‘How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams’

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Great leaders build great teams. Great teams are great because their leaders are great. They are treated with love and respect. They have a vision. They know what they are doing. And they create a space for their people to grow.

Great leaders are willing to challenge their own beliefs. They are willing to prove to themselves, through earnest experimentation and adequate repetition, whether something works or not.’

‘Great leaders align their company vision with their employees’ personal vision.’

Great leaders define the tasks for each role first, and then find the best person to fill that role.’

Great leaders identify the few qualities and qualifications that will have the greatest impact in a role and find someone with those attributes.’

Great leaders look beyond what a candidate has done in the past and ask, ‘What can the person do in the future?’

‘Great leaders ask their team to express and document their dreams, however simple, and then guides them in achieving it.’

Great leaders keep their bench full so they can streamline the recruiting process and fill roles faster.’

‘Great leaders confirm that candidates have the skills they need through demonstrations and testing.’

Great leaders know there must be an expected return on their investment, since it is the only way the business can ensure it earns more than it spends.’

Great leaders consider their employees’ safety as times and technology evolve, and when making any new business decision.’

Great leaders give their team control over what to do and how to do it and hold them to their standard.’

Great leaders intentionally create bonding experiences that come from quality and quantity time. The goal is simple: build collective stories among the team.’

Source

Mike Michalowicz (2024). All In: How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams

Turning Data Into Profitable Insight

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To collect the right data, you must ask the right questions. When you ask the right questions, you will get the right data.

‘To best leverage analytics, first assess your organization’s analytics maturity.’

Effective influencing can help accelerate the execution of any initiative.’

Prioritization is a necessary process, which, when done democratically can foster innovation while keeping the organization focused on the big rocks.’

‘Data doesn’t speak; it responds.’

Coordination across groups can save on redundancy and create a harmonious organization in which teams build on each other’s success.’

‘If you are a business leader, define your measures of success, uncover drivers of those success metrics, and orient your entire team toward them.’

‘Don’t expect data to reveal insights; instead, ask the right questions to uncover the insights.’

‘If you are a business manager, ask the right questions of data and learn to do simple analytics.’

‘If you are an analytics leader, lay out an analytics agenda aligned to the success metrics and make data access easy across the organization.’

Cultivate and motivate your team; inspired team members will go beyond their mandate to deliver.’

‘Think big– what metric can you move with the resources you currently have?’

Make decisions based on data; you will consistently drive results if you do.’

Source

Piyanka Jain and Puneet Sharma (2015). Behind Every Good Decision: How Anyone Can Use Business Analytics to Turn Data into Profitable Insight