Although the business competition becomes tougher, the number of opportunities also increases. In fact, it is very challenging for business owners to win every challenge to be the best in the field. Challenges and competitions motivate people to do the best to reach the main goal. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s new, it’s old, it’s straightforward, it’s unorthodox. It works. The Tony Soprano approach is a leadership paradigm that responds to shifts in the world in which we work, maps to the organizations we work for and suits the way we live. Read the rest of this entry »
Taking the Tony Soprano approach may mean that you work faster, delegate more or squeeze harder. Perhaps it means that you keep an eye out for innovation and an ear open to suggestion and criticism. Hopefully it will help you to build better teams, avoid and resolve conflict, manage up, know yourself and negotiate better. Read the rest of this entry »
Tony Soprano is an effective leader, because each facet of his leadership style responds to the needs of his business, meets the challenges served up by competitors and reflects how his people work. Because his business environment is in constant motion, Tony is fast, flexible and direct. Read the rest of this entry »
Hey, no one said it was gonna be easy. Being a leader is difficult; the path strewn with pitfalls and problems. Even if you don’t have murder and infidelity on your managerial rap sheet, you probably aren’t perfect. Chances are your faults are different from Tony’s. Read the rest of this entry »
Leaders set the tenor of their organizations. And lapses, omissions and screw-up can do significant damage. All eyes are on our leaders, whether they know it or not, and so their slipups have ripples far beyond their immediate consequences. Read the rest of this entry »
Leaders must review projects and monitor progress, always looking at what went wrong or what could be better next time:
➤ Make lists of errors made and lessons learned.
➤ Figure out what caused errors and what worked to fix them. Read the rest of this entry »
We all make mistakes, even leaders, even good leaders.What separates the ones who will stagnate from those who will grow is the ability to learn from mistakes. Poor leaders don’t listen to criticism and don’t admit their mistakes. They think it will diminish them. Read the rest of this entry »
