Tag: Character

‘Leading With Wisdom’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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To lead other people with wisdom is to love them for who they are. It is to lift them up, not bring them down.

Wisdom says, ‘I see you. You matter. Your work matters. You are not a machine. You are a human being.’

In the writings of Mark Strom, ‘The wisdom traditions reflect life as it was experienced, not as moralist might claim it should be. Wisdom is therefore always contextual.’

‘Wisdom view life as a whole- a vast complex tapestry. It urges us to watch, to listen, to read, to discern, and to store up insights we can draw from later.’

‘Our lives are shaped by words.’

‘If character is who we are when no one can see us, then integrity is being the same person no matter who we are with or where we are.’

‘Leadership is not about getting the same group of people to do the same thing in the ways in a stable context.’

‘To lead with wisdom is to enable partnership.’

‘Truth yields clarity. Beauty yields elegance. Goodness yields strength of character and unity-in-diversity yields heart.’

‘Every challenge urges us to learn and to change.’

‘Leading well makes us vulnerable.’

‘Our deepest learning is sometimes hammered out on our worst leading.’

Source:

Mark Strom (2014). Leading with Wisdom: How Wisdom Transforms Good leaders Into Great Leaders

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