Lead Like Reagan by Dan Quiggle

Author:Dan Quiggle [Quiggle, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781118928455
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-06-16T00:00:00+00:00

Setting Priorities

This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks.

—Ronald Reagan2

President Reagan set an ambitious agenda to accomplish while in office; however, he wisely limited his promises to a few key areas and therefore was able to deliver on the things he promised. Ronald Reagan demonstrated the importance of having an overarching framework of goals and then taking action accordingly.

As a leader, everything you do should fit into the established guidelines of what you believe and the primary leadership goals you want to achieve.

Regardless of your available resources, it is almost certain that you will never be able to accomplish everything you want to as a leader. True leadership requires establishing priorities and focusing limited resources in a few strategically selected directions. Focusing on fewer items makes it more likely that the ones you pursue will actually succeed.

I was fortunate to learn early on from President Reagan the importance of staying focused, taking action, and being decisive based on specific, predetermined priorities. This came into play for me personally when I was exploring the possibility of expanding my company into multiple additional states. While I was in the midst of that consideration, but before I did so, the economy took a sudden and dramatic downturn. This forced me to shift priorities and become more valuable to a smaller group of customers locally and regionally. In the end, I was far more successful in narrowing my focus to a specific group of customers rather than trying to expand my customer base and risk jeopardizing the high level of customer service I was giving to my existing customer base, especially at a time when the market was so unsteady and volatile.

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