The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.
Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.
The myth of management is that your personal values are irrelevant or inappropriate at work.
Imagine a world where what you say synchs up, not sinks down.
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.
Profitability. Growth. Quality. Exceeding customer expectations. These are not examples of values. These are examples of corporate strategies being sold to you as values.
Your company is its own competition and can deliver itself debilitating blows the competition only dreams of.
Why live my personal values at work? This is an excellent question to ask. If your attorneys are planning an insanity defense.
Values are deeply held personal beliefs that form your own priority code for living.
Your values are your essence: an undistorted mirror showing you at your pure, attractive best.
What first separates a leader from a normal human being? A leader knows who they are as a human being.
Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.
The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.
There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.
Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.
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