Swift is smart enough to realize how much of her success — and her fans’ experience — is dependent upon these people. Recognizing and rewarding them is one way that she can express her gratitude and ensure a future as bright as the past two years have been.
Balancing leadership and team autonomy is a complex challenge that requires a keen understanding of personal preferences, the team’s working style, and the demands of the task. By cultivating a team that genuinely cares about quality, leaders can avoid policing and instead focus on their broader responsibilities, ensuring that accountability is shared respectfully across the team.
No individual leader has all the answers. Here are five strategies for a new leader to cultivate a community of leaders.
Leading requires courage and discipline as well as aptitude. It is something at which no one ever achieves perfection. The journey toward mastery offers continual opportunities to learn and abundant rewards for the effort. Precise language is important if we are to mitigate the damage of people who claim to lead, but don’t. Leadership is a noun. Leading is a verb. It is only by doing the hard work of leading that your followers will see you as a leader.
My recommendations for improving organizations by championing the human spirit, fostering trust and transparency, and eliminating low-value processes. When you start by creating the conditions for workers and customers to succeed, you achieve true organizational success (and make shareholders happy, too).
An environment that promotes good leadership will have zero tolerance for toxic behavior. Such an environment will use honest mistakes as learning experiences. It will be one that develops everyone’s ability to think and act like leaders. The list could go on. The examples in each of these books show that there are performance benefits beyond the intangible rewards of simply being decent.
