1. Admit when you are wrong
2. Recruit people who have better skills than you
3. Take holidays
4. Take responsibility
5. Understand your Leadership style
6. Keep on learning and improving
7. Laugh
8. Keep a sense of perspective
9. Be inspirational
10. Have a clear Vision
11. Truly understand how the numbers work
12. Know how to make a profit
13. Trust your instinct
14. Make mistakes and learn from them
15. Live and breathe your Brand
16. Know when to walk away
17. Be Passionate and convey this to your team, customers and suppliers
18. Prioritise what really matters
19. Understand yourself and how you come across to others
20. Love managing and leading
21. Understand what makes high performing teams
22. Be tenacious
23. Innovate wherever you can but not just for the sake of change
24. Devour new ideas and technologies
25. Network – appropriately
26. Create “no blame” cultures where people try things
27. Trust people
28. Can sell their business concept
29. Problem solve
30. Break down barriers
31. Spend more time on strategy and the future than the day-to-day
32. Believe in themselves, their product/service and their people
33. Maintain a healthy optimism
34. Develop others as a way of developing their business
35. Coach problems away
36. Be a Great Listener
37. Keep perspective on everything and constantly review
38. Build relationships for the present and potential future
39. Experiment and play with ideas and concepts
40. Bring energy to what they do and energise others
41. Provide structure
42. Are constantly curious
43. Question the things that others don’t
44. Keep themselves and their businesses healthy
45. Know when and how to say “ No”
46. Cut down the working hours in your day
47. Take time out to think
48. Have times when you are not available to anyone
49. Understand how to communicate in different ways with different people
50. Know and use the strengths and weaknesses of your team.
51. Delegate effectively
52. Be Flexible
53. Don’t procrastinate
54. Keep exploring
55. Push boundaries
56. Ask Why Not?
57. Have Fun
58. Be Proud of what you do
59. Respect yourself and others
60. Create a business that can run without you
Fiona Shafer
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