Tag: Risks

10 Things All Great Leaders Do Differently

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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Leadership starts with you. If you want to lead, ask yourself this question: ‘Why do I want to lead?’

‘Do I have what it takes to lead?’ If you do not have it, then don’t even go there!

‘As a leader, you are only as good as your last decision.’

‘You simply can’t become a great leader until you are a great communicator.’

‘Your job as leader is to take a 30,000 foot view of your organization and your industry, so that you can spot opportunities that will create real competitive advantage.’

‘Some of the biggest mistakes leaders make are the result of failing to ensure resources are adequate and strategies are feasible.’

‘When it comes to responsibilities, clarity breeds confidence, and confusion breeds disillusion.’

‘Walk your talk, be respectful, and earn the respect that will make your people want to follow you to the ends of the Earth.’

‘Prepare for contingencies ahead of time, so you won’t be blindsided by unexpected consequences of your actions.’

‘People won’t perform until the organization feels like a common unit that everyone has a vested interest in, and often it’s little things that help to make this happen.’

‘Everyone wants results, but the leaders who build a sense of utter and complete focus in their people are the ones who get it done.’

‘Leaders must learn to take all kinds of risks, not just those that involve business strategies.’

Source:

Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves (2012). Leadership 2.0

Turning Rejections Around

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

‘…You are also allowed to be the rejecter and say no when something is posed as a great opportunity but just doesn’t feel right.’- Sam Jay

‘If you care enough about your work, you will be able to get past rejections.’– Alysia Reiner

‘When one door closes, another one opens.’- Alysia Reiner

‘It’s powerful to share experiences of rejection. … By sharing your vulnerability and your hardships, you give other people permission to do so as well. Then collectively, we’re able to kind of grow stronger together.’- Polly Rodriquez

‘After a rejection, you have to stop your own destructive narration, the looping story in which you tell yourself what just happened.’– Rachel Platten

‘Volunteering is one of the best possible ways to overcome a failure. because all of a sudden you’re not focused on what you don’t have. You’are focused on all that you can give.’- Rachel Platten

‘Treat your inner artist like a kindergartener in art class. Be gentle rather than critical.’- Rachel Platten

‘When you are trying to make a change, acknowledge that whatever the pushback, there is often validity in other people’s concerns.’- Marilyn Carlson Nelson

‘You know what would be bizzare? If you never failed and you never got rejected.’– Sarah Koenig

‘When you get rejected, you feel like you’re the only one to whom this has happened- but that’s not true. Failure happens to everyone.’- Angela Duckworth

‘Authenticity is all about staying true to your values, not to one particular communication style.’

Jessica Bacal (2021). The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up At Work