I an busy reading the book “Just Enough Anxiety” by Robert Rosen, which proposes the following five tasks of leadership.
- Leadership: Successful leaders willingly travel into the unknown.
- Strategy: Successful leaders set an evolving course through ambiguity, complexity, and change.
- Engagement: Successful leaders inspire and challenge people to perform beyond their own expectations.
- Growth: Successful leaders learn and relearn in real time by stretching themselves and the business.
- Innovation: Successful leaders imagine possibilities, discover opportunities, and release creative energies inside their organization.
I thought this a great summary of the five key tasks of leadership. How effectively are you performing these five leadership tasks?
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George, I appreciate this list. Seems like it describes perfectly the leadership challenge I’m in right now – where everything is going okay, but that shouldn’t be enough. Leadership is pressing on to the next level.
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Mark
Creating personal relationships and keeping in touch with the field are also key points in a succucful leadership.
The first task (“leadership”) seems pretty vague – I’d vote for Vision to replace it. Without a clear vision, there’s really no true north for the team or organization.
I think this list really simplifies the characteristics that a successful business leader must have. My favorite here is innovation. We all know a leader needs to be creative, but how they act on their creativity can make all the difference in a work place. Marketing, employee satisfaction, and profit are all webbed into this innovation. Companies shouldn’t try to adopt ideas to compete with competitors, rather they should birth their own ideas to make competition. So much can be said about these five tasks but nice work.