Faced with rapidly changing technologies and ever increasing customer demands, every business organization must make timely changes if it wants to maintain or improve its competitive edge. Yet most organizations are naturally resistant to change and will avoid it whenever they possibly can. Therefore companies need strong leaders who can drive the change initiatives. Leaders who can work outside of the box, revisit the way we’ve always done it, break the mold, and lead the organization to success.
Leaders are not found idling by the side of the road. Leaders are not found in the middle of the pack or lagging behind. Leaders are people who seek the top of the mountain. People who look for the best practices and the best current technologies.
When leaders reach the top of the mountain, when they find that best practice or best current technology, they stop for a moment to congratulate their team and celebrate success. Then they get up and move forward again. Looking for the higher mountain, a better way, a more efficient technology. True leaders know that resting on past accomplishments will result in a quick drop from their leadership role.
To be a successful manager you must be a strong leader who has a vision for the future. Your job as a leader is to search for innovations, to share your thinking and get others excited and involved with new ideas or approaches. Your job is to take risks and to try new ideas. And its not enough for you to just cope with change. If you want to be a true leader, you must be a driver of change.
About me: Dan Pelley conducts training programs for supervisors in the New England states, with a concentration in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Recent additions to his offerings are a six hour seminar titled "Thriving on Change" and a sixteen hour program titled "Leadership in a Changing Environment."
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