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Author: Brent Filson
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Summary: A critical challenge facing all leaders is creating urgency in the people they lead. Here are seven steps that will help you move people from complacency to urgency.
Seven Ways To Instill Urgency In The People You Lead by Brent Filson
It's one thing to lead people to accomplish tasks, but it is another altogether to lead them to accomplish tasks with a deep sense of urgency. Instilling urgency in people is an abiding challenge of all leaders. Yet few leaders I have encountered know how to do it consistently and systematically. Here are six things you must recognize to trigger and sustain urgency in the people you lead.
1. Recognize the Leader's Fallacy. The Leader's Fallacy bedevil's most leaders. It is manifested when a leader mistakenly believes that the people will automatically reciprocate the motivation of the leader. The leader believes the people will be urgently motivated simply because h/she is a leader and is telling them to be motivated. The truth is, automatic reciprocity doesn't exist. Reciprocity must be earned.
2. Recognize the People's Fallacy. Which is that the people mistakenly believe that urgency is negotiable. Urgency is not negotiable. If you want to get great results with the people, urgency is always an absolute necessity. Look, leadership isn't ( Next Page )
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