How To Build Strong Leaders

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‘Leaders achieve their results through the results of others.’

Strong leaders know who they are. They get better by challenging themselves.

They pay attention to what they are doing, how they are leading their people, and where they are going.

They get better every day. They get better by putting themselves out there.

So if you want to improve yourself, then you must get out of your comfort zone.

‘Trust is the new currency of work.’

According to Alain Hunkins, ‘Self-awareness is the skill that enables you to transform unconscious incompetence or competence into conscious competence.’

‘You cannot become excellent at anything if you’re oblivious as to why and how you do it.’

‘Leaders who are committed to developing themselves keep putting themselves in situations outside of their comfort zone.’

‘No longer are employees seen as mindless worker bees. Now, leaders need to be more involved and nurture and develop the whole person that comes attached to the pair of hands.’

‘Leading through fear and threats suffocates good decision-making and keeps teams mired in mediocrity.’

‘For sustainable success in the long term, trust is a must.’

‘Working together is what allowed small tribes of our paleolithic ancestors to survive and ultimately thrive.’

Commitment is built from the ground up, one relationship at a time.’

‘Empathic leaders pick up on cues that tip the balance of insight in their favor.’

‘The choices we make are only as good as the knowledge we have when we make them.’

Source:

Alain Hunkins (2020). Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

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‘Not all heroes wear capes, but when talking about your work, wear a fucking cape.’

‘… Even when you’re right, announcing you’re right doesn’t make you more right.’

‘Having confidence doesn’t mean we don’t have fear, it just means we don’t let fear stop us.’

‘The need to be needed is like that mouse you gave that goddamn cookie to: it will always ask for more.’

‘Asking for something and then giving up two seconds into an awkward silence doesn’t count.’

‘The only person thinking about if other people are thinking about you is you.’

‘When you realize a mistake wasn’t that big of a deal… then it wasn’t that big of a deal.’

‘We will encounter hard decisions throughout our entire lives. The key is not to avoid them but to lean into these tools to make them feel less permanent and more manageable. Remember, not making a decision is a decision.’

‘We’re programmed to continually size ourselves up to see if we’re good enough. But the more we compare, the worse we feel, and the more vicious the cycle.’

‘When you think about your work, what are the moments that make you feel amped up with energy?’

It’s time to face those fears and play the ‘What’s the worst that could happen?”’

Source:

Lia Garvin (2022). Unstuck: Reframe Your Thinking to Free Yourself from the Patterns and People that Hold You Back