Jennifer Peek provides clients with key strategic insights while helping them develop plans to profitably execute their visions. At Peek Advisory Group as well as through private mentoring, she consults with business owners identifying business gaps and opportunities to increase value and prepare them for the next stage of business evolution – from growth to varied exit strategies.

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LEADERSHIP INSIGHTS

- Leaders need to be very aware of their emotional connections so that they don’t get too invested and make poor judgments.

- In smaller organizations, leaders are used to being the go-to. This can make transitions difficult.

- Management teams (or just a general manager) are key to leadership transitions to provide process information and other key insight that might otherwise leave with a business owner.

- Most new owners have a vision to grow the company, and a management team will be key in ensuring that this vision takes place.

- Leading is slightly more important than managing, but without management leaders will fail.

- It’s easy to hand a task or responsibility to someone without giving them direction (abdicating) versus handing that task/responsibility and providing structure, goals, outcomes, and feedback loop.

QUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION

- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? Watching how leaders lead versus manage. This usually relates to problem employees.

- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: “A leader is…” Flexible, focused, and strategic.

- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? What are we doing well? Where do you think we’re missing the ball?

- What book would you recommend to leaders? Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Take a hard look at where you’re abdicating responsibility versus delegating responsibility.

- As a general life principle, is it better to ask “why?” or “why not?” “Why not?” because it leads to the corollary, “What’s the worst that could happen?”

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