Extracting some good points from a book titled "Be Inspired By Great Leaders" written by Alison Price and David Price. Both authors have great experiences in managing and coaching leaders as well as CEOs in prestigious organization.
A- ASPIRATION
Never tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. -Author Unknown
B-BACKING
If you can dream it, you can do it. - Walt Disney
C- COMPELLING COMMUNICATION
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
D- DECIDE YOUR STRATEGY
The leader is the organization's top strategist systematically envisioning the future and specifically mapping out how to get there. - Bill Hybells
E- EXECUTE
Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. - Barbara Sher
F- FORMING A TEAM
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. - Henry Ford
G- GUIDING VALUES
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are. - Roy Disney
H- HELP UNDERPERFORMERS
A leader's role is to raise people's aspiration for what they can become and to release their energies so that they will try to get there. - David Gergen
I- INSPIRE TOP PERFORMANCE
A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the block, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realising that all along they are being directed from behind.
- Nelson Mandela
J- JOYFUL WORKING
If you have fun at what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. Make work like play and play like hell. - Norman Brinker
K- KEEP STAKEHOLDERS ONSIDE
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. - Sun Tzu
L- LISTEN (WITH INTENT)
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. - Stephen Covey
M- MOTIVATION
Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running. - Zig Ziglar
N- NO MORE NEGATIVITY
Culture eats strategy for breakfast. - Peter Drucker
O- OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE
A leader takes people where they want to go, A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter
P- PROGRESSING CHANGE
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Q- QUALITIES FOR LEADERSHIP
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. - Charles M. Schwab
R- RESPECT AND INTEGRITY
The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. Without it no real success is possible.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
S- SET AN EXAMPLE
Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi
T- TIMES CHANGE
The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
U- UNITING DIVIDED PEOPLE
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. - Nelson Mandela
V- VERY STRESSED
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. - Thomas Jefferson
W- WRONG AND RIGHT DIRECTION
The work in this room is final. The decisions are final.
The team in this room must be prepared not only to make the decisions but to live with the results that occur. - Gene Kranz
X- eXit
There's a trick to the graceful exit. It begins with the vision to recognise when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaning what's over without denying its validity of its past importance in our lives. - Ellen Goodman
Y- YOUR SUCCESSOR
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers. - Ralph Nader
Z- ZEAL (Passion)
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. - Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch
No comments:
Post a Comment