughter: Letting Go and Getting Real at work