Tag: Leadership Values

What Makes Great Leaders

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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‘Leaders envision the future by imagining exciting and ennobling possibilities.’

‘People want to follow those who can see beyond today’s difficulties and imagine a brighter tomorrow.’

‘Leaders are pioneers willing to step out into the unknown.’

‘Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.’

‘Leadership is something you experience in an interaction with another human being.’

‘Leaders are their organization’s ambassadors of shared values.’-

James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner

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‘Leading others begins with leading yourself and you can’t do that until you’re able to answer that fundamental question about who you are.’

‘Leadership is not merely about your values. It’s also about the values of your constituents.’

‘Conversations about values … enable people to find more meaning in their work.’

‘Being an exemplary leader requires you to live the values.’

‘As a leader, you teach, coach, and guide others to align their actions with the shared values because you’re held accountable for their actions, too, not just your own.’

Source:

James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner (2017). The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations

RecruitTheBest Daily Digest- ‘Entrepreneurial Leadership’ In Action

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Innovation Management, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

‘Realise you will need different operating systems for different tasks as you move from manager to leader. Be flexible and patient with yourself as you try on different lenses.’

‘Don’t let your brand limit you to the familiar. Understand your meta brand and its possibilities.’

‘Every entrepreneurial leader needs a plan to help him or her escape the strong gravitational pull of work.’

‘Set boundaries on your work to make room for nonwork interests and communities.’

‘Work hard to articulate a clear purpose, a desired end result, what winning looks like.’

‘Break down your mission into a limited number of goals that can be measured by meaningful, qualified, and time-bound deliverables.’

‘Ensure your goals align with your values and with the actions necessary to achieve them.’

‘Make sure everyone in your organization can recite its top three goals.’

‘Correct misalignments unless they are over values. When values aren’t aligned, someone must leave the organization.’

‘Invest in culture by rewarding those who behave consistently with it and coaching or removing those who violate it.’

‘Teams succeed and fail together.’

‘Trust is enhanced by delivering on promises.’

Source:

Joel Peterson (2020). Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff