Nimble Leader Volume I: Create Unrelenting Focus on Achieving Results

By Andrew Ortyn

Throughout Nimble Leader (six volume series), we explore key concepts that have proven to be practical, useful, and applicable to achieving sustained improvement in business performance over the long term. In Volume I: Create Unrelenting Focus On Achieving Results, you are exposed to the 'five touchpoints' that meld strategy with leadership behavior to deliver outstanding business results: (1) Market Position – what you stand for in the minds of your customers – is EVERYTHING; (2) Your ability to 'give and receive' information sits at the epicenter of decision-making, speed, execution, and performance; (3) Six variables! A quantitative and facile understanding of how Market Position relates to Price management, Volume sales, product and service Mix, Cost expenditures, and Working Capital management is absolutely essential to delivering tangible business results; (4) A quest to build self-awareness within, among, and across leaders in your organization is the starting point to effecting change in leadership behavior; (5) Practice, practice, practice. Then . . . practice some more. Think of one example of demonstrated excellence where practice was not a critical element in achieving excellence. Not possible! Volume I of Nimble Leader represents a synopsis, a CliffsNotes, of the entire Nimble Leader Series. We give you everything, up front! The five touchpoints are then expounded upon in much greater depth in Volumes II – VI. In reading Volume I of Nimble Leader, you are provided the flexibility to choose additional volumes that warrant further drilldown, exploration, and reflection – at your own pace!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
• Release date: May 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781633192676

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Create Unrelenting Focus

on Achieving Results

"I am not built for academic writings.

Action is my domain."

—Mahatma Gandhi

Volume I

Table of Contents

Introduction – Nimble Leader

Fire on All Cylinders ... Five Takeaways!

Takeaway #1 –Market Position is EVERYTHING!

Takeaway #2 – Information to Results!

Takeaway #3 – Six Variables!

Takeaway #4 – A Quest to Build Self-Awareness

Takeaway #5 – Practice, Practice, Practice

Summing It Up

Nimble Leader – Next Steps

Notes

Introduction – Nimble Leader

Why This Series?

Strategy. Leadership behavior. Results. The three need to mesh for good things to happen in any business.

As a leader, have you ever felt vulnerable because your background, experience, and title suggest you should know more than you do? Join the club!

As a leader, you are…

• Paid to get it right … the first time

• Paid to see the micro and macro trends before they occur

• Paid to have real-time strategies that address multiple market scenarios

• Paid to have contingency plans for eventualities that may or may not happen

• Paid to be the ‘great leader’ in tune with your colleagues, subordinates, superiors, key stakeholders, alliance partners, and of course your customers!

The above depicts a level of leadership perfection, a sense of omnipotent capability. This orientation also breeds a mindset that leaders cannot show vulnerability in any way – that an inability to understand the whole picture, all of the time, somehow implies that you are not on