CHAPTER 11

Leading Others Effectively

Being an entrepreneur often means beginning a small business by yourself, and almost all of what you have read so far has been about understanding how to lead yourself.

However, when you achieve a level of success that requires others to join in your venture, you will need to be the leader of them as well. So let’s talk about leading others. I could just say, “Take all of what you have already learned in this book about leading yourself and apply it to ­leading others.” Tempting … but no, because there are differences between ­leading yourself and leading others. And, there are more ­elements to consider when leading others so I’m going to go into some depth here. I’m going to make a lot of points of which ...

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