10 Leadership Resolutions to Make It a Very Good Year

By Jack and Suzy Welch
New Year resolutions -- who keeps them? Practically no one. But if you're a leader, be it of three people or 3,000, it's your flat-out responsibility to not just go into work every day and improvise around the latest crisis or email flurry or employee meltdown, but to go into work every day with a cohesive plan of action about how you're going to lead. Otherwise, why would anyone follow you, except that they simply have to? That's no good. So here's to 2014, and 10 resolutions to make it a very good year -- for you, and for the team you lead. 1) Get In Their Skin From the day you become a leader, your biggest role is to build trust, respect and support from your team. A mutual respect. As long as they deliver, you will support them and stand up for them in every way -- and they know it. It's a never-ending job and you can never slip up. >> Full Article