Tag: Continuous Improvement

Why Great Leaders Are Different

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Why are great leaders great? Why are they different? Because they are in it for others, not for themselves.

Because they do things differently. So if you want to be different, then you must do your own thing differently.

In his book 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart, Andy Ellis writes, ‘Leadership is helping someone become a better version of themselves.’

‘Find your blind spots by hearing unbelievable things.’

‘Make the smallest and most defensible argument necessary to spur action.’

‘Don’t be irreplaceable; be unclonable.’

‘Create safety to let people warn you of danger.’

‘Keep your hand on the wheel to stay in your lane.’

‘If you don’t pay attention, you’ll miss the gorilla in the room.’

‘Act faster than your adversaries and slower than your allies.’

‘Serenity is knowing that the crap you’re wading through is crap you chose to deal with.’

‘The best available outcomes often involve finding hard compromises between groups you advocate for.’

Source:

Andy Ellis (2023). 1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart

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