To be a leader one MUST:
Be Risk Taker
- Take the initiative
- Be decisive and move quickly when appropriate
- Accept responsibility
- Have no consuming fear of failure
- Hear and accept bad news, add it to experience, and move on
- Speak up and give opinions - without creating resentment
- Be quick to accept blame
- Reject, when appropriate, the logical and decide by instinct and heart
Have a Proven Track Record
- Do the right things to achieve superior profitability
- Demand outstanding performance over time. Hold yourself and your people accountable
- Regularly assess results and make necessary course corrections
- Concentrate on high impact opportunities
- Believe that preformance over time outweighs charisma
- Have a bias for action and a sense of urgency
- Be orientated at all times towards achievement
To be a leader one MUST:
Develop and Communicate a Rallying Vision
- Make it simple, clear, understandable
- Inspire others by selling one's ideas
- Be driven by customer needs
- Project self confidence
- Show commitment
- Focus on the long term
- Develop a 'road map' for achievement
Be a Strategic Thinker
- Understand customer expectations
- Utilise experience and intelligence to make good judgements
- Anticipate the future and spot 'paradigm shifts'
- Work comfortably at the conceptual level
- Balance short and long term business goals
- Understand corporate and unit strategies and goals
- Be willing to make trade offs
- Know your competition's strategies, strengths and weaknesses
- Capture reliable information from a variety of sources
