Let’s be honest, if you’re leading a printing company today, you’re steering through the headwinds of shifting customer demands, rapid tech changes, and economic uncertainty. There’s no single playbook, and “this is how we’ve always done it” is no longer a strategy. In fact, the old way could very well be a liability. So, how do the best leaders navigate this? They make clarity their secret sauce.
It’s not about knowing every answer in advance. It’s about having the insight to ask the right questions, frame decisions in the right context, and keep the business moving. It’s also having the courage to abandon the past as necessary, as Roselinde Torres talks about.
Clear Decision-Making Starts at the Top
The best leaders aren’t guessing. They carve out time to think strategically, even when day to day operations try to pull them under. They define what success looks like both short term and long term. To them, having a team that is empowered to make aligned decisions at every level is crucial. When the vision is blurred, I’ve seen teams either freeze or fill in the gaps with assumptions and their initiative is strangled – none of which ends well.
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