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Leadership1 Heroic Leadership - Bill Cohen 1.Maintain Absolute Integrity Leadership is a trust.

Keep your word; do the harder right instead of the easier wrong; be principled. 2.Know Your Stuff People dont follow leaders because they are good at office politics; they follow them because they are good at what they do. Learn from every experience. Its what you know and how you use it. 3.Declare Your Expectations What exactly does successful look like? How will you know when you are there? You need to decide on where youre going and then declare it, and promote it in everything you do. Get feedback and adjust your strategy as needed. 4.Show Uncommon Commitment Army Brigadier General Edward Markham explained, A leader must take a bulldog approach to accomplish the mission. When a leader does this, others do the same. 5.Expect Positive Results Winners expect to win. Visualize success. Vincent Lombardi once said, We never lose, but sometimes the clock runs out on us. You can expect positive results and still not get exactly what you want, says Cohen, but, research demonstrates that those who think positive achieve more and get better results than those that dont. 6.Take Care of Your People Take care of your men and they will take care of you, says Brigadier General Philip Bolte. Thomas Noel told Cohen, You are what your people are, no more, and no less. Cohen adds, If you are the leader, youve got to learn to give the needs of those you lead greater weight than you give your personal needs. 7.Put Duty before Self Sometimes the mission must come first, sometimes the people, but both must always come before self. Harry Walters, former Veterans Administration Administrator, looks at it this way, To me, duty before self means inclusion with no secrets. Why should there be any secrets, when the leader puts his own interests last? If you dont put duty before self, you cant create a team environment. 8.Get Out in Front You have to be up front where the action is. General Harry Aderholt said, Theres no secret about leadership. Youve got to know your people, live with them, and be seen always out front. Reality-Based Leaders Manifesto - Cy Wakeman 1. Refuse to argue with reality 2. Greet change with a simple Good to know; defense is an act of war 3. Depersonalize feedbackwhatever the source 4. Let go of our need for love, approval, and appreciation at work so we can focus on the goals of our organization and not on satisfying our egos 5. Are very careful about what we think we know for sure 6. Ask ourselves, What is the next right thing I can do to add the most value? 7. Ask others, How can I help? instead of judging and blaming 8. Work to find the opportunity in every challenge 9. Work harder at being happy than at being right 10. Work with the willing 11. Lead first, manage second 12. Value action over opinion

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Ten Truths about Leadership - James Kouzes and Barry Posner Truth #1 You Make a Difference. Before you lead you have to believe that you can have a positive impact on others. When you believe you can make a difference, you position yourself to hear the call to lead. Truth #2 Credibility Is the Foundation of Leadership. If people dont believe in you, they wont willingly follow you. You must do what you say you are going to do. This means being so clear about your beliefs that you can live them every day. Truth #3 Values Drive Commitment. You need to know what you believe in because you can only fully commit to the organization or cause when there is a good fit between what you value and the organization values. This is true too, for the people you lead. Truth #4 Focusing on the Future Sets Leaders Apart. You have to be forward looking; its the quality that most differentiates leaders from individual contributors. You need to spend time reflecting on the future. Big dreams that resonate with others inspire and energize. Truth #5 You Cant Do It Alone. Leadership is a team sport, and you need to engage others in the cause. You need to enable others to be even better than they already are. Truth #6 Trust Rules. To enlist others, you need trust. Build mutual trust; you must trust others too. Truth #7 Challenge Is the Crucible of Greatness. Great achievements dont happen when you keep things the same. Change invariably involves challenge, and challenge tests you. It introduces you to yourself. It brings you face-to-face with your level of commitment, your grittiness, and your values. It reveals your mindset about change. Truth #8 You Either Lead by Example or You Dont Lead at All. You have to go first as a leader. Thats what it takes to get others to follow your lead. Truth #9 The Best Leaders Are the Best Learners. Learning is the master skill of leadership. Leaders are constant improvement fanatics. Truth #10 Leadership Is an Affair of the Heart. Leaders love what theyre doing and those they lead. Leaders make others feel great themselves and are gracious in showing their appreciation. Pyramid Of Success - John Wooden 1. Be true to yourself. 2. Help others. 3. Make each day your masterpiece 4. Drink deeply from good books, especially the Good Book. 5. Make friendship a fine art. 6. Build a shelter for a rainy day. 7. Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings each day. Mark Twain on Leadership On Encouragement: I can live for two months on a good compliment. On Success: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Success is a journey, not a destination. It requires constant effort, vigilance and re-evaluation. The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. On Courage: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. On Vision: You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. On Execution: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. On Ethics: Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. I am different from [George] Washington; I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. On Communication: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. If you have nothing to say, say nothing. Lead Your Boss: The Subtle Art of Managing Up - John Baldoni Thinking like a boss, without stealing the bosss spotlight, and establishing trust with peers. Turning ideas into action by thinking critically (and strategically), reframing opportunities, and challenging conventions. Let others create the how by giving the team direction, setting clear expectations for behavior and performance, and then stepping back and letting team members get things done. Breaking down the doors, beginning with mastering the principles and means of influence and then balancing the need to look out with the need to lead up. Working the system with attention to managing the details, determining priorities, and using organizational politics to everyones advantage. Demonstrating resilience by acknowledging failure, knowing when to give in without giving up, exerting and exuding strength, and excelling at turning setbacks into comebacks. Preparing others to lead by recognizing achievement, investing in talent (and differentiating talent from skill), and making leadership personal. Leading with passion Yes, character and conviction matter! The First 90 Days - Michael Watkins Here are the warning signs:

An overt zeal for prestige, power and wealth. A manager's tendency to put his or her own success ahead of the company's. A reputation for shameless self-promotion. Trumpeting their successes while quickly distancing themselves from setback. A proclivity for developing grandiose strategies with little thought toward their implementation. A fondness for rules and numbers that overshadows or ignores a broader vision. A reputation for implementing major strategic changes unilaterally or for forcing programs down the throats of reluctant managers. An impulsive, flippant decision-making style. A penchant for inconsiderate acts. A love of monologues coupled with poor listening skills. A tendency to display contempt for the ideas of others. A history of emphasizing activity, like hours worked or meetings attended, over accomplishment. A career marked by numerous misunderstandings. There are two sides to every story, but frequent interpersonal problems shouldn't be overlooked. A superb ability to compartmentalize and/or rationalize. Some executives have learned to separate, in their own minds, their bad behavior from their better qualities, so that their misdeeds don't diminish their opinions of themselves.

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