Primary Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities in a leadership position are not to:

• Shape up the team.
• Inspire.
• Weed out the deadwood.
• Enforce the rules.
• Create new programs.

All of those may be needed and wise courses of action, but your primary responsibilities are  twofold: to be ethical and effective. If that means being soft-spoken, methodical, and slow-moving, so be it.