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You Are A Leader!
Posted on October 18th, 2009 10 comments
Some people say, but I’m not in a leadership role. I say, yes you are. Makes no difference where you are in life or what your vocation is, you are a leader. I promise you this, if you adjust your thinking and apply the leadership insights and fundamentals you will be amazed at the positive changes it brings to your life and business. Here are just three important fundamentals.
Leaders Connect With People.
True leaders know the people that work for them. They share in their joy and in their pain or sadness. A leader knows about their people first hand and not by rumors or gossip. A true leader is engaged in the process of training a new employee or client. A true leader cares about people! If you can’t make that connection with people you need to learn how.
Example- I drive about 30 miles to my dry cleaners because they make that personal connection with me. I could find the cleaners that was closer and could be cheaper, but I don’t care. I drive the extra miles because; they go the extra mile when serving me.
Leaders Have Discipline.
“The price of discipline is always less than the price of regret.” Nino Quibien.
Leaders know this to be true. Leaders hold themselves to a higher standard. Leaders enjoy life and people by living in that disciplined zone.
Leadership is about doing what is right and no doing what is easy. Leaders know it’s not easy to deal with difficult problems, but they do it. It may not be easy to work on you and commit to growing and stretching yourself, but leaders do it.
At times it may be hard to give and see others get the credit and not receive it yourself, but leaders do it.
Leaders Like To Learn.
Don’t make the mistake of falling in love with you. Always fall in love with loving to learn and grow.
We need to be leaders not only in our own businesses. We need to be leaders in our families, schools, jobs and in life.
*Connect With People
*Go The Extra Mile
*Have Discipline
You Are A Leader!
Lane Resources Inc. 2009
Lynn Lane
10 responses to “You Are A Leader!”
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Hi Lynn,
I enjoyed your take on this and agree wholeheartedly. Leadership is a quality from within and when it is finally recognised a new person is born.
Keri Eagan
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Hi Lynn,
I truly agree with you on this one. Interesting enough, we are always a model and mentor for others. Others are always watching us. What kind of model do we want to be? One which helps them? Or not?
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
Single Baby Boomer Dating Success Expert
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Everone isa leader in manyaspects indeed.
As a apretn, we also “Lead by example”. Childrenwatch our behavior, verbal or non-verbal much closer than we thought.
John Ho
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Discipline in leadership is so important. You truly are setting the stage for how things get done
Jose Escalante
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Lynn,
One of the tragedies of modern day America is how few people aspire to be in a leadership role. Every adult should be willing and able to step into a leadership role if for no other reason then they are natural leaders of younger people.
There seems to be a distaste for responsibility and maturity amongst American adults of both sexes, a trend I hope ends soon.
As usual I loved your post. Congrats on your Google rankings.
Steve Chambers, Sale Trainer Speaker
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I really enjoyed this Lynn.
I love this quote: “The price of discipline is always less than the price of regret.” Nino Quibien.
Says it all.
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Lynn – Great list of attributes of a leader.
Pam
Expert Houston Retirement Planning & Wealth Management Services
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Leadership often comes from Mastery of a subject. Most people are afraid to lead because they lack confidence in their ability.
Why should anyone listen to me? I don’t know any more than they do…
But if everyone feels this way, then in a crisis there is no action taken. Everyone is waiting for the other person to step up…
Seize the Day,
RobSimple Survival Tips For Disasters and Emergencies
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Connecting with people, discipline, and perpetual learning are 3 indispensable keys to success.
Health, Fitness for Working People — Darryl Pace
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I think all the time that I am not a leader, but then I realized the other night as I was babysitting four little boys under the age of 8, that I indeed was a leader, at least while I was babysitting. If I wasn’t, then who was – the baby? Guess I am a leader!
Lisa McLellan
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Keri Eagan October 18th, 2009 at 18:01