The most effective leaders I know have their own set of key performance indicators and ruthlessly evaluate their performance so that they don’t fall into the trap of believing their own press clippings. Sometimes it can be as simple as asking yourself the right questions and then being brutally honest with your answers.
Source: Marta Wilson, June 7, 2017.
Great leaders strive to create an environment where people frequently smile, exhibit happiness, and show an abundance of energy. An environment where any redundancy, waste, and abuse that may exist become easier to discover, measure, monitor, and eradicate.
INSIGHTS: Effective leaders usually have an individual they trust outside their organization, and often outside their industry, who they use as a failsafe mechanism to periodically double-check their answers to these questions.