Eleven Ways to Infuse Your Company with Leadership Skills

In good times, running a company is exhilarating - money is flowing, customers are happy; employees have a spring in their step. In not-so-good times-like now-the very same job can feel like scaling Mt. Everest in a snowstorm while wearing a knapsack filled with bricks and suffering from a bad case of the flu. All reports indicate that a recession is coming and you suspect the next few years will be rough. You know there's no "magic pill" for business success, but you do wish someone would at least give you, say, a guidebook to healthy habits.

Today we look at another aspect of leadership – that during our current climate of tough economic times. As the author, Quint Studer clearly states, it is times as these which clearly separates organizations with dynamic leadership from those with mediocre leaders. As the following excerpt clearly states, time is of essence;
"Great leadership is everything," says Studer, author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top (Wiley, October 2007, ISBN: 0471757292). "All other elements of success flow from it. Companies with mediocre leadership can skate by when the economy is booming, but in tough times they really suffer. Your leadership must be top-notch. If it isn't, you may not be around five years from now."

This is a great article by Quint Studer published recently in the News Blaze which really takes a no-nonsense approach to leading – in good and in the not so good times.
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