Leading With Authenticity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Who are you? Are you who you say you are? Are you doing what you say you are going to do?

Remember, when it comes to leading other people, authenticity is what people are looking for. People are looking for real leaders. They want to work for a real leader.

The question is, ‘Are you a true leader? To answer this question, according to Sabrina Horn, ‘Being a true founder is a position without boundaries but with infinite responsibilities.’

‘Improvement and growth can never rely on faking it until you make it.’

‘A leader with integrity is unbreakable.’

‘Integrity is the table stakes for leadership. To possess integrity, you need to be whole, undivided, sound, uncorrupted, and incorruptible.’

‘True leaders search for what they can give; others search for what they can take.’

‘Minimization lies often involve rationalization and take place when people can’t completely deny the truth.’

‘A new venture is a stress test for any relationship.’

‘Values will be the basis of your company’s brand, your culture and traditions, what you stand for, how your people behave and perform, how you work and communicate, and everything in between.’

‘Optimistic leaders look for solutions at all times, often when the stakes are highest, at the darkest moments, at the eleventh.’

‘Running a successful business means making the right decisions at the right time, based on reality.’

Source:

Sabrina Horn (2021). Make It, Don’t Fake It: Leading with Authenticity for Real Business Success

‘The Path To Boundless Leadership’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When your people are struggling, don’t leave them alone. When they are lost, bring them back to where they are supposed to be.

Empower them. Show them the way forward. That is what great leaders do.

The question is, ‘Is that what you are doing right now?’

According to Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan, ‘If we want to arrive at our full potential in business or life, we must expand our awareness.’

‘When we’re not self-aware, we’re not able to self-correct for our negativity bias and unconsciously close ourselves off to what’s good in ourselves, other people, and the situations we face.’

‘When we interact with others, we can become more focused on who we think they are than on who they truly are or what they’re saying.’

‘When we change the quality of our input and the way we process information, not only does our perspective expand and changes, but we see more clearly and completely what can be changed in our organization or in any given situation.’

‘Developing clarity in any one moment is like standing on a threshold that can lead to a new way of being based in the trait of self-awareness.’

‘When conflicting intentions motivate our actions and reactions, they create a dissonance that detracts from our effectiveness.’

‘What makes boundless leadership different from conventional leadership is that it allows us to observe, check, and adjust what our minds are doing at any given moment.’

‘As boundless leaders, metacognition allows us to push our capacity for self-awareness much further, so we’re reaching the full scope of what is happening in any given situation- with fewer or even no unseen biases or limitations.’

‘The path to boundless leadership is not about accumulating more knowledge and skills or remedying our deficiencies to improve our leadership. Rather, it’s a counterintuitive path that begins with exposing and eliminating self-limiting obscurations, so we can gradually access and develop our unlimited yet dormant potential for thriving.’

‘Compassion is not about being nice or pleasing others- it’s about relating with accurate empathy, concern, and skill to the reality of other people’s lived experience, a vital step toward social cooperation that explains the powerful win-win biology and psychology of positive emotions evident in the new fields of affective neuroscience and positive psychology.’

Source:

Joe Loizzo and Elazar Aslan (2021). Boundless Leadership: The Breakthrough Method to Realize Your Vision, Empower Others & Ignite Positive Change