Leadership is not an accident; it is the by-product of consistent results. You can not divorce a leader from the results that he or she consistently produces. Ultimately, the only thing that establishes the credibility of a leader is results, results and results alone. This often sounds cruel to many who struggle with the generation …
Leadership cannot exist without expectations from followers. Managing and handling people’s expectations is one of the core responsibilities of a leader. People thrive on promises; the leader often has to make them for people to be inspired to follow. Promise too little, and the people believe they have little stake in following you. On the …
OPINIONS ARE CHEAP. What it takes to be a leader is SOUND CONVICTIONS. Don’t tell me what you think or feel. Don’t even tell me what you know. Tell me what you have proven. All it takes to have an opinion is to think it, but what it takes to have convictions is to prove …
One reason why I personally grew disillusioned with the success motivation movement that swept through my world recently, was that after reading a huge number of their resources, all of them began to sound alike, recommending the same shallow platitudes for the transformation of my life. I found that unacceptable. The second gap I noticed …
The way our universe is designed, every change of level requires the consumption of resources. Therefore, the inability to muster the resources needed for a change of level can condemn one to a particular level of operation for eternity. This ability to generate needed resources is one of the crucial tests of a leader’s competence. …
All prizes do come with prices. We have been trying to put our fingers on why people quit. Another reason is that we have a tendency to underestimate what it takes to attain our objectives until those costs are staring us in the face. One author, Rick Warren, rightly named this phenomenon ‘Uneducated Enthusiasm ‘ …
Just about anyone can start whatsoever. What separates the men from the boys is the capacity to stay the course and finish strong.
Opinions may count, but only convictions can make you count. Do not mistake opinions for convictions. Nothing is as common in our social media-driven culture, as human opinions. Today, more than at any other time in the history of man, the media to disseminate vast arrays of divergent human opinions are at the fingertips of …