Now What?

As a leader what must I do to make sure this year ends on a high note?

Here is my answer to the above. (Feel free to share yours.)

1. Outline “Must Do” Continuous Improvement Initiatives and support them right.
   We must all change or die. That sounds dramatic but our jobs, our departments and our companies only survive when we understand and practice continuous improvement like brushing our teeth. Continuous improvement initiatives are notoriously tough to do between Thanksgiving and Christmas.Our Support: Lean on us to discuss how to make continuous improvement a habit like Brushing your teeth (www.johnruh.com/brushing-your-teeth/).
2. Make sure we have in place the three best practice programs any company large or small needs.
   Our Support: We are doing a separate piece on this.  Call/email and it will be sent to you.
3. Share all information (good and bad) with everyone.
   We attended the leadership summit (along with 300,000) internationally. Alan Mulally, who was CEO/President of Ford Motor Company when they turned it around, discussed how he did it. He stated that if you want everyone to be accountable for the success of the company they need to know the score. He also said was that everyone needed to be transparent with each other, beyond just sharing all information.

P.S.
Our support. We are happy to support you with the above and will do a one free 60-minute session on any of these topics and what we learned at the summit. When do you do want to speak/meet?