Tag: Success

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

Managing Your Strengths

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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We all have strengths and weaknesses. Success comes from strengths. Failure, on the other hand, comes from doing what we are not good at.

If you wan to succeed in your life, use your strengths, not your weaknesses, to get what you want.

To manage your strengths, according to Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser, ‘… is to accept them. If you literally don’t know your own strengths, you have no way to calibrate or modulate it.’

‘… to stop overplaying your strengths does not mean … to stop using it. It means using the strength more selectively.’

‘overusing one’s strength not only corrupts the strength, but it begets weakness in yet another way.’

‘Leaders who develop versatility don’t lose their range, they embrace it.’

‘Versatility requires knowing when a certain approach is appropriate and when it is not.’

‘You best chance of making change stick is to do both the outer work and the inner work of improving.’

‘… an iterative cycle of reflection and action is required to achieve lasting change: insight begets action begets insight begets action.’

‘Changing yourself is an admirable exercise in self-control. But it is wise to also employ counterweights- process or people- to aid your efforts.’

‘… to accept yourself is to look at yourself as if you are somebody else.’

‘To accept yourself is to be courageously objective about yourself, inside and out.’

Source:

Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser (2013). Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem.