Why Creating Clarity is a Leader’s Most Important Task in 2015
A leader’s most important task is to create clarity for themselves and their organization. Without personal clarity life satisfaction decreases and complacency sets in. Without organizational clarity productivity suffers and turnover increases.
Lack of personal clarity begins with lack of clearly defined goals both short term and long term. We know that “I want to accomplish something sometime” isn’t a goal, but if you look at the goals you have written down for 2015 (they are written down, right?) how many fall apart with a couple of probing questions? (e.g. “I want to run a marathon in 2015.” Why? “Because my I like to challenge myself.” How will training for a marathon help you spend more time with your family in 2015? “Oh...”).
The miniature scene at the end of the last paragraph sets up another big reason we lack clarity in our lives – prioritization. Successful individuals are adept at prioritizing, which means liberal use of the word “no.” Look over your goals once they are written down and rank them 1 to however many goals you wrote down. You can’t have ties. Winners make decisions. Before you get too anxious about your rankings understand that ranking a goal near the bottom doesn’t mean you won’t accomplish that goal it just means you might need more time than you originally planned.
Lack of organizational clarity is a three headed monster...
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