The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Leaders Who Fail To Follow Up, Fail Their Business   Companies spend considerable time and treasure to improve the business.  Ideas are generated and projects initiated.  New hires are brought in to expand the business. Training is delivered to raise skill and ability levels.  All of these types of activities need leadership.  Why then are leaders so poor at doing the follow up?  Everyone is busy, but the leader’s job is to translate all of that busyness into results and outputs.  In Japan, a big part of this problem is the incomplete self-awareness about the true role of the leader.   I have seen this same scenario so many times over the years.  We gather for the offsite or a similar innovation session.  We break into groups and start brainstorming ideas to drive the business forward.  We spend hours digging out creative ideas, debating the priorities, getting them down on to large sheets of paper and sticking these sheets up on the wall.  We take our colleagues through the findings and then listen to their