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Boost Your Signals
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
—Peter Drucker
To optimize your leadership, you must focus on sending only the signals that help effect the change you want. To avoid sending the wrong signals, we need to borrow one more principle from General Chuck Jacoby: concentrate on doing what only you can do, and leave the rest to others when you can.1 That seems simple enough, but we’ve seen with many of our clients just how hard it is to send only high-quality signals. It requires great discipline.
Improve Signal Quality by Focusing on What Only You Can Do
It makes sense that a general would use this approach. The military term “general” derives from the ...
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