In Leadership, Dreams Are The Stuff That Great Results Are Made
Of
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Summary: The importance of motivation in leadership cannot be
denied. But most leaders overlook a critical component of
motivation, the human dream. The article describes what dreams
really mean in the realm of leadership.
In Leadership, Dreams Are The Stuff That Great Results Are Made
Of by Brent Filson
Leadership is motivational or it's stumbling in the dark. The
best leaders don't order people to do a job, the best leaders
motivate people to want to do the job.
The trouble is the vast majority of leaders don't delve into the
deep aspects of human motivation and so are unable to motivate
people effectively.
Drill down through goals and aims and aspirations and ambitions
and you hit the bedrock of motivation, the dream. Many leaders
fail to take it into account.
Dreams are not goals and aims. Goals are the results toward
which efforts are directed. The realization of a dream might
contain goals, which can be stepping stones on the way to the
attaining dreams. But the attainment of a goal does not
necessarily result in the attainment of a dream.
For instance, Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a goal."
Or "I have an aim." The power of that speech was in the "I have
a dream".
Dreams are not aspirations and ambitions. Aspirations and
ambitions are strong desires to achieve something. King didn't
say he had an aspiration or ambition that " ....one day this
nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: