Great Leaders Share Strategies to Help You Achieve Long Term Success

Posted July 2, 2015 & filed under Productivity, Work Environment

What does it take to be truly successful? Is there a formula that isn’t affected by time or the environment in which one is living? There is no exact formula and there is not one method or another that works for everyone. Many successful people have had some luck along the way. But, it is clear that advice is always helpful and should be considered when trying to get ahead. So, what have some of the most innovative and successful people done to achieve great things? They shared some strategies and Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker and Franklin Shen of Decision Strategies International outlined the highlights of these strategies. These researchers and authors of the book “Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future” found that the most successful leaders have forward-looking attitudes. They have visions and think about the future. They think big.

Read some strategies that you should incorporate in your work life to help you reach your goals and become successful.

• Anticipate by seeing sooner and scanning wider…be on top of the change that is ahead
• Interpret and connect the dots…be adept at find connections between the pieces to the puzzle of new ideas and technologies
• Decide and take courageous action…look forward and consider the different paths to reaching your goals and new heights
• Align people around innovative ideas…diversity is important and embracing others and bridging differences can help innovate
• Learn by experimenting and turning failure into opportunity…embrace failure and don’t be afraid to fail

This last point is a good ending note. Failure is not something to be feared. We can all learn from failure! Sara Blakely is the billionaire founder of Spanx, and she explains that failure shouldn’t scare us.  She loved that her father used to talk about failure and that he often asked, “What have you failed at this week?” 

Read more on this topic in the book “Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future”