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Leadership Tips by Laurie Resnick

Most organizations:

• Don't know goals
• Don't buy into goals
• Are distracted by less important stuff
• Don't understand what their role is in achieving goals
• Don't measure results

Great organizations:

• Focus on the wildly important
• Create a compelling scoreboard
• Translate lofty goals into specific actions
• Hold each other accountable
• Goals need to include: Product People, Financial and Marketing

Leaders have:

• Vision and the ability to think big
• High energy and the ability to energize others
• The ability to stay focused and execute a plan

Leaders are:

• Decisive
• Passionate
• Flexible
• Team players

Leaders

• Never give up
• Keep the momentum
• Pick the best team
• Reward the winners
• Let people know where they stand
• Function well in a crisis
• Build consensus
• Communicate, high feedback/high morale
• Tell the truth
• Are authentic

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