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How To Be a Great Boss
Simple truths for effective leadership
After being in leadership positions for 25 years in military, corporate, government, and volunteer settings, I’ve found one simple definition for good leadership to always be true:
Good Leadership is the actions you take that make people want to follow you.
It sounds simple because it is, and the word want is key. Want is a desire motivated by heart, not bank accounts or threats of punishment. Want is a purely inspired desire to walk in your direction because of who you are.
I’ve also found that it doesn’t matter what setting you lead in. Whether it’s combat, customer service, or coaching, leadership principles are universal.
So let’s get to it. Here is how you can be a great boss.
Have Focus to Enable Prioritization
Understand your mission, vision, or goal. Then you can prioritize your team’s actions to meet them.
When you don’t have a clear focus on why you do what you do, your priorities become haphazard — this leads to discord and frustration in your team and wasted effort by all.
Focus exponentially increases efficiency while decisiveness is the vehicle that drives it.
