Successful leaders don’t know all the answers. They are successful because they know what questions to ask their employees to enhance progress and to help them to achieve their high goals. [...]
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Successful leaders focus on solutions and not on problems. Now, you probably say that this is obvious. But it is not! A lot of people still focus on problems and how to overcome them. [...] Successful leaders know that they have to value their employees, so that a strong commitment can emerge. These two tools show you how to value your employees. [...] Secret Number 4: They know the things that already work well! Successful leaders know a lot – but most of all, they know what already works and are aware of the fact, that they can build on that to reach their goals. [...] Secret Number 5: They focus on usefulness! Successful leaders create an atmosphere of progress by making sure that they and their teams work on useful things in the most useful manner. [...] Secret Number 6: They go beyond defining goals! Great leaders not only define what their goals are, but they also want to know what will be different once they reach them. Because they know that this is the key for their own motivation and the commitment of their employees. [...] There are various theories and great evidence that show that people learn their behavior from role models. Although most of the leaders I have met so far are aware of this fact, they behave completely different in everyday life. [...] In a non-linear, globalized, non-predictable world, like we encounter today, we can’t control as much as we want to, and it’s hard to maintain the status quo. Therefore more leadership is needed that leads to more self-responsible and better employees that can deal with change and are constantly looking for better solutions and progress. We are used to focus on differences and argue about those. This behavior is leading to many conflicts amongst people and even wars amongst countries, but never to progress and success. If you really want to succeed it makes much more sense to focus on similarities instead of differences, because usually much more is similar than different. [...] With the leader as host or host leadership, Mark McKergow offers us a very interesting new leadership perspective with an ancient yet new metaphor. [...] |
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