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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

Always Be Honest With Yourself

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

‘Honesty is a practice you undertake as a lifelong pursuit of being, rather than an ad hoc criterion weighing on a certain decision.’

‘Dishonesty often works for a time, just as the wax-hewn wings of Icarus helped him soar close to the sun. But just as Icarus learned that the penalty for flying without the proper ingredients can be quite severe, so, too, can practicing dishonesty long term.’

‘Dishonesty is a sneaky threat; one step toward deception can hurt you just as much as the big, glaring lies from those deceitful examples.’

‘Compounded, these small, oft-hidden lies are just as dangerous as billion-dollar deceptions– not only because you might get caught but also because you lose the opportunity to find the truth and all the doors to innovation and advancement that the truth naturally opens.’

‘Time and time again, we followed the path of dishonest gains. And sometimes, instead of disapproving of our deceit, society allowed and even incentivized our dishonest natures- especially if a few influencial souls stood to make a profit.’

‘Someday soon, the window for using lies to get ahead will permanently close. That is approaching more quickly than some unscrupulous leaders would care to admit.’

‘Every challenge your business faces, in every department, is an opportunity in disguise, waiting for you to figure out the win-win-win solution.’

‘Honesty isn’t a cost; it’s an investment that will drive better products, experiences, sales, marketing, finance, culture, and more.’

‘Being honest about what you’re selling, how you’re selling it, and what buyers want out of the buying experience-will lay the foundation for an exceptional outcome every single time.’

‘We must obliterate our self-inflicted roadblocks by changing our behaviors and the behaviors of those around us, which takes either political savvy or brutal truth.’

‘You can’t hear what you’re trying to tell yourself unless you learn to block out the noise and home in on your true identity.’

Source:

Peter Kozodoy (2020). Honest to Greatness: How Today’s Greatest Leaders- Use Brutal Honesty- To Achieve Massive Success