Start getting results immediately by taking these ten actions now:



1. How do you know you are achieving them?



2. Send a memo to five members of your top management team. Ask them to send you their top three objectives and the ways they know the organization is achieving them.



3. Send a similar memo to five of your best middle managers. Also ask them to send you their top three objectives and the ways they know the organization is achieving them.



4. Compare and contrast the responses you get from top executives and middle managers. What have you learned? What will you do to increase alignment and teamwork resulting from everyone knowing and delivering against the top three objectives?



5. Write down the three most important ways for you to improve your leadership abilities along with key milestones and dates for achieving them.



6. What are the three most important ways for your managers to improve their leadership abilities? How and when will you communicate this to each member on your team?

7. How can your company or organization communicate better with its employees

and with its stakeholders?



8. Who needs to delegate better? How can you get him or her to do that?



9. Do you have the right people in the right positions? If not, what actions are you prepared to take to accomplish this?



10. Does the company or organization make and meet commitments without having to

follow up? If not, what actions will you take to make this a reality?