effective-leadership

Most managers have plenty of emotional commitment to give to their jobs. If they can be convinced it__ safe and sensible to give it.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Try not to take this the wrong way, but your brain is smarter than you are.

This is your one and only precious life. Somebody__ going to decide how it__ going to be lived and that person had better be you.

Your company really has to work for you before you__l really work for your company.

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The economy is in ruins! Bottom line? Good management will defeat a bad economy.

The purpose of leadership is to change the world around you in the name of your values, so you can live those values more fully.

To be effective, we have to slow down the speed of our thoughts and focus on managing our attention.

Growing your leadership capacity demands personal effectiveness. Being effective is the ability to do the right thing at all times, no matter the cost.

One of the most significant barriers to progress is the lack of effective leadership.

Because our attachment to control is either unexamined or addictive, we do not understand that by relinquishing control and providing choice, we increase our influence and impact many times over.

Progress and motion are not synonymous.

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

One day in my pharmacology class, we were discussing the possibility of legalizing marijuana. The class was pretty evenly divided between those that advocated legalizing marijuana and those that did not. The professor said he wanted to hear from a few people on both sides of the argument. A couple students had the opportunity to stand in front of the class and present their arguments. One student got up and spoke about how any kind of marijuana use was morally wrong and how nobody in the class could give him any example of someone who needed marijuana. A small girl in the back of the classroom raised her hand and said that she didn__ want to get up, but just wanted to comment that there are SOME situations in which people might need marijuana. The same boy from before spoke up and said that she needed to back up her statements and that he still stood by the fact that there wasn__ anyone who truly needed marijuana. The same girl in the back of the classroom slowly stood up. As she raised her head to look at the boy, I could physically see her calling on every drop of confidence in her body. She told us that her husband had cancer. She started to tear up, as she related how he couldn__ take any of the painkillers to deal with the radiation and chemotherapy treatments. His body was allergic and would have violent reactions to them. She told us how he had finally given in and tried marijuana. Not only did it help him to feel better, but it allowed him to have enough of an appetite to get the nutrients he so desperately needed. She started to sob as she told us that for the past month she had to meet with drug dealers to buy her husband the only medicine that would take the pain away. She struggled every day because according to society, she was a criminal, but she was willing to do anything she could to help her sick husband. Sobbing uncontrollably now, she ran out of the classroom. The whole classroom sat there in silence for a few minutes. Eventually, my professor asked, __s there anyone that thinks this girl is doing something wrong?_ Not one person raised their hand.

Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.