Category: Leadership Skills

To become an extraordinary executive, one key is to identify a reasonable number of issues that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization, and then spend most of your time thinking about, talking about, and working on those issues.

If everything is important, then nothing is.

Most leaders spend the majority of their time and energy making their organizations smarter, with relatively little effort directed toward making them healthier.

Plenty of anonymous and forgotten companies have squandered intellectual advantages because of infighting, lack of clarity, and other problems that plague unhealthy organizations.

In his book, The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive, author Patrick Lencioni seeks to help executives understand the disarming simplicity and power of organizational health and the four actionable steps that allow them to achieve it.

Click here to learn those 4 actionable steps from Lencioni

As someone who recently retired from one long career to start a different role—much like Tom Brady—I’m excited to bring you insights from the championship career of Tom Brady, who exemplifies “Study” (the inward discipline of focus for this month).

The 12 Lessons in Business Leadership as written by Anne Mary Ciminelli and Kevin Daum are an extraction and catalogue of the leadership insights from Tom Brady’s public behavior on and off the field.  In the book’s foreword, CEO, Coach, Speaker, and Author John Daly urges us to model the masters.  Find people doing things well, and emulate their behavior.

Like them or not, the New England Patriots of the 2000-2019 seasons set a standard of excellence reflected in their winning ways and multiple championships. Tom Brady, as the designated leader and quarterback of the team, set record upon record in leading them to such excellence.

There’s a common myth that leaders are born, not made.  However, Daly notes that in his experience, the best leaders are the ones who commit to a process. They dial in on a vision, establish the rigor of systems and processes, practice relentlessly, and operate in a culture of discipline.

It’s better to figure out the one best way, practice the best way, and increase the probability of success.  The 12 important lessons in business leadership delivered here, when consistently followed, will distance you from the competition. There’s nothing difficult here. It fundamentally comes down to execution. That is leadership!

Click here for the 12 Lesson’s in Business Leadership