No matter how experienced or intelligent they may be, no chief executive takes the big chair with every skill they’ll need to lead their companies to their greatest success. The fact is, even at that level, there is still a lot of on-the-job learning to be done. That said, there are a few life skills that a thoughtful executive can master that will make the learning curve a little less daunting.
One innovative recommendation made in this Business Insider piece about life skills executives should cultivate is willpower conservation.
On any given day, you’ll be asked to make the final call on dozens if not hundreds of decisions that will have an impact on your company’s potential success or failure. And with each decision you make, your reservoir of willpower will be that much closer to being depleted.
Consequently, you should take proactive steps to conserve the amount of willpower you expend on a daily basis. As the article notes, one way to do this is putting together a wardrobe of similarly huge closing that will work equally well for formal and informal occasions. That sort of preparation will allow you to bring the full measure of your decision-making abilities to bear when making the choices that will determine your business’s future.
Find out other life skills that are essential to good leadership by clicking the link below.
Read the full article here: http://www.businessinsider.com/15-surprising-ways-to-master-essential-life-skills-2016-5
