Dive summary:
- As spring training begins in the Florida and Arizona sunshine, everyone gets to believe they're on the next World Series championship team — but who is to say that companies cannot change their cultures the same way if that's where they need to go to grow?
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Alan George "A.G." Lafley, recently retired chairman, president and CEO of Procter and Gamble, had four observations about what prospering companies will have done well. Their leadership will have been known to:
- Create an environment that fosters leaders of the future.
- Look constantly for ways to improve productivity.
- Foster an atmosphere of innovation.
- Execute the strategy with discipline.
- What's also needed is for senior leaders to have faith in the people they have brought along and to let them run on intuition even if they sometimes don't have facts to make the case for their decisions – after all, even winning teams don't finish at 1.000.
From the article:
Giving the “A” players an opportunity to lead will spread the desired culture. ...