Tag: Leadership Change

William A. Cohen On Leading Your Company To Victory

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Leadership, Management, Workplace Learning

‘Roadblocks are a fact of life for strategists. Expect the unexpected. Humans are often unpredictable, so the human factor must be considered. Weather can be an influencing factor. Economies can take unanticipated turns. A planned, alternative approach allows the strategist the flexibility of continuing toward the goal without a major delay.’

‘A point that has significant potential for the future. If you can identify this kind of strategic position, and get there before the competition, you can realize great success down the road.’

‘You cannot consistently win unless you mass and concentrate your resources.’

‘Maintain the initiative by looking for hidden opportunities, and new solutions. Don’t just rest on your laurels.’

‘Act now! You cannot afford to wait for conditions to be perfect in order to implement your strategy.’

‘After you’ve gained the advantage, keep the pressure on. That way, your competition will always be playing catch-up.’

‘Obstacles will inevitably appear along the way. Expect them and deal with them, while never losing sight of your objective.’

‘Once you are committed to a fully defined objective, be ready to adjust your strategy as necessary, but not your objective.’

‘With the right strategy, we can overcome adversaries with much greater resources.’

‘Things rarely go exactly as planned, so you need to have alternative not only ready to use, but actually in use. When unexpected obstacles block one approach, an alternative approach is already at work.’

‘When should you take a specific action?

Source:

William A. Cohen, PhD., (2024). The Art of the Strategist: 10 Essential Principles for Leading your Company to Victory

How Authentic Leaders Lead

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

We need great leaders. We need them because they know how to lead people. Above all, they know how to lead themselves.

According to Gareth Chick, ‘A leader takes an community outside its collective comfort zone, and makes the journey exciting, not frightening.’

Real leaders ask real, tough questions. They ‘… ask themselves one overriding question when posed a problem by another person- ‘What does this person need from me right here, right now?’ And they make things happpen. They are authentic. When they say something, they don’t play with what they say they will do.

And they are not afraid to say, I don’t know what you are talking about.’ They are not afraid to admit what they don’t know.

Because they know that when you admit what you do not know, you are willing to learn.

They ‘subordinate themselves to the cause and to the responsibility they’ve accepted– not in a way that excludes or overrides family, friends or external interests, but in a way that overrides their ego and immediate self-interest.’

‘Authentic leaders see possibilities that others do not see, or do not want to see, and have a knowing and a belief that is seemingly unshakeable.’

‘Authentic leaders ask people to things and achieve things that they do not know how to do themselves; that may even seem impossible or ‘beyond reason.’

‘Authentic leaders constantly hector people with the purpose and the vision and are overt and passionate living examples of the values.’

‘Authentic leaders touch people emotionally, sharing intimate moments of joy and elation as they inspire others to go beyond their wildest dreams of performance.’

‘Authentic leaders put themselves forward as the public face and voice of the mission and the message, and allow themselves to be the embodiment, at times the icon if appropriate, of the cause.’

They are not leading to make themselves bigger than others. They are leading to make the world a better place.

If you want to lead, you must be in it for others, not for yourself.

As always, you are more, not less!

Source:

Gareth Chick (2019). And The Leader Is … : Transforming Cultures with CEQ