Leadership (Leadership) is the core problem of each CEO should continue to torture the heart. As a YC partner, Ali Rowghani and Steve Jobs have included several leaders, with Bob Iger as the most successful, in this article, he will be divided into leadership of science and art in two parts were discussed. Perhaps his summary can to lead the buddies together. You some inspiration.
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You are a good leader? How can you make self judgement?
In the keen on various indicators to entrepreneurial culture management, many of the founders of their leadership is difficult to answer how the problem. It is easy for us to use a company to measure the success of its founder. But even the most successful entrepreneurs, is difficult to disassociate the opportunity and luck in this in the process of. We cannot be the worst company through research, to find out how to improve leadership method. So is there a better way?
I hope this method measure of leadership, to those who want to help improve the leadership of the people.
This method I and 4 outstanding leaders based on their work closely during the period of observation: Ed Catmull (founder of Pixar), Steve Jobs (Pixar CEO), John Lasseter (Pixar and Bob, chief creative officer) Iger (Disney CEO). To my surprise, these people in personal style character, and management methods are different. They cannot be grouped into a single model of leadership. A scientist is introverted character and the other one is outgoing. An artist is famous for the rude behavior of the school of business, the other is elegant and sleek occupation managers.
Despite their different styles, but they can establish a strong confidence in the team. They have in common is that they will be your way through 3 things to the extreme. I believe these 3 traits is a fundamental characteristic of a great leader. Without these qualities, you can't be a good leader. Because without them, there is no trust.
The method of leadership so judgment, is from the 3 dimensions to measure a leader. Below describes the specific content of the 3 dimensions.
3 basic qualities of great leaders
I believe that any character, type, personal / occupation background people can become an outstanding leader, they can be in a very different way to lead the team, and are very successful. But to gain the trust of others and being followed, you must be the ultimate in 3 key areas.
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Clear thinking, and can communicate effectively
Outstanding leaders thought clear, and good communication skills. They can describe and let people scramble to struggle for the vision. If your employees vision and strategy for you to feel confused, or think they are not exciting or trusted, they are focused and determined not to succeed to follow you.
Clear thinking is the premise of clear speech. In order to enhance your ability to communicate information, the best way is to take the time to think about what is most important for your career, when you need to know exactly what everyone in the team must understand that, as far as possible to use simple words to them express.
Brevity is very important. The best example is many years ago Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will deliver his retail strategy to his team. His strategy based on 3 simple but the change of consumer demand: lower prices, more choice, faster delivery. Today, Mason employees do everything that a lower price increase, selection, improve the distribution speed of things is still in the creation of value for consumers and strengthen its strategy.
As Bezos said, "you can be business based on durable demand. When you know that some demand is really, even long-term pay, you can still afford to devote a lot of energy which is needed"
The flowers in the internal communication ready on time, with the company becomes more and more important. When you expand your team, the team will become more and more diversified, and only a modest part of people and you have a personal touch. So, if you are not very good and they communicate. They will be very difficult to understand what you really think, it is more likely that they can't touch the mind and therefore misunderstanding.
A good leader will spend a lot of time to prepare for the internal communication. They will not be through for free speech, regardless of their talents in communication is high. For example, Shopify CEO Tobi L tke and his senior management team will spend hundreds of hours to prepare their annual staff meeting, like Tobi. Said: "we want to be a loose structure but also thought highly consistent with the company, staff of the general assembly is a way to approach this desire, because it is a" full synchronization ". We spend countless hours to prepare, because if we can do good communication at the staff meeting. And we will achieve a high degree of unity. Then, from the next annual meeting of a year of time, we use Zhou Huilai to make sure that everyone will not deviate too far"
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For people to judge
Good leaders have good instincts in personnel, especially when choosing who to give authority and responsibility. They can see a person's potential, but also can find out who. But when they make mistakes in hiring or promotion, it is inevitable if these people can not be improved by training and they can correct their mistakes. What can not wrong or not than the appointed leaders promptly corrected this mistake can destroy a company or a leader's authority. To recruit a person into the team or promotion when a person's judgment is the most important in the initial decision, because a leaders too often deny their earlier decision will lose its authority and trust of others to a great extent.
Not everyone is born to have good instincts, but everyone can improve in this area. To collect more information will help us do better in terms of personnel decisions. When we recruit when leadership, try with people in the field is a way to contact us or judgment as much as possible. As much as possible to understand the potential candidates. In a 2016 interview, Uber CTO Thuan Pham CEO Travis Kalanick mentioned that in two weeks he was nearly 30 hours of the interview, Travis when traveling through the Skype to communicate with him. "In 30 hours," Pham continued, "in fact I have forgotten that the interview is a discussion between two colleagues, like the whole process"
A large number of background checks, and ask about the good judgment and integrity of the case will help move very, because these things are hard to get tested in the interview. Remember your recruitment or promotion, but the fact is wrong, and not through training to improve people? Try learn from those experiences.
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Personality and determination
A good leader has excellent personality (Integrity) and the determination of the mission (Commitment). Excellent personality means meaningful things beyond the individual, rather than being driven by narrow personal interests. It means the courage to admit mistakes in the wrong when, instead of the table is like always right, and can open to criticism and try to improve. It means to avoid bias, conflict of interest, improper words, work in an improper relationship and so on, all of these will destroy your personal trust. A practical test is to ask yourself: if private communication and behavior you in front of your team is completely transparent, you will feel embarrassed for your words and deeds? This is a very high standard, is an outstanding leader to reach the standard.
In time, great leaders inspire others to maintain sufficient working attitude and strive for the ideal. The value of the individual to obtain the process of mission and satisfaction from leading people. They reach their personal commitment into highly personal productivity and execution, which in turn has become a driving force of their organization is the same do.
After all is trust
So how do you know he is a good leader? If you do in these three areas, in order to win the trust of the people around you, you are a good leader.
In this way the establishment of trust is both a science and an art, it also need to have the ability and personality. Trust is built clearly in the foreseeable future leaders, while the organization's products, sales, and team building to the right track. You should create products, should do investment, competition or technology a blueprint for change and so on, these results about future predictions are accurate? You choose a leader is proved to be correct person? With the passage of time, the answers to these questions were announced, if you get a lot, you will win the trust. I think this is the establishment of trust "science". It is based on clear thinking, good communication and good judgment on people.
The establishment of art partial trust is more complicated. Its leader and honest communication ability are closely related. It through you say the right thing at the right time, and show empathy and gradually establish good judgment to it. With beyond the personal ideal in you, and not your personal care success, wealth, fame or status. It also quietly growing in you are honest to others, when you don't know something to admit that you don't know, don't try to play them quietly growth. This is why you can't Steve Jobs or Ed Catmull by imitation to become an outstanding leader. You can only do your own.
Most leaders can understand and establish a scientific part of trust. They understand that they need to have a clear idea of effective communication and the product and strategy, to make the right choice when they hired and promoted candidates into leadership positions. They understand that they must show great determination and ability to get things done. But according to my experience, really great leaders also know how to build the art part trust. Leaders need to make many difficult decisions -- hire, take responsibility for mistakes, others refused to let people down. Outstanding leaders will handle these challenges as the opportunity to build trust. They asked themselves what kind of behavior and communication will increase the staff for their trust. When faced with difficult challenges, they asked what course of action and communication will increase the trust of employees. In order to get Trust, they will own route and communication optimization.
This is perhaps the greatest leader to teach us. In times of difficulty, when you measure two program, ask yourself as a person and as a leader, which road will let you get more confidence. Always choose the means more trust of the road.