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Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.
The challenge is to always improve, to always get better, even when you are the best. Especially when you are the best.
A collection of talented individuals without personal discipline will ultimately and inevitably fail. Character triumphs over talent.
‘You get nowhere without character. Character is essential to individuals, and their cumulative character is the backbone of your winning team.’
Collective character is vital to success. Focus on getting the culture right; the results will follow.
Performance = Capability + Behaviour
‘Leaders create the right environment for the right behaviours to occur,’ says Eastwood. ‘That’s their primary role.’
Our values decide our character. Our character decides our value.
A culture of asking and re-asking fundamental questions cuts away unhelpful beliefs in
fundamental and foundational values, going so far as to select on character over talent.
winning organization is an environment of personal and professional development, in which each individual takes responsibility and shares ownership.
Leaders connect personal meaning to a higher purpose to create belief and a sense of direction.
‘enabling and empowering the individual by entrusting them with responsibility for the success of the team’.
Leaders create leaders by passing on responsibility, creating ownership, accountability and trust.
This can clearly be translated into business, where the leader sets objectives and parameters, then ‘passes the ball’ to the team, handing over responsibility for implementation and detail. Leading by creating leaders.
Shared responsibility means shared ownership. A sense of inclusion means individuals are
Level 5 leaders, Collins argues, ‘channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. Their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.’ Pass the ball.
Success, he says, is ‘modest improvement, consistently done’.
Excellence is a process of evolution, of cumulative learning, of incremental improvement.
Marginal gains: 100 things done 1 per cent better to deliver cumulative competitive advantage.
Champions Do Extra
‘What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.’
