The Five Tasks: What Every Senior Leader Needs to Do!

by Stephen R. Graves

After more than three decades of examining the realities of what real senior leaders do when they are most effective, here is where I have landed; there are five key tasks for every senior leader. Just five. Every senior leader must set direction, set speed, set risk, set resources, and set culture. Those five universal tasks represent where every senior leader should invest at least 80 percent of their time internal to the company if they want to succeed. Neglect any of those five and you and the company will suffer. Nail those tasks and your leadership and organization will thrive.

82 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 24, 2020

About the author

Taken from Stephen R. Graves website:

Steve is an organizational strategist, pragmatic theologian and social capitalist. At any given time, he is advising 5-6 executives or business owners, along with 3-4 young energetic social entrepreneurs. He sits on a half dozen boards, holds degrees in multiple subjects, writes often and speaks occasionally. He lives in Northwest Arkansas with his wife Karen, has three adult children and if he doesn’t return your call quickly there is a good chance he snuck off to the river…again.