Leadership doesn’t have to be this hard. Simplify it with the seven essential elements that create a “want to” instead of a “have to” culture.
In the same way that the conductor enables talented musicians to make beautiful, majestic music, leadership is what empowers organizations to achieve greatness.
With the wisdom from over 5 decades of leadership coaching and mentoring, Russell E. Justice reveals the time-tested elements for leading any organization to Accelerated Continuous Improvement. This Is What Leaders Do gives you the components and examples to achieve enterprise excellence.
With clear guidelines and succinct detail, you’ll learn how to pinpoint your organization’s unifying theme, successfully launch—and maintain—your team’s engagement, develop and execute the right action plans, celebrate successes, and reinforce the behaviors that led to those successes.
The game-changing, practical insights here set you on track for rapid, lasting success.
People tend to make leadership far too hard; it’s just not that hard. For that reason, this book has two purposes: (1) to give you a template that, when utilized, will result in Accelerated Continuous Improvement and (2) to simplify your life by giving you the vital few components of effective leadership and the examples to help you move forward.
The concepts and examples you read about and study here will enable you to accomplish the following:
· Focus your organization on the vital few issues for your business.
· Align and mobilize the efforts of your workforce toward the focus.
· Go beyond just projects to enterprise-wide improvement.
· Tap into everyone’s discretionary effort (the difference in “have to” and “want to”).
· Get unstuck when tackling a problem and at a dead end.
· Trigger innovative and creative ideas that directly apply to your organization.
· Experience quality of management.
The purpose of this book is to share with you a methodology, a philosophy, an approach to “change the slope of the line”—to accelerate improvement.
"The principles gained from my close association with Russell Justice influenced every phase of my life including my family, marriage, faith, friendships and the parenting of my children. All phases of life are processes and can be improved using the principles included in this book."
--Earnest W. (Earnie) Deavenport, (Ret) Chairman and CEO of Eastman Chemical Company
"Stories are a powerful learning tool because they are simple and memorable. Rusell is a master storyteller with the case studies and examples in this book. We learn best by doing, as Russell teaches us. Read this book and then start doing Russell’s seven steps. You’ll be glad you did."
--Michael McCarthy, author of Sustain Your Gains
"This Is What Leaders Do contains a truckload of successful OUTCOMES you can recreate in your organization. The stories in this book will stick with you like molasses on a biscuit with its clear steps that team members will remember and use again and again. Bonus: the author's engaging storytelling style makes the learnings long-lasting and fun.
Be the first to read it, use the process, get your own outcomes, and brag to your colleagues and friends."
--Janis Allen, author of From Boo-Hiss to Bravo and Manage Your Time Like It’s All You’ve Got!
