Three Concepts of Leadership
Through both my professional and personal experiences, I have had countless opportunities to observe incredible leaders doing what they do best... LEAD. From these opportunities, I have distilled these experiences into three core concepts being led from the front, resource management, and maintaining a big picture perspective. The embodiment of successful leadership traits culminate back to one of these three principals. I have strived to apply these ideas and concepts while building and leading teams, mentoring individuals, and expanding business capabilities which have proven highly successful.
Recently, I have come across a publication by Amazon in which they outline their principals of leadership. Reading through them, I found that these 14 principles laid out by Amazon map back very well to the three concepts of leadership I have forged from personal experience. Implementing these three concepts with the additional guidance of these 14 principles will help propel your teams to new heights through cultural improvements, resource management, and strategic initiative.
The high level overview
My 3 Concepts of a Highly Successful Leader
Lead from the front
A true leader is one who leads from the front and would never ask their employees to do something they themselves wouldn't do. They will continuously set an example of the highest standard on how something is to be done. This high standard enables a leader to be right a lot. This is further bolstered by the ability to listen first, understand what is being conveyed, and then act. Taking a “listen to understand” mentality gives a leader perspective.?
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A leader is able to maintain full situational awareness from all levels of an operation and take quick and decisive action that delivers results. Finally, a leader will stand by their decision and as it is what is best for the organization and not fold for the sake of social cohesion.
Principle Mapping: Ownership, Hire and Develop The Best, Insist on The Highest Standards, Are Right a Lot, Bias For Action, Earn Trust, Dive Deep, Deliver Results, Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit.
Understand and manage your resources
A leader is able to understand what they do and don't have and how these things can best be utilized. A leader protects their assets and continuously looks for ways to protect and optimize their resources through simplification, ingenuity, and automation.
Principle Mapping: Customer Obsession, Invent and Simplify, Frugality.
It’s about the long term not short term
A leader always looks at the big picture and understands that making a slow nickel rather than a quick dollar provides longevity to a business which in-turn provides longevity to the employees of the business. A leader is naturally curious and explores the possibilities and opportunities that present themselves. Finally a leader is able to assess its impact? of these possibilities and opportunities on the long term success of the business.
Principle Mapping: Learn and Be Curious, Think Big