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Lead Your Own Corporation
The basic rule for success in your life, your work and your
career is for you to see yourself as the president of your own
personal services corporation—know that you are a leader.
See yourself as an independent contractor selling your services back into your company on an hourly rate. See your current employer as your best client, at the moment. You are in
charge of the success in your life. You make the decisions and
determine the direction of your own personal services firm.
When you are the leader of your own private corporation,
you must continually think in terms of leadership to make things
possible. What do the top people do in each organization?
What are the key responsibilities of managers and senior
executives? Of all the things that you could do each day,
what are the things that you do that are the most important?
Leaders have been studied for many years. We now know
the exact qualities that most differentiate a leader from a nonleader. When you begin practicing these qualities and behaviors, you step on the accelerator of your own career and
move quickly to the front in whatever you are doing.
Be Innovative
The first job of the executive is to continually seek out newer,
better, faster, easier and cheaper ways to get the job done
and then to market the new, improved products and services
to even more customers. When you practice the processes of
restructuring, reengineering, reinventing and reorganizing on a
regular basis, you continually improve your ability to innovate
and create new and better products and services and market
ever more of them against your competition.
Achieve Results
Your second major function as the senior executive of your
own life is to perform and get results. In the final analysis, this
is all that really matters. This is all that people care about. Did
you get the job done? Yes or no?

Generate Success in Your Life
For you to perform and achieve the very highest quality and
quantity of results, you must be clear about the key result areas
of your job and then dedicate yourself to performing in those
areas at a high level. Your job is to do whatever it takes to get
into the top 10 percent of people in your field. This may take
a month, it may take a year or it may take longer, but it
doesn’t matter. This reputation for excellence will open more
doors for you and make more things possible for you than any
other single attribute you can acquire.
Solve Problems
The third major function of the chief executive is to solve problems and to make decisions. Your ability to solve problems
effectively and make good decisions quickly will accelerate
your career and increase your leverage. When you are able
to effectively problem solve, you gain the ability to make
things possible and create more opportunity for success. This
is your core job description. The better you get at solving
problems and the more accurate you become at making
good decisions that get results, the more you will be paid and
the faster you will be promoted.
Create Opportunities
As the president of your own company, you are responsible
for setting and achieving your own goals. You are responsible
for setting priorities and working on key tasks, allowing you to
make things possible. You are responsible for maximizing and
optimizing both the time and knowledge you have available
to you. As the president of your own company, you must take
action continuously, aggressively and determinedly in the
direction of your most important goals and objectives. No one
can do this but you, and if you do these things well, your
future success in life is guaranteed.
Source: Adapted from an article by Brian Tracy International, Solana
Beach, Calif. Visit www.briantracy.com.

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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013
Contents
ACHE Online
Take Note
Perspectives
Managing Your Career in Transformative Times
Generation Now: The New Era of Leadership
Aspirations of a Servant Leader
Professional Pointers
Healthcare Management Ethics
Satisfying Your Customers
Community Health Innovations
Public Policy Update
Careers
Governance Insights
Improving Patient Care
CEO Focus
Executive News
On the Move
Member Accolades
Chapter News
Professional Development Calendar
2013 Editorial Index
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Take Note
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Perspectives
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Managing Your Career in Transformative Times
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Satisfying Your Customers
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Community Health Innovations
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Public Policy Update
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Governance Insights
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Improving Patient Care
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - On the Move
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Healthcare Executive - November/December 2013 - Member Accolades
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