Some time ago I had the opportunity of personal communication with one of the most eminent advisers to the CEO RAM Charan, among whose clients was the CEO of the companies GE, DuPont, Novartis, 3M, Verizon. During his 40 years of practice, he has seen a lot of SEO and reduced their opinion about the formation of outstanding leaders here's the point: to become great leader, it takes years of practice in making difficult decisions and taking personal responsibility for results and discipline tasks with increasing difficulty and regular work with mentors.
a Similar view is shared by well-known consultant and author of the bestseller "good to great" by Jim Collins. He believes that a successful CEO is a decisive, modest and strong-willed person.
the opinions of various thinkers in the field of business and management and the results of basic research in this area (for example, the CEO of Genome Project, which included evaluation of 17 thousand Top managers) converge in one an effective and effective leader is his ability and in a timely manner to make responsible decisions. This skill is like no other allows effective SEO to move their company forward into the "fog" of uncertainty of the future.
whether it is Possible to form the skill of decision making? In my opinion, you can, like any other skill. Below I will talk about how to do it.
WHAT
it All starts with the question "what?". With this short words start any transition from readiness to lead a healthy lifestyle, establish your financial well-being or to build a happy relationship between couples with the atmosphere of love and care to the desire to be an outstanding business leader and successful CEO.
After the question "what?" formed consciousness of desire or understanding of the problem. What you need to do to five years to lead a public company? You require to a company that is under your control, out of the category of mediocre and began to show outstanding results, ahead of market? That requires that the boards of Directors of public companies had a desire to elect you as Chairman of the Board of Directors?
Ask yourself the following questions:
What bothers me in my current situation?
That my work will help us to feel proud of me, my team, our customers and our shareholders within the next 24 months?
What plans will allow me to feel that I am closer to its long-term goals for the next 6 months?
HOW
Next is an important tactical question "how?". It is like a bridge that connects dreams and goals with achievements. For skill development decision-making is to analyze your situation from the past when decisions came easily and when, on the contrary, you avoided decisions because they were afraid of responsibility, and unknown factors were too many. Some of those decisions that you avoided in the past, you could take now? Who of famous people makes you respect their ability to make decisions? If there are such people, why not invite them to lunch or call them and discuss what they did to develop this skill. All professionals were once Amateurs. Watch live or through books after prominent people who have achieved extraordinary success in the ability to make decisions.
WHEN
the Final question — "when?". It is not only important to determine when you will begin to develop your skill of decision-making and to what period you reach the target, but also to determine intermediate milestones which you will measure the success of your progress on the formation of this ability.
This is your "stopwatch". It will rid you of irresponsibility, of illusions and fantasies. On each of your "what" should be "when". Without "when" your "what" is just a dream.
if you Really want to join the ranks of outstanding CEO? What are you willing to achieve this goal? People are often attracted to the "tip of the iceberg" of someone else's success in the form of recognition, money, lifestyle. But as you know, the tip is only 10% of the iceberg. And by "water" in the biography of an outstanding leader are "sweat, blood and tears." A leader is a lot of work on yourself. The leader is their own choice, not the choice of their own positions.
prominent SEO is a set of principles which guided his life. The ability to make decisions is one of them. Include in your Arsenal of three questions "what?" "how?" and "when?" and make them helpers of your success on the path to outstanding results. If you do this is important, you must succeed.
About the author. Yaroslav Glazunov — managing partner, Russian office of the company Spencer Stuart, the author of the book "Anti-Titanic. A guide for CEO. How to win where others are drowning", the founder of the program for the development of highly effective Directors General SEO Academy.
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