For Val, great leadership comes down to these five elements: Doing, Deciding, Delaying, Delegating, and Dividing it all up between you and your team. #howleaderslead #davidnovak #podcast #youtube #dailyinsights #leadership #valackerman #bigeast #commissioner #women #womenleaders

I have my five D's of leadership. Most are self-explanatory, but they are, number one, do. Leaders do. Sometimes you're the one that has to do the acting. Number two, leaders decide, critical skill. We don't always get them right, but I think the more advanced you are as a leader, the better your decision-making capabilities become. Number three is delay decision-making. Sometimes the best decision is to not make a decision and to hang out and wait and see if the facts change. The fourth D is delegate. Can't do it all, so you have to rely on your team to do some or most of the work. And then number five, which for me became important in the space I'm in, is what I call dividing it up, which is figuring out who you have to involve in either the doing or the decision-making process. Sometimes the decision falls to you and you alone, but other times you gotta get others in the mix. So those are my five D's, and I probably rely on all five of them pretty much every day.