Vernon Myers
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Vernon Myers Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Leadership, Creativity, Ideas, and Ideation
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, and Coach
- Affiliation
- CEO Space International
Vernon is a passionate leader of people and organizations. His leadership experience ranges from leading combat infantry units to leading design-build efforts for live simulators to leading contingency contracting organizations. His open-minded approach to leadership revolves around collaboration, inspiration, trust and quickly creating results.
Using skills gained from a lifetime of learning and practical experience, Vernon provides innovative solutions to challenging problems – he is not content with easy solutions or the first “right” answer. As a career U.S. Army Officer, he has worked and traveled in the Pacific, Middle East, and South and Central America.
He is the founder of 100 Leadership Insights.com, a website dedicated to sharing and discussing insights on leadership between practicing leaders world-wide. He is the author of The Idea journal, a book that helps people to unleash their urge to create. Vernon is offering a free 5-week E-Course based upon the concepts from The Idea journal. He is also a featured author in the book 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, a self-development book.
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Leaders Think Integration
Organizational Environment Today, large organizations are extremely complex and busier than ever. Because of their size, they face greater challenges, such as increasing competition and an increasingly global environment to operate in. To consistently produce outstanding results, organizations must overcome the challenge of figuring out how to capitalize on the full talent, skill, and ability of its workforce.
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Leaders Are Accountable
“Everyone has a boss…,” from the President of the United States, to the assembly line worker in a factory. Leadership and accountability go hand-in-hand, you can’t have one without the other, in fact, leadership without accountability is akin to a dictatorship; accountability without leadership is extremely frustrating at best or an exercise in futility at worst.
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Leaders Are Consistent
The leader of an organization is the standard bearer for what “right” looks like. He would not be in a position of leadership if he did not represent what the organization values and, presumably, wants more of. Naturally, followers seek to emulate the leader because of the prominent position she holds. However, what happens to an organization if, behind the scenes, the leader is a bad example of what the organization is about? What if the leader shines in front of his superiors yet treats his subordinates badly?
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Leaders Are Readers
Leaders have an unquenchable thirst for knowledge; they have to know; they have to learn; they have to get as much information as possible. Leaders seek to learn from the experiences of other people to include those captured in the form of biographies, autobiographies, organizational histories, and life stories. Leaders want to know how other leaders have fared in their leadership journey; how they thought; what they did; what they learned…they want to constructively use other leaders’ life experience as a model to live by…a model to learn from.
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Leaders Are Single-minded
What does it mean to be single-minded? How does single-mindedness look? Single-mindedness is the relentless pursuit of a goal, objective or end state. To become single-minded, the leader must make a decision to focus on only one thing, to the exclusion of everything else – one idea, one project, one goal, one end state. Everything else is secondary to the pursuit of this goal or objective.
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Leaders Are Students of Leadership
Leadership is about growth and development, if you are not growing and developing on a continuous basis, you are simply not working hard enough. Leading is like being a student in a laboratory; every day you should conduct experiments to see what works and what doesn’t. After trying your hand at leading, you go back to the drawing board to tweak your style and approach. Students are constantly challenged to look for new ideas and to develop fresh thinking. The key is to keep learning.
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Leaders Think!
The most important skill a leader possesses is the ability to think. Remember, when you were a student in school, your teacher always told you to put your “thinking cap” on? It’s still true; leaders must always have their thinking caps on to operate at their highest level. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company and the thinker credited with creating the first manufacturing assembly line said, “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
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Leaders Recognize That Leading is A Gift
Leadership is a privilege reserved for those who are ready for the awesome responsibility of training, developing, mentoring, guiding, and correcting the people who are under their charge. The task of leadership offers long hours, lots of hard work, frustration, setbacks, and obstacles…leadership is not easy, yet like anything else you get out of it what you put into it.
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Leaders Conduct After Action Reviews
Leaders are responsible for producing outcomes and getting favorable results; sometimes the results are good, other times the results are not so good. Whether the results are positive or negative, a leader’s objective is to continuously improve organizational performance over time. One way to do this is through reviewing an organizations’ current performance in order to inform and shape its future performance. One way to improve performance is to capture it, review it, and then to share it with your team.
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Leaders Are Responsive
Good leaders must possess the ability to effectively communicate to superiors, subordinates, and peers. Responsive leaders must not only be able to communicate effectively, they must be able to communicate in a timely manner with clear purpose and intent.
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Leaders Follow Through
Leaders are responsible for making things happen, on-time and as scheduled. Superiors and subordinates don’t want excuses from their leaders, they want results. When a leader makes a commitment to complete a task or accomplish a mission, follow-through is the guarantee that he provides to all stakeholders that gives them the confidence to believe that the job will get done properly.
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Leaders Care!
Ultimately, a leader who shows that he cares is good for the organization. Some critics may write this off as being touchy-feely, but people are people and an organization is made up of many, many emotional people. A leader has to find a way to show his followers that he cares about them. In fact, showing that you care about your followers is not only necessary, it’s a requirement. Followers don’t really care about how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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Verno Myers.com
This is my blog where I focus on the intersection of leadership and creativity with the intent of helping leaders to unleash their creative abilities.
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The Idea journal E-Course
The Idea journal E-Course is a free, 5 week course that will help to jumpstart your achievement.
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