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Leadership requires selflessly guiding others.
“Good leaders are facilitators of success. They use their talents and influence to clear the way for their team members and help them succeed.”
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Smart leaders play to their own strengths.
“[A person’s] purpose in life is always connected to…his or her giftedness. ”
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The Self-Aware Leader
- Leaders who are not self-aware find it hard to lead.
- To lead others, you must first lead yourself.
- Leaders must be accountable, disciplined and patient as well as being good followers.
- Leadership requires selflessly guiding others.
- Smart leaders play to their...
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People leave firms for one main reason: bad bosses.
“As leaders, we think that when people leave our team or organization, it has little to do with us. In reality we are often the reason.”
For positive relationships, avoid these mistakes.
- “People quit leaders who devalue them” – Show people you respect and appreciate the...
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Leaders must be accountable, disciplined and patient as well as being good followers.
- “Learn followership” – You can’t learn to “lead well” if you don’t learn to “follow well.”
- “Develop self-discipline” – Those who cultivate this kind of self-discipline grow in their ability to exercise authority over others as well. You are a King, y...
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Don’t micromanage your team. Manage your own responsibilities
“If you want to be a better leader, you need to learn what needs your attention and what doesn’t.”
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Leaders who are not self-aware find it hard to lead.
“No leader can be too self-aware. The better you know and manage yourself, the better you will be able to lead and serve your team.”
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To lead others, you must first lead yourself.
“Nothing so conclusively proves a man’s ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ” (former IBM chairman Thomas J. Watson)
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Leaders need to acknowledge their mistakes and learn from them -1
The mature path is to learn from errors and from these leadership tips.
- “Choose focus over further exploration” – Some leaders are dilettantes
- “Choose personal growth over immediate gratification”
- “Put your team ahead of your career advancement”
- “Handle criticis...
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Leaders need to acknowledge their mistakes and learn from them -2
- “Judge your leadership by the success of your team” – Good leaders make things better
- “Take the longer road that leads to higher leadership”
- “Listen more than you talk” – When people speak to you, pay attention. Don’t get distracted or fidgety. Focus on them.
- “Credit ...
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They Focus on Their Team's Personal Growth
Good leaders know that unless their team members get better than what they were yesterday, they won’t achieve the higher goals set today. And if they aren’t achieving higher goals each year, they are stagnating.
These leaders work with their team members to help them achieve personal growth...
Charismatic Leadership
Charismatic leaders inspire and motivate their team members. But they often focus on themselves and their own ambitions, and they may not want to change anything.
Charismatic leaders might believe that they can do no wrong, even when others warn them about the path that they're on.
Kurt Lewin's Leadership Styles
Psychologist Kurt Lewin developed his framework in the 1930s, and it provided the foundation of many of the approaches that followed afterwards
- Autocratic leaders make decisions without consulting their team members, even if their input would be useful.
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