Real Leaders Don’t Play With Their People

‘Leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren’t willing to do- even though they might not like doing them either.’

‘It is impossible to build a tribute to success on a foundation of excuses.’

‘Leadership is about having unshakeable faith in your vision and unrelenting confidence in your power to make positive change happen.’

‘Small little leadership acts really will compound into breathtaking consequences.’

‘Without innovation, life is death.’

‘Small daily improvements-over time- lead to stunning results.’

‘Daily ripples of excellence- over time- become a tsunami of success.’

‘The best leaders never leave the site of a good idea without doing something- no matter how small- to breathe some life into it.’

‘When you go to your limits, your limits will expand.’

‘You can never know how high you can climb if you don’t even try.’

‘Scared gets you nowhere.’

Source:

Robin Sharma (2010). The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life

How To Stay Fresh And Relevant

In order to stay fresh and relevant, innovation has to be constant.’

Leading innovation is about leading people into and through change.’

To become an innovator, you don’t need to disrupt your whole industry. You just need to focus on building relationships with your key customers and empower your team to find innovative ways to serve them better.’

By empowering your workers to try a different approach, new solutions can be discovered, and that’s what leads to growth.’

Every innovation doesn’t have to be disruptive. The world needs both disruptive and adaptive change/innovation.’

When you develop a culture within your team that encourages open communication and empowers people to come up with new ways of doing things, you’re encouraging agility, which results in innovation.’

If we stay in our comfort zone, we will not grow as leaders.’

Embracing change means that people need to be convinced that the change has value and is worth embracing. To do this, leaders should focus much on the people side of change as they do on the logistical side of it.’

No matter what is happening around us, we can only lead on the day we are leading.’

You have to put your attention to where you want to go, not where you don’t want to go.’

What do you need more of or less of?’

Source:

Dale Carnegie & Associates. Lead! How to Build a High-Performing Team