Summary: The author asserts that most leaders get the wrong results or the right results in the wrong ways. He offers the SAMMER Test to help you align the results you need to achieve with the results that you actually do achieve.
The author advocates that you use a concept developed more than 700 years ago by to boost the effectiveness of your leadership.
The best way for leaders to get great results is to lead in such a way that the people say, “We did it ourselves.”
Most leaders communicate through speeches and presentations. But there is a much more effective means of communication: that’s The Leadership Talk.
Human resources, despite the function’s complex activities, should have a fundamentally simple mission, yet it is a mission that is being neglected by many HR professionals.
Here’s a process that’s been working for leaders of all ranks and functions for more than two decades to help you achieve great results by developing great human relationships.
Leadership can be a very challenging task. As leaders we don’t always get to choose who is on our team. Leaders can greatly benefit by being able to identify the types of personality characteristics of team members. By facilitating each team member to function in their areas of natural strength and motivating them by communicating in a way that inspires harmony and team work, the leader is well on the way to achieving extraordinary results.
So called “great” leaders are often the worst leaders when they fail to leave a strong culture of leadership excellence behind after they depart the organization.
Summary: Most organizations are hampered by the poor performance of some of its members. The author shows the right perspective a leader should have in dealing with them.
Summary: After a quest of several decades to identify the differences between great leaders and poor leaders, leadership expert Brent Filson has taken a cue from Albert Einstein and the great physicist’s quest to find the unified field theory of the universe. Brent has developed what he calls “The Unified Field Theory of Leadership Success” four propositions that can help you be a much more effective leader.