Why Become A Better Leader?

Great leaders never stop learning.

2024 starts the second year of The Business Leader Daily, and our mission remains the same: to help business leaders grow into great leaders.

Why?

Your impact on the organization can be enormous if you're a business leader.

Effective leadership leads to better team and company engagement, commitment, and performance.

However, you will face numerous obstacles, and learning to become a better leader is hard; there is so much to learn and never enough time in the day.

The only way to become a great leader is to continuously improve your “leadership craft.”

Exceptional leaders think of leadership as a craft. They know they will always be working to improve, and that what worked today may not work tomorrow.

Tracy Spears & Wally Schmader, The Exceptional Leaders Playbook

Why The Business Leader Daily?

For over twenty-five years, we have been avid students of business, strategy, and leadership.

We have also been fortunate to learn from some amazing teachers and mentors during our careers. We have benefited from their impact and seen firsthand what great leadership can accomplish. They have helped and inspired us to become better leaders.

As we wind down our careers, we plan to repay the gift by sharing what we've learned to help future leaders.

How?

We will share summaries of leadership advice, best practices, and powerful techniques twice weekly through this newsletter.

Our focus is helping to keep short but powerful lessons top of mind and provide resources for when you want to go deeper into a topic.

Some of these leadership themes may be new to you, and some may be topics you have previously covered. We aim to prioritize lessons that are fundamental and timeless.

You will see themes repeated again and again. This is done on purpose.

Sometimes, it takes hearing a message several times before it sinks in. Also, It never hurts to be reminded of the basics.

Looking back at 2023, we are proud of the progress made in our first year and excited to continue our journey.

Starting something is always harder than it looks, especially when you want to create something meaningful. There is a lot of room to improve, but that is what makes the challenge worthwhile.

We take inspiration from Ryan Holiday in his book, The Perennial Seller:

Creating something that lives—that can change the world and continue doing so for decades—requires not just a reverence for the craft and a respect for the medium, but real patience for the process itself. By patience, I’m not referring just to the amount of time that creation will take, but also the long view with which you evaluate your own work. And the long view can be really long.

Ryan Holiday

With that, we will continue into 2024 on the journey of becoming a great leader.

Thank you for joining us!

Josh

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