4 Key Phases in Dealing with Leadership Failure

4 Key Phases in Dealing with Leadership Failure "How you deal with failure is a better judge of leadership character than how you deal with success." - Les McKeown, Do Lead Chapter 7 Anticipate Failure 1. Run a “red team" exercise 2. Set markers 3. Build enforced accountability Recognize Failure 1. Don't cancel accountability meetings 2. Treat data as information 3. Get outside view Manage Failure 1. Don't procrastinate 2. Separate yourself from "it" 3. Apply triage principles 4. Make the decision: fix, finish, scrap Learn From Failure 1. Have constructive postmortems 2. Learn the lessons 3. Move on DO/ Learn what it means to lead LEAD/ Share your vision Inspire others. Achieve Download the first chapter the impossible. Les McKeown Free #DoLeadBook www.DoLeadBook.com Icons from http://thenounproject.com Creative Commons - Attribution (CC BY 3.0)