5 Rules Great Business Leaders Always Follow

In my work with some of the top UK and international business leaders, I observe that they consistently do 5 things:

1. Build a picture of the future – they engage their people and paint an exciting and motivating future for their business and their people.

2. Communicate, communicate, communicate – great leaders unrelentingly remind their people what they want from them and their expectations.

3. Trust and empower their people – they employ the right people, give constant support and keep them focused on what’s important.

4. Hold people accountable – the leaders give honest and consistent feedback, regularly […]

In Winning, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch says he found that some ways of leading always seem to work in creating a winning company – and that they became his “rules” Here they are:

1. Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach and build self-confidence.

Take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. Use ample praise, the more specific the better.

2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.

There were times I talked about the company’s direction so much in one day, […]