Happy Monday!
This week’s book is
This book redefines what it means to be a leader. It was recommended by someone special to me and it was worth its weight.
Estimated reading time: 1 minute, 52 seconds.
Here’s my top 10 takeaways:
1. Influence
When you identify meeting the legitimate needs of others you can influence them.
The leader is someone who identifies and satisfies those needs and removes all obstacles so that they can serve the customer.
To be the first, you have to serve.
2. Connection
The key to leadership is to carry out assigned tasks by fostering human relationships.
Truly great leaders possess the art of building relationships that work.
3. Service
Leadership has little to do with style (personality) and everything to do with substance (character).
Authority is founded on service and sacrifice.
4. Progress
Every few months you should be able to say, "I'm not where I want to be, but I'm better than I was."
Either you are green and growing, or you are ripe and rotting.
5. What Matters
Things are managed, people are led.
Money is fourth or fifth on the list of what people expect from your company.
Being treated with dignity and respect, being able to contribute to the success of the company, feeling part of it, always appear above money.
6. Agency
I can't always control my feelings towards others, but what I can control is my behavior towards others.
Love is not what one feels for others, it is rather how one behaves with others.
7. Know Thyself
Humility is nothing more than the true knowledge of yourself and your limitations.
Those who see themselves as they really are in truth can only be humble.
8. Character
Our true character as a leader is revealed when we have to give our best for those we don't like, when we find ourselves at a crossroads and have to love people we don't exactly like.
That's when we discover to what extent we are committed; that's when we discover what kind of leader we really are.
9. Action
What we believe or what we think, in the end is not important.
The only thing that really matters is what we do.
10. Ownership
When things go well, give others the credit.
When things go wrong, own that mistake.
“When you were born you cried and the world was filled with joy. Live your life so that when you die the world cries and you are filled with joy.”
— James C. Hunter
Until next week,
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