Excellence is a prerequisite for great leadership. Cultivating excellence involves valuing it highly, believing in one's own abilities and in empowering others. True leadership is about influence through adding value to others by serving them. Several books emphasize habits of excellence, including developing skills through practice and learning from the best. Leaders must avoid common myths and focus on taking responsibility, discipline, and forgiveness to fail forward through challenges.
3. Definitions
Excellence: outstanding or extremely good.
Prerequisite: a thing that is require as a prior condition for something else to happen or
exist.
Greatness: the quality of being great; eminence or distinction.
Leadership: the action of leading a group of people or an organization; state or position of
being a leader.
7/4/19 3
4. Cultivating
Excellence
Value excellence-
◦ prioritize it ,
◦ take it seriously.
Believe you deserve the best.
Believe that people deserve2 the best also.
Learn from the best
Bench mark against the best.
Put in your best effort.
7/4/19 4
5. Leadership Myths
What a leader is not
…. a scarcity,
…. arrogant,
…. self-interested,
…. the first,
…. followed,
7/4/19 5
6. What a leader is not (cont)
….a manager,
…. abstract,
…. everywhere,
…. an expert,
…. someone else BUT
7/4/19 6
7. What Leadership IS!
What is Leadership?
◦ Leadership is Influence: Nothing More Nothing Less” - Maxwell
How Do You Gain Influence?
◦ ADDING VALUE to the Lives of Others!
How Do You Add Value to Others?
◦ by SERVING THEM!
◦ Encouragement, Motivation, Example, Words, Actions, Deeds,
Listening, Caring
7/4/19 7
14. Excellence; No Excuses!
We are what we repeatedly do; Excellence then is not an act but a habit.”
Earning ability-
◦ most precious financial asset
The 3 percent formula
◦ invest 3 percent of your income into yourself.
Read sixty minutes daily
Listen to educational audio programs always
Attend courses and seminars regularly
7 years or 10 000 hours of hard work,
◦ Required to be the best.
Watching television can make one poor
Talent is highly overrated.
7/4/19 14
15. A Leader; No Excuses
“who takes responsibility for results”,
Disciplined role model,
Self-control,
reliable,
calm,
positive and relaxed , at all times.
7/4/19 15
16. Forgiveness; No Excuses!
is Selfish
is the key to the spiritual kingdom.
determines mentally and emotionally health.
Helps get
◦ over a negative experience quickly
◦ on with their lives.
7/4/19 16
17. Financial Excellence; No Excuses!
financial failure
◦ NOT the low earning
◦ But
◦ lack of self-discipline ,
◦ inability to delay short-term gratification.
7/4/19 17
20. Abilities Needed to Fail Forward
Reject rejection
Faillure as temporary, isolated
Keep expectations realistic
Focus on Strengths:
Bounce Back:
Vary Approaches to Achievement
7/4/19 20
21. BREAKDWON VS BREAK THROUGH
BREAKDOWN BREAKTHROUGH
Comparison Acknowledge the pain.
Rationalization Forgive the person.
Regret Grieve the loss.
Isolation Forgive yourself.
Bitterness Determine to release the event and
move on.
7/4/19 21
22. STOP VS START
STOP START
thinking of only yourself - putting the team first
focusing on only you adding value to others
taking yourself too seriously Failing forward
7/4/19 22
23. To Avoid Risks
Don’t drive an automobile.
◦ 20% of fatal accidents
Don’t travel by air, rail, water.
◦ 16% of all accidents
◦ Don’t walk on the street.
◦ 15% of all accidents
◦ Don’t stay home.
◦ 17% of all accidents
7/4/19 23
25. The Law of the Lid #1
7/4/19 25
`Leadership Ability
Determines a Person’s
Level of Effectiveness.’
Leadership and
excellence learnable!
26. The Law of Priorities #18
Leaders Understand That Activity Is Not Necessarily
Accomplishment
Pareto principle (80/20 rule)
◦ for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of
the causes
Spend 80% of your time with the 20% of your most
important
◦ people
◦ activities
7/4/19 26
27. The Law of Sacrifice #19
A Leader Must Give Up to Go Up
Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're
not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone
else.
Mitch Albom,The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Martin luther king Jnr
John The baptizer
Paul Apostle
7/4/19 27
28. The Law of Explosive Growth #21
Leaders of followers` Leaders of leaders
Need to be needed Need to be succeeded
Develops bottoms 20% Develop top 20%
Focus on weaknesses Focus on strengths
Treat everyone same Treat individuals differently
Spend time with others Invest time in others
Grow by addition Grow by multiplication
Impact only people they touch Impact beyond their own reach
7/4/19 28
To add growth lead followers; to multiple growth lead leaders
29. In Conclusion
You are the leaders of tomorrow.
How far and high you go depends on how much of a leader you are.
How good a leader you will be depends on how much we value
excellence.
The difference between a leader and a follower is how much
knowledge is possessed.
You are in charge of your life.
It all depends on your choices.
7/4/19 29
