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Leading With Mindfulness

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When you are at peace with yourself, with your inner self, you are alive. When you are flexible in how you live your life, you are alive. You are living, not just existing.

That is how mindful leaders lead their lives. They focus on what is important to them. They are not after what is trending. They are after what is alive, not after what is popular.

According to Keren Tsuk, ‘A mindful leader is a leader who can go beyond the day-to-day activities and connect both to the broader picture and to higher purpose. This means cultivating the ability to be in being, at presence, to listening, and to pausing alongside our doing.’

‘Mindful leadership offers a holistic view that embodies a great deal of flexibility for employees and considers their personal needs.’

‘Organizational control is achieved through existential empowerment, through which employees bring their personal ways of work to the organizational space.’

‘Letting go of control means giving employees space and freedom of action to bring their uniqueness into play with their work.’

‘A key practice of leadership today is giving people room to realize themselves, room to deliver creative ideas and innovation.’

‘Confidence begins when people believe they are capable of coping with the challenges they face, even if they do not know how to face them.’

‘Self-awareness allows us to shift because it allows us to practice in a way that is fundamentally adaptable, cutting out the noise of everything else.’

‘Authentic human connection at work … holds people accountable in a way that a team does not; it allows us to step out of our characters and into ideas that are more valuable, more aligned with innovation.’

‘Mindful leadership … is characterized by an inward awareness of the self-awareness of the self and an outward awareness of a need for supporting the development of others.’

‘A mindful leader … is driven by service for the purpose of business and not only by motives of power or money.’

‘A growth mindset sees everything we do as another experience that allows growth and development as a leader.’

Source:

Keren Tsuk (2021). Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders

Peter Drucker’s Enduring Wisdom For Today’s Leaders

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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If you want to gain more wisdom, put your knowledge to work.

Because ‘you cannot arrive at the right definition of results without significant input from your customers…’

‘A fundamental responsibility of leadership is to make sure that everybody knows the mission, understands it, lives it.’

‘Never subordinate the mission in order to get money.’

‘Our business is not to please everyone casually but to please our target customers deeply.’

‘Transformation requires moving people out of their old organizational boxes into flexible, fluid management systems.’

‘Leadership is a responsibility all members of the organization share, and it is circular.’

‘Concentration is building on success, strengthening what does work. The best rule is to put your efforts into your successes.’

‘If you have more than five goals, you have none.’

‘Planning does not substitute facts for judgment, nor science for leadership. It recognizes the importance of analysis, courage, experience, intuition-even hunch. It is responsibility rather than technique.’

‘Every interaction with a customer is now marketing. Marketing was once focused on the destination- and that destination was most likely a purchase. Marketing is now is about the customer journey, and customer expect you to be there to help them every step of the way- before, during, and after the purchase.’

Source:

Peter F, Drucker, Frances Hesselbein, and Joan Snyder Kuhl (2015). Peter Drucker’s Five Most Important Questions: Enduring Wisdom for Today’s Leaders