The secondary title of this book is “ Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential”
Robert Kaplan has extensive experience as a senior business executive, professor at Harvard Business School, and an adviser to leaders worldwide, He provides a simple, powerful framework that includes seven key areas for inquiry.
Here are some keynotes he made during t a recent talk at Google:
- “Every successful sustainable business start with a vision about how to serve a client or make a positive impact on the world…based on a clear distinctive competence”
- “Leadership = working on deciding what you believe – get to conviction – and then act on it.”
- “Leadership is about getting advice.”
- “Be a Role-model.”
- “Coaching – doing it and getting it – is crucial….”
Touching on the areas of inquiry, he mentioned:
- Ask the right questions and be open to learning. Can you write down your clear vision? Can your team repeat that vision in writing?
- Pick 3-5 key tasks – to be done superbly well to achieve that vision. This is Prioritization.
- Match your time with your top priorities. Learn to say NO!
You are ready coach people and get coaching, once you have these three!!!
If you don’t communicate priorities, you are a bottleneck.
Be aware of what stresses you out. Know when you are at your best and when you are at your worst.