Notes from Leadership Mastery

Here are some notes from this phenomenal Book:

 

• The only way to differentiate yourself and your business is to become exceptionally skilled at leading and persuading others.
• A couple of simple tests that you can make to prove yourself how easy it is to make people like you instantly:
• Starting tomorrow morning, you smile at the first five people you see at work every day for a week. A good, broad, genuine smile and a hearty good morning.
• Pick out just one person every day for a week, one person who has never meant very much to you, and become genuinely interested in him/her and show that you are interested in him/her with a smile and some friendly comment.
• If you want to be liked instantly, do as the puppy does: Become genuinely interested in other people and show it.
• Principles will never change; it is how they are applied that will change.
• In the past, an order from the boss may have given the employee enough want.  Today leaders must create that want by engaging others in the mission with same goals but by different processes.
• Leadership, like any other skill, is not something you are born with; it must be learned.
• Leadership is no longer for the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the General, the Boss or the Mom and Dad.  Leadership is available to each and every one of us at every level or Organization, be that Society, Business, Government or Family.
• Keep your mind Open to Change all the time.  Welcome it.  Court it  -  Dale Carnegie
• In today’s world, the quality of leadership is both respected and revered, but it is also subtly devalued.  We celebrate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, great leaders of the past, yet we are deeply suspicious of those who occupy leadership positions in the present day.  Perhaps it is because we know too much about them in our present media-dominated environment.
• We usually evaluate leaders in terms of how much they do, not how they transition to doing less.  There is a lesson here: What Leaders mean to us changes with time just as the leaders themselves change.
• Leadership masters goes a step further by transforming followers into other Leaders.  For true leadership masters, this process includes not just everyone in an Organization, but literally everyone they meet.
• It requires personal qualities beyond traditional leadership virtues: Qualities like toughness and Decision-making ability, Flexibility, Innovation and the ability to Accommodate sudden change.
• The purpose of Leadership Mastery is not to show you how to order people around, or to manipulate them with fear of failure or promise of reward.  Instead you will focus on giving people the tools to lead themselves in the direction of what they do best

Comments

[Meena]

The biggest quality a leader must have is the ability to build trust..Building trust is paramount. A leader must also lead by example..The problem with most leaders today is the mismatch we see between their audio(what they say) and video (what they do).