Following Successful Leadership Strategies
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Management Consultant Suzanne Howard believes that leaders need
not live a stressful life. So do I.
To help you maximize your leadership potential, here is a
ten-point strategy she suggests:
* 1. Success: Most leaders have a sense of purpose, a
mission that sets their standards for success. Develop and
follow your own high standards.
* 2. Knowledge: Start with knowing yourself. Maximize
your strengths and minimize your weaknesses.
* 3. Information: A manager has to know how to do
something; a leader has to know why in order to do it.
* 4. Love: Begin by loving yourself. It is a
prerequisite for loving others.
* 5. Learning: Leaders turn their errors and failures
into learning experiences that contribute to their future
successes.
* 6. Persistence: Persistence means overcoming your fear
of failure and realizing that no one succeeds on their first try
every time.
* 7. Opportunity: "The best way to miss success is to
miss the opportunity", so says Mr. Willoughby Lewis, an
insurance adjuster and good friend.
* 8. Winning: Part of this is an attitude or perception.
Winners concentrate on their strengths and make things happen;
losers let things happen.
* 9. Enthusiasm: The secret to having enthusiasm is
working at a job you like. You can always learn the technical
skills to work at a number of jobs, but when you work at a job
you like your enthusiasm naturally shows through.
* 10. Renewal: Take time to be good to yourself. Have
fun. Go shopping. Take a trip. Reward yourself. These are
different ways to renew your vitality, your enthusiasm, and your
focus.
Remember: When you maximize your potential, everyone
wins. When you don't, we all lose.