The advantages seeking employment online reach far beyond accessing thousands of available positions around world. Most employment sites offer resume assistance, ability to post resumes for potential employers to view and even ability to instantly submit a resume to positions of interest. Conducting a job search online eliminates a part of stress associated looking for work as well as matches employees with employers much faster than ever for better pairing and more effective results.

The Fallacy operates when leaders believe that their beliefs are automatically reciprocated by people's beliefs.

The fact is, because leadership is challenging people to do what they would not otherwise do, leaders' belief is seldom reciprocated. Automatic reciprocity is an illusion. If it happens, great. But for most part, leaders have to work at making reciprocity happen.

M - Measurable. There is no value in business without measurements. Measurements link disparate things, organize activities, and help unify those activities. Apply precise, meaningful measurements to results we want before we challenge others to get them. Without measurements, we can't make consistent improvements. Make sure your measurement system conforms to four attributes, that they are RELIABLE, REPEATABLE, ACHIEVABLE, and CONTROLLABLE.

E - Ethical. As a leader, you not only have to get results, but you have to get right results. Results only happen when people take action. To get right results, they must take right action. Ethics help promote right action.

Ethics, then, are not traffic lights, they're running gears. Ethics shouldn't impede your getting results, they should help you get more results.

R - Repeatable. Evaluate your leadership and leadership of others not only on results you achieve and don't achieve but on results that you REPEATEDLY achieve.

When we talk about repeatability, we must deal with process. A process is a series of mental or physical steps leading to results.

Often, results are not as important as processes you develop in getting results.

Repeatability is promoted when you identify steps that helped you get those results then apply those steps as a process to get more results in that area or get additional results in other areas.

In that way, you make repeatability a driving force of your leadership.

Just because you're getting results doesn't mean you're being successful. Success hinges on getting right results in right ways. Whenever you must lead people to achieve results, apply SAMMER Test to clarify, prioritize, and give direction to actions that must be taken to achieve right results.

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