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‘Illuminating The Heart Of Leadership Through Literature’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Great businesses, great ideas, and great accomplishments usually originate in an individual’s deepest aspirations.’

‘A compelling image- of a better world and a best life for themselves- impels them forward through obstacles and hardships and engages the aspirations and dreams of others.’

‘Dreams have real and pervasive consequences, particularly the dreams of men and women with power over others.’

‘Good dreams have deep roots in a person’s character and everyday life, not in the images and seductions of society around them.’

‘What do successful leaders really care about?’-

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

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‘Good dreams reshape themselves as time goes by, and they deepen and strengthen relationships with other people.’

‘Love of drudgery may be a better test of a healthy dream than excitement or inspiration.’

‘Leaders make a difference in the world by refracting their dreams through an endless series of small and large efforts- over hours, weeks, and years.’

‘Leader’s reactions to their failures can be as revealing as the failures themselves.’

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr.

‘To understand whether a leader has a moral code for conditions of change and instability, we need to look more closely.’

‘Leaders can lose their way, even when they have he best of intentions and outstanding skills, because of the relentless, intense, and extraordinary varied demands they face.’

Source:

Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (2006). Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature

How You Can Become An Extraordinary Leader

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘How will you behave when your ethics are tested?
How will you respond to suggestions that you help the organization by looking the other way while laws are violated?’

Stephen H. Baum & Dave Conti

‘Ordinary beginnings are not an impediment to becoming a great leader.’

‘Self-knowledge is critical as you move ahead in your career, and you need to understand the strengths and weaknesses in your own character.’

‘As you move from stage to stage, you test your ability to lead, you assess your satisfaction or dissatisfaction with the outcome.’

‘The test comes the first time there are real personal stakes on the table and a choice has to be made that would have a serious monetary, career, and reputation consequences.’

‘The development starts early, but character is completed only by experience- your sense of ethics, your integrity, fairness, and compassion, all become sound and reliable only when they are tested in the world.’

‘Character means doing the right thing when no one is there to see as well as when your actions are visible or will likely be revealed to the world at large.’

‘Leaders are able to transcend their own fears and self-doubt when facing challenges.’

Stephen H. Baum & Dave Conti

‘Being ready to lead means being able to confront issues and make decisions without regard to your own insecurities and self-limiting beliefs, your personal job security, or your reputation.’

‘Leaders learn to act quickly and wisely and lead in the face of life’s many surprises. As a leader, you not only exhibit the emotional readiness to act when others avoid or recoil from the risk and stress that action would entails, but you also exhibit the critical thinking to do so wisely.’

The question is, ‘How did they develop these traits in the first place?’

Source:

Stephen H. Baum & Dave Conti (2007). What Made Jack Welch Jack Welch: How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Leaders