{"id":93,"date":"2006-06-08T17:48:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T22:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=93"},"modified":"2006-06-08T17:48:19","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T22:48:19","slug":"more-on-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/more-on-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was worried that title was going to be &#8220;Moron Leaders.&#8221;  Deeper article here from Selling Power that provides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sellingpower.com\/html_newsletter\/sales\/article.asp?id=2460&#038;nDate=June+5%2C+2006\" target=\"_blank\">The Nine &#8220;P&#8221;s of Great Leadership<\/a>.  This comprehensive article is a quick read with much usable data.<\/p>\n<p>I particularly like their take on character as opposed to the article in the previous post.  From the Nine &#8220;P&#8221;s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Principles<\/strong>. Do the right thing all the time, not just when it\u20ac\u2122s convenient and not just when you know somebody is watching. Strive to lead with credibility, integrity, vulnerability, accountability, and steadfastness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A descriptive explanation as opposed to a cluttered topic intermixing character, personality and style.  One more excellent excerpt from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>People<\/strong>. A leader continually learns what his people need to do their best; he focuses on his people\u20ac\u2122s strengths and works hard to get the best out of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Focus on strengths and negate weaknesses.  A common mistake we see in training salespeople is the attempt to train a weakness into a strength.  A fool&#8217;s folly.  Training should focus on negating weaknesses and little beyond that point.  Strengths should be trained to the point where they become differentiating assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was worried that title was going to be &#8220;Moron Leaders.&#8221; Deeper article here from Selling Power that provides The Nine &#8220;P&#8221;s of Great Leadership. This comprehensive article is a quick read with much usable data. I particularly like their take on character as opposed to the article in the previous post. From the Nine &#8220;P&#8221;s: Principles. Do the right thing all the time, not just when it\u20ac\u2122s convenient and not just when you know somebody is watching. Strive to lead with credibility, integrity, vulnerability, accountability, and steadfastness. A descriptive explanation as opposed to a cluttered topic intermixing character, personality and style. One more excellent excerpt from the article: People.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/06\/more-on-leaders\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-1v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->