Intuit Small Business Blog published How to Improve Your Business Writing by Lee Polevoi. The advice given breaks down to the following points:
Forbes published It’s Not About You. (The Best Leaders Focus On Others.) by Victor Lipman.
“One of the most fundamental lessons of leadership is that if you’re a leader, it’s not about you. It’s about the people following you. The best leaders devote almost all of their energy to inspiring and enabling others. Taking care of them is a big part of this.”
You’re the Boss published Are You Involved in Every Decision at Your Company? by Josh Patrick. The article talks about the importance of creating an organization that can run without you so you can focus on what you need to.
One of the best ways I know to create value in a business is for the owner to become operationally irrelevant. That doesn’t mean leaving the business. It means changing your relationship to your business. Instead of being involved in every decision, you build a team and find a way to trust your senior employees to take care of their individual areas of responsibility.
Forbes published The Six Secrets of Self-Control by Travis Bradberry. This article talks about how to set yourself up to improve your self control.
The Intuit Small Business Blog published 4 Tips for Making Better Decisions by Rachel Hartman. The 4 tips given are:
Forbes published You Don’t Have To Be Loud to Lead by Erika Andersen.
So, as an introvert, how can you let people know that you have leadership capabilities and not get overshadowed by your louder, more gregarious colleagues?
Make Your Point, Build Individual Relationships, and Lean Into Your Strengths are the 3 pieces of advice given in the article.
Fortune published 7 Deadly Sins of Business Growth by Jeff DeGraff, talking about the mistakes business make that prevent growth.
The sole purpose of a business is to grow. This can take on many dimensions — profits, revenues, market share, brand or community influence, just to name a few. The road to growth is very simple. Innovation is required to drive growth. You make something better or new (products, services, solutions, etc.) and you sell to someone better or new (markets, segments, channels, etc.). Basically, that’s it; the rest is just fine print.
Forbes published The Top 5 Reasons Your Decisions Fail You.
The decisions that fail us, that take us away from who we are and where we want to go, and cause serious unhappiness and regret, have the following five traits in common. These decisions:
- Don’t support your intrinsic values
- Are communicated poorly or without proper reflection
- Come from a place of weakness and disempowerment
- Haven’t been properly vetted – they don’t factor in well enough the potential impact and outcomes
- Are focused on the wrong problem
Ben Horowitz published One on One., discussing the benefits and method to meeting with your employees individually.
If you are an employee, how do you get feedback from your manager on an exciting, but only 20% formed idea that you’re not sure is relevant without sounding like a fool? How do you point out that a colleague that you do not know how to work with is blocking your progress without throwing her under the bus? How do you get help when you love your job, but your personal life is melting down? Through a status report? On email? Yammer? Asana? Really? For these and other important areas of discussions, one-on-ones can be essential.
Forbes published 5 Powerful Things Happen When A Leader Is Transparent.
Each of the preceding points is interdependent and builds upon one another. This naturally takes us to point #5: higher-levels of performance. The formula is simple:
Efficient problem solving + the ability to build teams easier + the development of authentic relationships + trust = higher levels of performance.