Know-how: The 8 skills that separate people who perform from those who don't
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Know-how: The 8 skills that separate people who perform from those who don't
by Leslie Dillon, from Leader's Digest March 2007
Harvard Management Update summarized their adaptation from Ram Charan's recent book, Know-How: The 8 Skills That Separate People Who Perform from Those Who Don't, this way:
- Setting priorities is hard—but extremely necessary—work. Whereas goals are set at 50,000 feet, priorities are set at ground level, where leaders must have the willingness to probe into messy details and the tenacity to decide on the most important actions and think through their consequences.
Here's a list of the 8 skills Charan believes are necessary for success (which I got from Amazon, not Harvard Management Update!):
- Positioning (and, when necessary, repositioning) your business by zeroing in on the central idea that meets customer needs... (Charan stresses repositioning)
- Connecting the dots by pinpointing patterns of external change ahead of others.
- Shaping the way people work together by leading the social system of your business.
- Judging people by getting to the truth of a person.
- Molding people into a working team of leaders that equals more than the sum of its parts.
- Knowing where you want to take your organization by developing goals that balance what it can become with what it can realistically achieve.
- Setting laser-sharp priorities that become the road map for meeting your goals.
- Dealing creatively and positively with societal pressures
Know-How is the missing link of leadership. (Harvard Management Update, March 2007, and Amazon.com product description.)
