Why Great Leaders Are Different

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Why are great leaders great? Why are they different? Because they are in it for others, not for themselves.

Because they do things differently. So if you want to be different, then you must do your own thing differently.

In his book 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart, Andy Ellis writes, ‘Leadership is helping someone become a better version of themselves.’

‘Find your blind spots by hearing unbelievable things.’

‘Make the smallest and most defensible argument necessary to spur action.’

‘Don’t be irreplaceable; be unclonable.’

‘Create safety to let people warn you of danger.’

‘Keep your hand on the wheel to stay in your lane.’

‘If you don’t pay attention, you’ll miss the gorilla in the room.’

‘Act faster than your adversaries and slower than your allies.’

‘Serenity is knowing that the crap you’re wading through is crap you chose to deal with.’

‘The best available outcomes often involve finding hard compromises between groups you advocate for.’

Source:

Andy Ellis (2023). 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart

What Great Managers Know About Management

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Great managers are human beings. They manage things, not people.

In his book Management 21C, Subir Chowdhury writes, ‘The biggest obstacle to launching a successful company is no longer attracting financial capital but attracting intellectual capital.’

‘The successful ventures are truly creative collaborations of talented people committed to beating the odds.’

‘We must move from the head to the heart and go after people’s affection, intuition and desire.’

‘Managers will ‘read’ the future and help proteges prepare for it.’

‘The best managers will have large following because of their expertise, not because of the authority that goes with their position.’

‘Who you have learned from will be just as important as what you have learned.’

‘Learning requires effort on both sides. It cannot be accomplished without creating specific projects which acts as carriers of new learning.’

‘Excellence in leadership development will involve teams that emphasize the importance of both human resources development and business experience.’

‘Leadership development must be viewed as a long-term investment. The payoffs take time.’

‘Those who aspire to lead will understand that their effectiveness begins with their own development and ability to share knowledge in a soluble manner.’

Source:

Subir Chowdhury (2002). Management 21C