To Manage Well - Do What Successful Managers Do

Nothing will help your road to success as much as studying the habits of those that already have.  Building upon available knowledge gives you the foundation for success.  From that foundation you will find your own identity and characteristics.

How do you learn all the tricks of the trade involved in leadership without spending the years suffering the pains?  Quite simply, you learn from those that took that very route.  Thanks to their trials, errors, and successes, you can avoid many of the barriers they encountered and propel yourself upwards much faster.  When you run into problems, you will know how they handled a similar situation and how they fared.  This allows you the advantage of insight.  You accelerate your progress by learning from those that have the experience, characteristics, and attitude that successful leaders and winners of life have.

Successful executives at mid and high level positions learned the majority of what they know from their initial supervisory position.  This book delves into the minds of many successful leaders at various levels, but particularly the initial level.  Experience at the initial level helps form your managing style.  If you want to succeed as a leader and many other aspects of life as well, you need to learn the secrets used by other successful managers.

“Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.  Those who do not are ultimately judged failures, even though they may be popular at the moment.”  Henry Kissinger.

Effective managers know how to maximize the efforts of employees and the means available to them (equipment, processes, etc.).  More importantly, they know how to maximize their own efforts and that of their employees.  They maintain a long-term vision of the desired direction, while working through day-to-day operations.

The greatest common denominator of all great people is their commitment to living a moral, value-based life.  Strict morals (honesty, integrity, character, etc.) allow a person to avoid the pitfalls that befall so many men and women.  Successful people know that doing wrong, immoral things are paid for thousands of times.  Your conscience becomes ridden by guilt and you suffer a dear price.  Continued denial of wrongdoing furthers your erosion of character.  Others can see what you so desperately try to keep hidden and begin to question your character.  Strong moral values expand your influence while immorality restricts.

From book, "Strategic Insights - Managing By The Book" by Marvin Pirila