7 SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP

To be an effective leader, there are some principles you must incorporate into your leadership behavior and activites.
These principles includes:

1. Clarity: This is perhaps your most important responsibility. You must be absolutely clear about who you are and what you stand for. You must be absolutely clear about your vision and where you want to lead your people. You must be absolutely clear about the goals and objective of the organization and how they are to be obtained. You must be absolutely clear about the value, mission, and purpose of the organization and what it stands for.

2. Competence: As the leader, you must set a standard of excellent performance for the organization as well as for every person and function in the company. Your goal must be for your company to be as good as, or better than, your very best competitor. You must be continually seeking ways to improve the quality of your products and services to your customers.

3. Commitment: The leader is absolutely committed to the success of the organization and believes completely that the organization is the best in the business or will be the best in the future. This passionate commitment to the organization and to success and achievement motivates and inspire people to do their best work and put their whole hearts into their jobs

4. Constraints: The job of the leader is to identify the constraints or limited factors that set the speed at which the company achieves its most important goals of revenue and profitability. The leader them allocates people and resources to alleviate those constrains and remove the obstacles so it can perform as one of the best.

5. Creativity: The leader is open to new ideas of all kinds and from all sources. The leader is continually encouraging people to find faster, better, cheaper, and easier ways to produce excellent products and services and to take better case of his people.

6. Continuous Learning: The leader is personally committed to reading, listening, and upgrading his or her personal knowledge and skills as an executive. The leader should attend additional seminars and courses to improve his or her skills and abilities.

7. Consistency: The leader has the self discipline to consistent, dependable, reliable, calm, and predictable in all situations. An effective leader does not change from day to day. The leader is not blow in the wind by each new situation, problem, or emergency that arises.