6 Ways to Be an Effective Leader — entrepreneur.com

One of the greatest challenges of starting a new company is convincing employees, vendors, clients and talent to entrust their futures to an organization with an untested track record.  A good leader will steer the company in the right direction, while bestowing confidence in people they work with and hope to work with, making that leap of faith a little less daunting. When I founded Polis Books, I faced the challenge of attracting distribution, vendors and talent to an unproven organization. So I looked at the most successful independent publishers in our industry and found there was a common thread: They had leaders with a clear vision, strength in their convictions, yet open-minded enough to not only hear but learn from their employees.

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