You can't have strategy without leadership, and you can't have leadership without strategy. In fact, no aspect of management, whether strategic, operational or tactical, line or staff, mission critical or supporting, can be implemented without active leadership by everyone involved, be they senior executives, functional managers, or line supervisors. However, it all starts at the top. This lesson has been driven home for me on numerous occasions as a military officer and as I've served my consulting clientele.
Here are some actions and principles you can start to apply immediately to strategize and plan, and to lead your organization or team through any level of change - strategic, operational, or tactical:
These are just some of the actions and principles you can implement immediately to make your leadership more effective and to implement your strategy, operations, and tactics. If you apply one or two of these principles, there will be a noticeable change in your leadership. If you apply them all, your leadership presence will increase several fold and will magnify your personal effectiveness and that of your organization or team.
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