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Leadership: Top 7 Secrets of Highly Successful Managers

Why do some managers make managing look easy and enjoy major success while others never seem to figure it out?

Effective management is no accident. The best managers have studied success and have learned the secrets.

See how you match up against these seven:

1. Ask lots of questions. Listen, and then listen some more. Great questions open up dialog that you otherwise might have missed. When you listen, really listen. You'll be amazed at what you'll hear and your staff will be thrilled you care.
2. Practice 360 degree learning. Learn something from everyone and everything, inside and especially outside your own industry and business. As Tom Peters says, when you wander around you're sure to find out what's really going on.
3. Be slow to hire, fast to fire. Having the right staff in place is your most important managerial responsibility.
4. Accept less of the credit and more of the blame than you deserve. Enough said.
5. Focus. Pay attention only to high impact issues that matter most. Delegate or eliminate everything else.
6. Lead. Your staff wants to know where you're taking the business. Most of them will follow in you share your vision and values.
7. Recognize and reward. Be lavish, public and prompt with praise and awards for work well done.

BONUS SECRET: Stay humble. You may have the power and the title, but nothing good happens without the dedication, commitment and hard work of your staff.

To Lead

Learning to lead can be pleasant and painful, frightening and invigorating, rewarding and frustrating - all at the same time. The only certainty is that how you lead will be remembered. For better or worse, your leadership becomes part of the legacy you leave behind in your job, your community and your life. Every action you take contributes to that legacy, every day. Have fun, give it your best and enjoy the space between a rock and a hard place. It's where diamonds are made!

Managers Are Made, Not Born

Managers need to be train how to handle and motivate their subordinates.
Successful managers practice :

1. Understand and Negotiate the Right Management Contract
2. Be Yourself
3. Listen
4. Don't Badmouth One Group to Become Accepted by Another
5. Be a Role Model
6. Rely on Your Ability to Support, Not on Your Ability to Do
7. Give Up the Illusion of Changing Anyone Except Yourself
8. Blow Your Team's Horn, Not Your Own
9. Focus on Your Team's Strengths
10. Take Charge of Your Own Growth
11. Be Patient
12. Work on Your Emotional Intelligence
13. Tell the Truth
14. Don't Manage, Lead

Dimensions of emotional intelligence :

1. Self Awareness - knowing enough about our own internal triggers, hot buttons, personality weaknesses and strengths to talk about them openly and comfortably. Self Awareness is the cornerstone to developing emotional intelligence.
2. Self-Regulation - the ability to regulate and control one's own behavioral responses to situations and events.
3. Empathy - the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see things as they might see them.
4. Empathy - the ability to put yourself in someone else's shoes and see things as they might see them.
5. Social Skill - being sensitive to human dynamics and the feelings of others in how we interact with them. Social skill is where emotionally intelligent leaders get to practice all of the preceding emotional intelligence skills.

Do you delegate or do it.

"An effective manager frees himself from parts of his routine job and get others to do it".

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Business Idea

- Assessing Business Risk -
"It is important to recognize that no matter how much you work on your business plan, there will always be unexpected twists & turns".

- Assessing The Capabilities -
"Another basic ingredient of entrepreneurial success is a good understanding of strength & weakness".

- Assessing The Competition -
A product or service doesn't necessarily have to be unique, but you have to think of yourself as providing a distinct set of benefits to customers".

- Building A Team -
"The people you want on your team should be individuals who are willing to put some skin in the game, who are looking to build something and who are willing to take necessary risks".

- Building the Plan -
" Planning is crucial for effective execution. Planning gives you a better command of the details you need to pay attention in order to make the plan happen".