Tag: Intentional Focus

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- What Successful Leaders Know That Others Don’t

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

They know That:

‘Leadership begins with a need, not when someone wants to fill an empty leadership position.’

‘If you want to make an impact in the world, you must be able to influence people.’

‘If you focus your attention on a need that speaks to your heart, make the most of your abilities, tap into your passion, and develop influence, you can become a leader.’

‘You need to earn trust before people will buy-in, and you must earn it through character and competence.’

‘Crisis holds the opportunity to be reborn. Difficult times can discipline us to become stronger.’

‘People need to be reminded of why they are doing what they do, and of the benefits that awaits them as a reward for their hard work.’

‘If you go into leadership with the motive to serve others, the team, and the organization, it will be hard for you to go wrong.’

‘If you want to be the best leader you can possibly be, no matter how much or how little natural leadership talent you possess, you need to become a serving leader.’

‘Good leaders think outside the box and help the team break through barriers and cover new ground.’

‘If you want to become a better leader, become willing to make tough choices and uncomfortable decisions.’

‘There is no downside to adding value to people.’

Source:

John C. Maxwell (2014). Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership

An Opportunity To Stay Relevant

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

Growth matters. To grow is to be alive in the world. To change is to stay important in the world. Because of that, every change becomes an opportunity to stay relevant, to pursue what is important to us.

To pursue what you want is to see where you are going. If you can see where you are going, then you are not paying attention to what is important to you.

Why is that? Because no one can see the future. No one can predict the future. So do not even try to do it.

Instead of trying to predict where you are going, why not focus on what you are doing right now? Why not take charge of your life right now? Why not focus on how you are going to get to the other side of where you are.

Because what you want, what you want to achieve in your life is on the other side of where you are. To get it, you have got to get out of where you are.

If not, you are stealing from your future. You are delaying your future. The question is, ‘Are you adding to your future, or are you stealing from your future?’