Unpacking effective leadership and the 5% rule [Video]

Leadership is as much science as it is art. And in the context of C-suite executives, the mandate for effective leadership is magnified.

The 5% rule seeks to eliminate project actualization bottlenecks and proposes that leaders spend deliberate and concentrated time with other team members at the start of a project to make key decisions.

“The way I define that is more strategy-driven execution versus execution-driven strategy,” said Anil Singhal(pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of NetScout Systems Inc. “For example, we do this every day in that when we have to go somewhere and we plan for it, we don’t just go to our garage and start driving, we look at the Google Map, we decide depending on where you are, ‘Should I take a train? Should I take an Uber? What time I should drive?’ Sometimes we decide to postpone the trip. All of this takes less than 5% of the total effort before execution, which is …