Category: Leadership

How Authentic Leaders Lead

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

We need great leaders. We need them because they know how to lead people. Above all, they know how to lead themselves.

According to Gareth Chick, ‘A leader takes an community outside its collective comfort zone, and makes the journey exciting, not frightening.’

Real leaders ask real, tough questions. They ‘… ask themselves one overriding question when posed a problem by another person- ‘What does this person need from me right here, right now?’ And they make things happpen. They are authentic. When they say something, they don’t play with what they say they will do.

And they are not afraid to say, I don’t know what you are talking about.’ They are not afraid to admit what they don’t know.

Because they know that when you admit what you do not know, you are willing to learn.

They ‘subordinate themselves to the cause and to the responsibility they’ve accepted– not in a way that excludes or overrides family, friends or external interests, but in a way that overrides their ego and immediate self-interest.’

‘Authentic leaders see possibilities that others do not see, or do not want to see, and have a knowing and a belief that is seemingly unshakeable.’

‘Authentic leaders ask people to things and achieve things that they do not know how to do themselves; that may even seem impossible or ‘beyond reason.’

‘Authentic leaders constantly hector people with the purpose and the vision and are overt and passionate living examples of the values.’

‘Authentic leaders touch people emotionally, sharing intimate moments of joy and elation as they inspire others to go beyond their wildest dreams of performance.’

‘Authentic leaders put themselves forward as the public face and voice of the mission and the message, and allow themselves to be the embodiment, at times the icon if appropriate, of the cause.’

They are not leading to make themselves bigger than others. They are leading to make the world a better place.

If you want to lead, you must be in it for others, not for yourself.

As always, you are more, not less!

Source:

Gareth Chick (2019). And The Leader Is … : Transforming Cultures with CEQ

Why Wise Leaders Succeed, According To John W. Foreman

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management

If you are in a leadership position, if you really apply these quotes from Foreman, you will succeed.

‘Having a team of A players means firing B players more than it means hiring A players.’- John W. Foreman

‘Run a blameless culture so that people will take more risks.

Run a high-accountability culture so that people will make more impact.’- John W. Foreman

‘Focus on the inputs, and the outputs will follow.’

But you get what you measure, not necessarily the output that follows from it.’- John W. Foreman

‘Move fast and break things except when you can’t. And then move slow and fix things. There’s probably a time when you should just go somewhere between fast and slow too …’ – John W. Foreman

‘In a world of specialist, the generalist is king. Except when you need to do one thing super well, then they kind of suck. So I guess specialists are kings too.’- John W. Foreman

‘Let those closest to the customer have the authority to make a decision. Except when your customer might not be representative of where the market or your company is headed. Then closeness to the current customer might limit your future options.’- John W. Foreman

‘If you want to do something right, do it right. Except when someone else can do it more ‘right’ than you; then just buy that shit.’- John W. Foreman

‘Do not confuse stubborness with courage. Do not confuse overconfidence with preternatural correctness.’- John W. Foreman

‘Leaders are not magicians; their power lies not in their mystique but in the quality of their decisions.’- John W. Foreman

‘Transparency costs you nothing.’– John W. Foreman

‘Values are beliefs that motivate choosing a particular option over another when making a decision.’- John W. Foreman

‘Company culture consists of the shared, held values and resulting behaviors of the company.’- John W. Foreman

‘Great leaders check on the behaviors their values are creating regularly.’- John W. Foreman

‘Bad decision-makers need to be removed from making important decisions as quickly as possible.’- John W. Foreman

‘Spend your time on your best leaders, not coaching your underperformers.’- John W. Foreman