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February 5 - February 19, 2019
People need to learn leadership to be successful.
To go forward, we need to move faster. And as leaders, we need to stay ahead, we need to see more than others, and we need to see before others.
The more nimble, adaptable, and flexible we are, the more quickly we can move and change.
What is a leadershift? It is an ability and willingness to make a leadership change that will positively enhance organizational and personal growth.
LEADERSHIFTING IS THE ABILITY AND WILLINGNESS TO MAKE A LEADERSHIP CHANGE THAT WILL POSITIVELY ENHANCE ORGANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH.
Adaptable leaders who make leadershifts lean into uncertainty and deal with it head on.
If you want to be successful as a leader, you need to learn to become comfortable with uncertainty and make shifts continually.
every advance you make as a leader will require a leadershift that changes the way you think, act, and lead.
seven things you must do to leadershift successfully. Embrace these practices daily, and you will be ready to face every leadershift situation with flexibility and confidence.
We have to embrace change every day. We must be willing to let go of what worked yesterday and learn new ways of seeing, doing, and leading.
People may honor you for what you did yesterday, but they respect you for what you’re doing now.
As a leader you must be able to recognize the right timing of leadershift moments.
Good timing enables leaders to seize the moment and gain the victory for their team. That sense of timing is especially important when leadershifting.
when the leader sees the bandwagon, it’s too late to lead.
As long as I’m growing, my leadership picture will continue to enlarge. If you keep growing, yours will too.
Leaders have a natural bias toward action. They have to be proactive today for the sake of tomorrow.
Staying ahead of the team comes from thinking ahead of the team. If you think ahead, you can stay ahead.
My goal at the end of each day is to feel satisfied because I gave my very best, but my goal at the beginning of each day is to be dissatisfied enough to try to improve on yesterday.
The leadershifts you need to make will be unique to your journey.
every advance you make as a leader will require a leadershift that changes the way you think, act, and lead.
CHAPTER 2 SOLOIST TO CONDUCTOR The Focus Shift
One of the first and most important shifts anyone must make to become a leader is from soloist to conductor.
it’s wonderful when the people help their leader, but it’s even more wonderful when the leader helps the people.
Good leaders see more than others do, and they see before others do.
Being a good leader is about helping people reach their potential.
Good leaders do what they can to put others in position to win.
Good leaders shift from being self-focused to others-focused.
CHAPTER 3 GOALS TO GROWTH The Personal Development Shift
Goals helped me to do better. But growth helped me to become better.
GOALS HELPED ME TO DO BETTER. BUT GROWTH HELPED ME TO BECOME BETTER.
GROWTH ON THE INSIDE FUELS GROWTH ON THE OUTSIDE.
growth on the inside fuels growth on the outside, not the other way around.
Since then I’ve focused my growth on these four key areas, which I later turned into the acronym R-E-A-L so that I could teach it to others: Relationships, Equipping, Attitude, and Leadership.
Look at any speech I’ve given or book I’ve written, and you will be able to place it into one of those four categories.
I do that by promoting a culture focused on growth, not goals.
Growth’s highest reward is not what we get from it, but what we become by it.
If you want to become a better leader, a better employee, a better person, you must shift from a fixed mind-set to a growth mind-set.
stretching is the ongoing lifestyle of a person of growth.
Growth begins with having a teachable spirit.
I don’t count my losses; I count the lessons I’ve learned from them.
failure isn’t failure if you learn something from it. That’s how you can make failure your friend.
action reduces fear and increases courage.
ACTION REDUCES FEAR AND INCREASES COURAGE.
Few things in life are better than conversation with people who are growing.
“Humility is not denying your strengths,” said pastor and author Rick Warren. “Humility is being honest about your weaknesses.”
Leaders who possess humility are confident yet feel no need to draw attention to themselves.
You must be willing to admit where you’re wrong so that you can discover what is right. Anyone can make that choice, but it requires humility.
CHAPTER 4 PERKS TO PRICE The Cost Shift
I lead because of what I can do for other people. That’s the best motivation to lead others.
If we want to succeed in leadership, we must do what we don’t want to do, so we can do what we need to do. We must be willing to pay the price.
