What I Learned About Leadership

1. The Lessons I Learned About
Leadership

2. • for a leader – or anyone else who wants to succeed at
hiring and retaining the very best talent – listening is a
crucial skill. Because when you tune the wrong people
(talent) and information out, you’re depriving yourself
of priceless tools that will enable you to take your
career, and life, to new levels of workplace fulfillment,
reward and fun.
• To reach our full potential, we must master the art of
listening.Which means awareness. Which means
thinking about what we hear. Which means applying it,
if possible, to the leadership challenges at hand.

3. • As a leader, you must always have a strategy for
change. Unfortunately, those that don’t are the ones
that increase the risk factor for the organization and
the people they lead. Yes, a change management
strategy is the ultimate form of leadership
accountability, because you must think carefully about
every move you make and the required talent,
resources and investments it will take. A change
management strategy forces you to think critically
about what you need to do as a leader to minimize risk
and maximize reward. How you execute this strategy
may ultimately define your leadership legacy.

4. • Leaders are faced with adversity almost every day. How
you confront it and lead through it are defining moments in
your career. Adversity management primarily reveals you.
• In many ways, adversity is subjective. What others might
see as a big problem – you might see as a situation that is
easily manageable. For example, when you encounter an
adverse circumstance, up close it can appear
insurmountable. However, when you step back and view it
with wide-angle vision, you will begin to see the adverse
circumstance with greater clarity and
understanding. When you see adversity through a lens of
opportunity, it gives you a leg-up and a powerful
competitive advantage.

5. • Leadership is about having the best interests
of others at all times. It’s about sharing the
harvest of the momentum that you are
building with others. Leaders must recognize
that it is their responsibility to inspire and
unite, and in doing so they expand their
influence through others.

6. • The people you decide to associate yourself
with greatly influence your intentions, the
decisions you make, and what will ultimately
shape your leadership brand.