How To Build Strong Leaders

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‘Leaders achieve their results through the results of others.’

Strong leaders know who they are. They get better by challenging themselves.

They pay attention to what they are doing, how they are leading their people, and where they are going.

They get better every day. They get better by putting themselves out there.

So if you want to improve yourself, then you must get out of your comfort zone.

‘Trust is the new currency of work.’

According to Alain Hunkins, ‘Self-awareness is the skill that enables you to transform unconscious incompetence or competence into conscious competence.’

‘You cannot become excellent at anything if you’re oblivious as to why and how you do it.’

‘Leaders who are committed to developing themselves keep putting themselves in situations outside of their comfort zone.’

‘No longer are employees seen as mindless worker bees. Now, leaders need to be more involved and nurture and develop the whole person that comes attached to the pair of hands.’

‘Leading through fear and threats suffocates good decision-making and keeps teams mired in mediocrity.’

‘For sustainable success in the long term, trust is a must.’

‘Working together is what allowed small tribes of our paleolithic ancestors to survive and ultimately thrive.’

Commitment is built from the ground up, one relationship at a time.’

‘Empathic leaders pick up on cues that tip the balance of insight in their favor.’

‘The choices we make are only as good as the knowledge we have when we make them.’

Source:

Alain Hunkins (2020). Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself

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‘The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is- not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think for himself.’- George MacDonald

Do your own thinking. If you are not growing, it is because you are not doing your own thinking.

If you have not started doing your own thinking, if you have not started facing your own life, if you are still waiting for others to tell you what to do, how to live your life, what to do with your income, or where to take your next vacation, you are not thinking for yourself; other people are doing your thinking for you; you are not living for yourself; you are living for others.

If you are not where you want to be, maybe you are not thinking enough. Maybe you are hiding your greatness.

To get your promotion, you must do your own thinking. That is what great leaders do. They do their own thinking. They don’t wait for people to tell them how to think.

Thinking is the best thing to do for yourself. It is the gateway to your inner self. If you want to bring out the best in yourself, if you want to wake yourself up, you must do your own thinking.

Do not be scared to think. If you do not know what to think about, just think about when you were a little child. Maybe that will take you back to when you were not afraid to try different things.

Do it for you. Do not be scared of what is going to come out. Whatever comes out, you have what it takes to deal with it.

Deal with it. If you don’t deal with your secrets, they are going to deal with you. When they do, you are not going to be happy with yourself.

If you don’t think for yourself, if you do not do what you are supposed to do to get to where you want to be, life will not let you go unpunished.

If you don’t want life to deal with you, you must do your own thinking. When you do, you get bigger. And your world gets bigger.