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Successful leaders, entrepreneurs, and business professionals lead very busy lives.

They often end up wearing many hats as they grow their businesses and take their companies to new heights.

So how do successful people stay productive? They stay organized.

But no one is born organized. It happens by building good and effective habits.Try these 12 simple starting points to organize your life.

While many leaders rely on proven past methods (often learned in B-school), others are taking new approaches that help them transcend what they already know. These fresh methods help them handle the day-to-day, while becoming responsive to other things that matter.

One of these “new” methods is a coaching approach that has been used with individuals, now making its way into the C-suite.

“The ‘coach approach’ asks leaders to define who they want to be at this moment and in the future,” says Jennifer Antolak, president of Learning Journeys, a life coaching academy. “And it’s about helping others understand that we support their choices.”

All organizations, even those currently enjoying low turnover, cannot afford to rest on their laurels. Experts warn that despite rising slightly for the past decade to the current average of 4.6 years per person/per organization*, employee tenure will begin to wane in the future as the job market continues its recovery and more Millennials enter the workforce.

So, how can an organization increase employee retention and slow the “revolving door” of turnover? We explore this topic in great detail in our professional development course that examines employee engagement through the lens of Disney Culture. But, for the purposes of this blog, we offer this advice: Leaders should start by asking the question “Beyond a paycheck, what do my employees value?”

A global electronics manufacturer seemed to live in a perpetual state of reorganization. A new line of communication devices for the Asian market required reorienting its sales, marketing, and support functions. Migration to cloud-based business applications called for changes to the IT organization. Altogether, it had reorganized six times in 10 years.

Suddenly, however, the company found itself facing a different challenge. Given the new technologies that had entered its category, and a sea change in customer expectations, it needed a new strategy. The CEO decided to shift from a product-based business model to a customer-centric one. That meant yet another reorganization, but this one would be different. It had to go beyond shifting the lines and boxes in an org chart.

Pope Francis has approval ratings any leader could envy: 88 percent of American Catholics think he's doing a good job, and nearly three quarters of Americans in general view him with favor. What is he doing right?

To answer that question, business author Jeffrey A. Krames examined His Holiness's approach from a leadership perspective, and the result is Lead with Humility: 12 Leadership Lessons from Pope Francis. Though a non-Catholic, Krames was inspired to write about the pontiff because he is the child of Holocaust survivors, he explains. "When I saw Pope Francis, I thought he was the anti-Hitler."

Here are some practices that make Pope Francis so effective--and that any business leader could use:

1. Reach out to non-customers.