This Is What Leaders Do
Seven Essentials to Inspire and Empower Your Team
In the same way that the conductor enables talented musicians to make beautiful, majestic music, leadership is what empowers organizations to achieve greatness.
With the wisdom from over 5 decades of leadership coaching and mentoring, Russell E. Justice reveals the time-tested elements for leading any organization to Accelerated Continuous Improvement. This Is What Leaders Do gives you the components and examples to achieve enterprise excellence.
With clear guidelines and succinct detail, you’ll learn how to pinpoint your organization’s unifying theme, successfully launch—and maintain—your team’s engagement, develop and execute the right action plans, celebrate successes, and reinforce the behaviors that led to those successes.
The game-changing, practical insights here set you on track for rapid, lasting success.
People tend to make leadership far too hard; it’s just not that hard. For that reason, this book has two purposes: (1) to give you a template that, when utilized, will result in Accelerated Continuous Improvement and (2) to simplify your life by giving you the vital few components of effective leadership and the examples to help you move forward.
The concepts and examples you read about and study here will enable you to accomplish the following:
· Focus your organization on the vital few issues for your business.
· Align and mobilize the efforts of your workforce toward the focus.
· Go beyond just projects to enterprise-wide improvement.
· Tap into everyone’s discretionary effort (the difference in “have to” and “want to”).
· Get unstuck when tackling a problem and at a dead end.
· Trigger innovative and creative ideas that directly apply to your organization.
· Experience quality of management.
The purpose of this book is to share with you a methodology, a philosophy, an approach to “change the slope of the line”—to accelerate improvement.
COMING SPRING 2025
Leadership doesn’t have to be this hard. Simplify it with the seven essential elements that create a “want to” instead of a “have to” culture.
About the Author:
Russell picked cotton, worked the second shift in the village textile mill in high school, and participated in the cooperative education program at Marshall Space Flight Center while earning his engineering degrees from Auburn University.
During his days at Eastman Chemical Company, Russell combined behavior science with his engineering background to create the Accelerated Continuous Improvement process—the process that would launch his successful consulting and mentoring career. Working with leadership teams around the globe, his 5 decades of experience designing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives prove leadership can be simplified and transformative.