12. According to Jack Welch, the CEO of all CEOS…
Six Rules for Leadership:
#1: Control your destiny; or someone else will
#2: Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were
#3: Be candid with everyone
#4: Don’t manage; lead
#5: Change before you have to
#6: If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t
compete
15. 80% of traffic jams
20% of roads
80% of beer consumed
20% of drinkers
80% of participation
20% of students
80% of the time
20% of clothes worn
80% of profits 20% of customers
Loneliness is not a leadership or positional issue, it is a personality issue.
Avoid positional thinking.
Only leaders who have followed well know how to lead others well.
Ground breakers take you into an area you haven’t been before
Heart breakers are when you realize things are going very well
Cloud breakers let you soar like you’ve never soared before
Chart breakers take you beyond your expectations
Experience is no teacher unless you learn from it. Focus not on what happens to you but on what happens in you during the process of the experience.
Know Yourself – this is a reality issue. Know what you do well and what you don’t do well. Be prepared to be criticized – you cannot impart what you do not possess.
Change Yourself – this is a responsibility issue. Leaders change first. Maintain the right attitude when criticized by not being defensive, looking for the grain of truth, making the necessary changes and taking the high road.
Forget Yourself – this is a security issue. Stop focusing on yourself. No one else is paying much attention to you. We all need grace and forgiveness
Passion separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. Passion enables you to:
Believe things you would not have believed
Feel think you would not have felt
Attempt things you would not attempted
Accomplish things you would not have accomplished
Met people you would not have met
Motivate people you would not have motivated
Lead people you would not have led
Listening is the best way to learn
Listening can keep problems from escalating
Listening can improve the organization
Q1 – all leaders have two common characteristics – first they are going somewhere and second, they are able to persuade people to follow
Q2 – Are the people willing to make a change for the sake of progress
Q3 – The best leaders help people with more than their jobs, they help with their lives
Q4 – Leadership is meant to lift others and help others succeed
Time-Management is an oxymoron – you cannot manage time – you have no control over it
See page 38-39 of Leadership Gold Facilitator Guide for Calculation example.
All great leaders invest themselves in a personal growth plan
To progress as a leader is to transition from being a person of answers to a person of lessons.
Leaders have to be willing to do things others are unwilling to do. They have to put themselves on the line.
Difficult times faced by leaders begins within them, not with others.
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but it is necessary if a leader wants to maintain integrity and remain effective.
People leave because they feel devalued by their leader, the leader is untrustworthy, the leader is incompetent, the leader is insecure
Meetings usually fail because the leader doesn’t have a clear agenda and/or the attendees in the meeting have their own agenda.
Good planning always costs less than good reacting.
If you climb without connecting you may gain authority but you won’t have many friends
If you connect well but possess little desire to climb, you may end up with many friends but not much authority to accomplish anything
Climbing and Connecting are not an either/or but a both/and.
Some people see questions as a sign of ignorance. Leaders see them as a sign of engagement, curiosity, and the desire to improve.