10 Mandatory Traits For The Leader Of A Highly Productive Company

You can’t have a successful company with a weak leader.

Business is a battleground. Battles are won by the leader’s direction, who has high standards, high values, and high execution.

These are the traits of a successful leader:

1. High attention to detail: a leader systematically determines what’s most important for the company. When an important metric is off, they relentlessly focus on it until it’s fixed.

2. Embraces simplicity: leaders execute a simple business proposition and live a relatively modest life.

3. Disdain for waste: Spending money doesn’t make you productive and successful. It’s the art of how you spend time and money. Great leaders hate waste.

4. Long-term focus: productive companies continually ask themselves, what’s the good long-term business reason for doing this?

5. High moral code: great leaders are courageously honest.

6. Head coach: leaders view themselves as a teacher. They set the standard, embody the values, and share insights and lessons with everyone.

7. Humility: being humble starts at the top. Productive companies are built upon the collaboration of everyone, and they don’t tolerate egomaniacs.

8. Competitive: leaders fuel the company with a competitive spirit. Not internally back-stabbing competitive, which leads to politics, but rather competitive with the market.

9. Rejects bureaucracy: bureaucracies are a waste of money, time, disrespects team members, damages a competitive spirit, and create a more complex company.

10. Believes in others: great leaders value their team and help them understand how what they do leads to the company’s success. They get others involved in the mission.

All great leaders embody these traits, which fuels the foundation upon which a highly successful business is built.

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