PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

1. Live with Integrity

Lead by example! Integrity builds trust and confidence among follows that is necessary for high-performing organizations.

2. Develop a Winning Strategy

A successful leader has to be able to understand what the company does best and build on it.

3. Build a Great Management Team

Great leaders hire people whose skills and experiences compliment their own, but whose passion, attitudes and values are on the same level with theirs.

4. Inspire Employees

To be effective, leaders communicate consistently and listen carefully. In addition, they encourage risk-taking and even failure as a learning experience.

5. Create a flexible Organization

The best leaders get rid of practices and policies that stand in the way of flexibility and customer responsiveness.

6. Implement Relevant Systems

Compensation must be consistent with and reinforce the values and strategy of the organization.


Source: “Lessons from the Top,” Thomas Neff & James Citrin.
2007 Shaques Publishing Inc.