Entrepreneurial Leader

Leading Change

 

Extreme Leadership: Case Studies 10 Best Practices

 

Adapted from: Leading on the Edge off Chaos, E. C. Murphy, M. A. Murphy

  

   

Leading in the rapidly changing business environment, on the edge of chaos

 

 

 

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.

Rupert
Murdoch

 

 

1. Make haste slowly

Leadership intelligence is more important than ever – move with greater speed and precision than ever before, but take time to think.

 

3Bs of Strategic Creativity

Learning SWOT Questions

 

 

 

Steve Jobs advice quotes

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.

Steve Jobs

Apple

 

 

2. Partner with customers

Now, more than ever, customer satisfaction and retention are critical to customer success.. You must partner with your customers, reconnect with them to create a shared future that is more secure than either could have built alone.

 

Customer Engagement

KoRe 10 Tips

Customer Intimacy

Customer Feedback

 

 

Jack Welch advice business quotes

The 3s of winning in business are
Self-Confidence, Simplicity, and Speed

Jack Welch

GE

 

 

3. Build a culture of commitment

Build and preserve a culture of commitment, one where employees passionately pursue your organization's cause and mission. Strengthen your corporate culture by providing strategic alignment, creating a shared sense of purpose and aligning rewards and incentives appropriately.

 

Inspiring Culture

Team Culture

Motivation

Gain Sharing

Benefits

 

 

 

Alexander the Great leadership quotes

An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.

Alexander
the Great

 

 

4. Put the right person, in the right place, right now

Create a high-performing team with a wide range of talents – assemble and align the right collection of talent to face the challenges that lie ahead. Invest your human capital to maximize individual, team and organizational success.

 

Star Team

Characteristics of a Winning Team

Team Leader

Synergistic Team

 

 

 

 

     

Maximize knowledge assets

In the new economy, your organization's ability to harness and maximize knowledge plays the dominant role in creating competitive advantage Download PowerPoint presentation, pdf e-book. You must learn to identify, mobilize, and create knowledge assets to boost the value of your organization's intellectual capital.

 

Cut costs, not value

While managing costs, don't cut the muscle along with the fat. Progress means moving resources from low value to high-value uses. Reduce expenses while protecting and enhancing the value of your business.

 

  

Outposition your competitors

Build and leverage your organization's unique competitive dimensions – in a rapidly changing and increasingly competitive business environment, success goes to those who can understand and develop sources of distinctive competitive advantage.

 

Stir, don't shake

Manage stress without loosing your competitive edge – reduce anxiety and inspire hope by stirring employees to higher levels of achievement, not shaking them with fear and negativity.

 

Cut through the noise

Get your message through the "noise" that rises in tandem with volatility and chaos – without the ability to communicate effectively, a leader's other skills are worthless.

 

   

Focus or fail

Stay focused and on track – follow a carefully structured process that would focus your energies while highlighting and prioritizing high-leverage opportunities for success.

 

 

 

Vadim Kotelnikov advice quotes

Change-Leadership Perpetuum Mobile:
Change creates Leaders, Leaders create Change.

Vadim Kotelnikov

Vadim Kotelnikov, founder of 1000ventures - personal logo    Business e-Coach    Innompic Games icon

Max DePree quotes

Be vulnerable to real surprise.  >>>

Max
De Pree

 

Extreme Leadership Mindset