In our book Leadership OS: The operating system you need to succeed, my co-author Nik Kinley and I look to provide a clear and well-defined framework for leaders to navigate challenges and optimize team performance.
Consider these three key ideas:
1. Another way to describe the leadership OS is the leadership culture. It’s the culture that you, as a leader, create, and it is the key driver of people’s performance.
2. There are three elements of this OS that are critical to getting it right: trust, clarity, and momentum. While these three elements won’t solve all your challenges as a leader, we find that they can explain about 75% of what impacts leaders’ performance.
3. How we behave as leaders is actually less important than our impact. In other words, whether you are motivational or caring as a leader matters less than whether your people feel motivated or cared for.
Thus, we encourage leaders to focus on the culture they create through their impact on trust, clarity, and momentum. These are key as you learn more about the levers and techniques to optimize your leadership OS.
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