Category: Management

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- Leading With Integrity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Before you can lead others, you must first lead yourself.

Before you expect integrity from others, you must first lead yourself with integrity.

‘Be fair and honorable in your business dealings. It’s the only way that you and your employees can leave a legacy to be proud of.’

‘Never lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. The culture of your organization starts with you.’

‘Own your lapses in judgment. It happens to everyone. Correct the problem and return to being a person of good character.’

‘Only promise what you can deliver. The quickest way to lose trust is to overpromise and underdeliver.’

‘Be decisive. Don’t take too much counsel of your fears. Be thoughtful, but not paralyzed by indecision.’

‘Be humble in your demeanor and your expectations.’

‘You are not entitled to anything but more hard work.’

‘Attack each day as though it were critical to the organization’s success.’

‘Accept the fact that this will lead to zealousness and the occasional screwup. This overenthusiasm is better than a culture of inaction.’

‘Learn from your mistakes and be prepared to take the next big risk. Don’t let a single failure define you.’

‘No great leader was ever timid or weak-kneed.’

Source:

Admiral William H. McRaven (2023). The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy)

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- Managing Your Blindspots

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Blindspot: An unrecognized weakness of threat that has the potential to undermine a leader’s success.’

‘People who are smart and self-assured are often very skillful at justifying their thinking and behavior- to the point of being in denial about their weaknesses and the threats they face.’

‘Mistakes are the royal road to understanding blindspots, particularly when repeated over time and in different situations.’

‘Part of the skill in identifying and overcoming blindspots is to understand that some are the result of individual traits and others arise from situational factors.’

‘Leaders can assume they are aware of what is occurring around them when, in fact, they have partial, sometimes inaccurate, and often outdated views.’

‘There is some truth in the saying that the surest way to destroy a company is to give it ten years of unmitigated success.’

‘Leaders must strive to create a culture that promotes straight talk but also pay attention to the nuances of communication in the decision making process.’

‘The challenge is to remain focused on the decision that needs to be made while simultaneously paying attention to subtleties that can easily be lost in the heat of debate.’

‘Leaders need to listen openly before a decision is made and then become drivers of results once it is reached.’

‘One of the burdens of moving up is that the complexity of the decisions leaders face increases at the same time as their ability to reveal their vulnerabilities decreases.’

‘Successful leaders have a strong belief in their own abilities … the best and the brightest can easily come to believe that following anything other than their own convictions is foolish.’

‘The leader creates the team and the team then creates the leader– as a primary source of feedback and advice, it becomes a key influence on the leader’s thinking and behavior.’

Source:

Robert Bruce Shaw (2014). Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter