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The fact is, we all have to lead at some point. Some are thrust into
positions of authority whether they like it or not, like the couple who
suddenly discover they will become parents. Some professionals
are required to lead in their daily work (teachers and doctors, for
example). Others are looking to lead in order to promote ideals and
values they feel strongly about, and to guide others who share those
values.
So many situations call for capable leadership. So, how can you lead
effectively?
Work hard to do the following:
2. Be humble.
Boss #1: Makes a mistake. When it's exposed, he or she refuses to
admit it or tries to blame someone else.
Boss #2: Realizes he or she isn't perfect. After recognizing a
mistake, they readily admit and learn from it.
Who would you prefer to work for?
President, director, Mom and Dad. 'Leaders' are no more perfect
than followers. Owning up to that inspires respect.
Additionally, don't be afraid to reach out to your team for help. This
humanizes you, and helps create an environment where people
learn from each other.
3. Praise sincerely.
Praise and recognition can be motivating and inspiring--if it's
authentic and specific.
Here's how to start: Pick one or two employees a day and tell them
something specific you've valued about their work (e.g., the way
they handled a project or problem or a specific quality you saw in
action). Tell them how and why you found their actions so beneficial.
The more details, the better.
Authenticity is key. Don't just go through the motions, checking
people off a list. The goal is to instinctively recognize and appreciate
the efforts of others--and communicate that appreciation
5. Delegate.
Micromanagement 101 states: If you want it done right, you have to
do it yourself. But what happens when you're not around?
Proper delegation, on the other hand, achieves the following:
6. Learn to listen.
No one ever learned anything while speaking.
When you listen skillfully to employees, you stay in touch with the
reality of your company. You become quickly aware of new problems
and how your people are dealing with them.
In addition, you send the message that what's important to them is
important to you. Your advice carries more weight, because it's
based on reality.
Forget about being 'a leader'. It's only a title, and one that's not
good for much. We're all faced with opportunities to lead, so focus
on leading effectively.
Those who follow will do so, not because they have to, but because
they want to.
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Life is difficult. This is the first paragraph ,and the very first
line of Dr. Scott Pecks landmark book of 25 years ago, The Road
Less Traveled.
Translation: If you cant get with this statement, then dont read
the rest of the book.
Today, on Labor Day, there are a group of laborers at our home just
working away. They are part of a team helping with a remodel
project around here. The point here is I didnt ask them to come to
work today. I expected to see them tomorrow. They just decided to
show up, and work. When I asked them why they were here today,
they simply said, we love what we do.'
This team actually traveled here from New Orleans to work on this
and other projects in Atlanta, and everyone on the team owns a
small part of this small framing company. It's their own company, so
they literally see the fruits of their labor every day. The point here
is, they could have easily taken today off. They chose not to. They
love what they do. Just like I do.
Success rule #1 of life is --- love is work.
Nothing good, comes easy. Everything meaningful, is a bit of a pain
in the rear. A little inconvenient. A little frustrating. A little effort.
This is the most basic rule of leadership and success in life, but not
surprising actually, most people miss it. Maybe because many
people who are successful make it look easy. But it is not.
Love it work, and appropriately so it makes sense that an
entrepreneur works 18 hours a day to keep from getting a job. This
is me, basically.
But no one is forcing me to do it. Like the guys at my house, I love
what I do. And when you stop loving what you do, you need to start
thinking about doing something else.
There are many reasons, beyond the obvious, for loving what you
do. Here are a few:
1. The most obvious is that like me and the gentlemen outside right
now, you just love what you do. Its not a vocation, its an
advocation. Its not a career or a skill,its a passion.
2. You love what your job or career allows you do. To make a
difference in the world. To lead a team of great people. To see parts
of the world, and do things, you would not otherwise have the
chance or opportunity to see or do.
3. It allows you to take care of your family and your
responsibilities and to be self-reliant. This is not a small thing here,
so don't discount it.
4. Its R&D (research & development) for your future endeavors.
In other words, someone else is effectively paying you to prepare for
your next stage and phase in life. Complete with employee benefits.
And as long as you are giving your employer a respectable days
work, there is nothing wrong with this. In this case, your 9 to 5, is
paying for your 5 to 9.' As my friend Rod McGrew would say, "fair
exchange is no robbery."
The craziest thing in the world is to give up on your life
simply because it is difficult. Heck LIFE IS DIFFICULT.
Life is 10% what life does to you, and 90% how you choose to
respond to it. Whats your response going to be? Thats all about
the work of life.
Getting angry is easy. Finding grace, reason, patience and
understanding forgiveness even is work. Often, very hard work.
But its the only rational way to live really.
Author Scott Peck once also said, love is work, non-love is laziness,
and anti-love is evil. The reality is, evil exists but it is very rare.
Most people are simply lazy. Emotionally lazy, financially lazy,
psychologically lazy, intellectually lazy. They just dont want to do
the work.
If you love your job, you will want to quit just about once a month.
If you love your children, you will want to throttle them, at least
once every six to eight weeks.
If you are married, you will want a divorce at least once a year. This
is not your life, this is just life.
The truth is, most people even want a divorce from themselves at
least once a year. I know I do.
I have even wanted to quit Operation HOPE on more than one
occasion over 23+ years, but then I realized, I cant Im the
founder (smile).
Which reminds of the young man who came home and told his
mother he wanted to quit school. 'All the kids were mean and the
teachers and adults hard to handle. He wanted to quit he said, until
his mother reminded him that he was the principal of the
school -- and couldn't quit (smile again).'
Challenges are everywhere, so you might as well embrace them
folks.
The reality is that most anything, or most anyone you love --- will
drive you more than a little crazy. Maybe even a lot crazy.
As my dear friend Rod McGrew once also said, "John, if you are
madly in love, and ready to submit to the it, the drama will
entertainment you. Now, if you are madly in love, but not ready to
submit to the it, then that same drama will drive you crazy."
Nothing may change about the drama in your life in the short term.
But you can change how you view and respond to it.
You can choose to respond, not react.
As you forward in your week, remember that only in the dictionary
does the work success come before the word work, because the
dictionary is alphabetical. Everywhere else, work comes first.
Even the Bible says, to be poor is not to not have anything. To be
poor is not to not do anything, and lazy hands make a man poor.
I have said, there is a lot of love in the word no.
I love you cousin, but you need to get off of my couch and go get a
job.
I love you friend, but if you are going to have that child, then you
are going to have to take care of them.
I love you -- whomever, but if you do the crime, you are going to
have to do the time.
I love you notable person, but if you are going to call yourself a
community leader, you are going to have to produce some
community results.
Whatever you love, will drive you just a little mad. But the reality is
that there is no growth without legitimate suffering. There are no
rainbows, without a storm first.
All love is work. Embrace it. All.
You will experience both more success in life, and more joy within
you too.
Let's go...
John Hope Bryant is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation
HOPE and Bryant Group Ventures, a Thinker-In-Residence 800-CEOREAD, and an Inc. Magazine/800-CEO-READ bestselling business
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And so, the focus of this article is the little ways you can fall in love
with your life.
Fall in Love with Your LIFE Again
Somewhere along the way we came to believe that happiness was a
place we were destined and entitled to arrive. We also came to
believe that happiness came with having everything we want. These
mistaken beliefs can really mislead us. If we arent feeling happy or
we're not getting what we want, we tend to feel like something is
wrong.
But, nothing is wrong with your life and nothing is wrong with you.
To really access the marrow of life we need to learn some skills that
help take our focus away from what we dont have or should have
and instead connect us with what is. Here are three things you can
do today to shift your thinking and to love the life you have before
you.
Look for what's amazing in your everyday life.
Most of us have unconscious expectations about how our life should
be. At the very least, we all have hopes that our lives will turn out in
a particular way. When you're preoccupied with comparing what you
have against what you think you should have, you're not able to
appreciate what you have for what it is. One of the easiest ways to
figure out if your expectations are keeping you from being satisfied
with your life is to pay attention to your habits. Do you crave a
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START TODAY!
If you're serious about your entrepreneurial ambitions, you'll read it
in just a couple of days. Otherwise, you're wasting your time; all
you'll be left with is a business plan no one in the investor
community wants to read. In 6 months' time, you'll still be left with
your business plan and ... bitterness.
What investors want are metrics. If you have metrics, it means you
found a way to address a problem, build a solution around it and
found early customers or users for it. It means you understand what
being a modern entrepreneur is about. This doesn't make a
successful entrepreneur out of you; it means you work in stages and
you are able to milestone your journey. First stop: seed funding.
When you analyze entrepreneur failure as much as I have, you come
to realize that we often focus on the wrong thing at the wrong time.
We pay so much attention or put so much stress on the idea of
building a successful business that we forget everything in between.
So much so that the everything in between gets overlooked.
Entrepreneurs might be fine with that, but investors don't.
Business Angels receive hundreds of business plans they just don't
read. Accelerator programmes and incubators have limited places
and they're choosy. Bootcamps where you get 10 minutes to pitch
are equally selective: you won't get on stage unless you've got
something really serious to show for.
So, ask yourself one question: what will you do with your next 6
months? Will you resist change and keep doing the unsuccessful? Or
will you use the next 6 months to learn how to be successful?
I know this is a great dilemma!
Not so much? Great; you chose the learning! There aren't 36 ways to
do this:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
You have a choice. I suspect 1 and 2 will take longer than 6 months
to get you to investor-ready. 5 is probably your best option because
you're being taken care of; you're not just looking for information,
you're being given knowledge in a structure way.
When you make your choice, keep in mind your #1 objective:
convince investors you are investor-ready. The success of your
business will come later, a lot later.
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times when you can zone out and focus on you. Make sure you have
a small notebook and pen always at the ready, and focus on
answering these key interview questions for maximum interview
success:
1) Tell me about yourself (5 mins)
To answer this, simply write a script about your past experience and
proven successes, following this formula:
What has been your most recent experience (what were you
doing and where)
One reason why you like the industry and your work
One achievement (pick the one most relevant to the role you
are interviewing for)
should only take you 5 minutes to prepare. But if you havent (tut,
tut, tut) then you will need to get on the internet sharpish. Go to
their website, look at their mission and vision statements, then go
through the rest website and see if there is any information about
what they have achieved and want to achieve. Then do the same
onGoogle.com. The great news is, with the amazing invention of
smartphones, you can now even prepare this one in bathroom!
3) Why should we hire you? (31 mins total)
Ok, so here its all about focus. You only want to focus on
information RELEVANT to the role you are interviewing for. Youre
mainly looking at the jobs youve had over the last 10 years (12 if
you have time). With this question, they want to know what you can
bring to the table and how well you understand their business.
Simply write 3 lists:
a) Companies (1 minute)
List the companies you have worked for that share commonalities
with the company you are interviewing with e.g. similar industry,
products, operations, sales/marketing strategies, consumers etc.
Show them you know their business.
b) Relevant experience (15 minutes)
Go through each job youve had in the last 10 years and write down
all of the responsibilities / experience youve had, MOST relevant to
the job. Pick the sexy stuff. The stuff that really shows you can do
the job. That you understand the job and what it entails. Ideally you
want 2 to 3 examples for each role youve had in the last 10 years,
with a total of around 8-10 examples ready at your fingertips.
c) Relevant Achievements (15 minutes)
This is the biggie. If you have no time to do anything else, then
focus here. Your achievements show what value you can add to the
business. Whatever you have achieved for your previous companies,
the new employer will assume you will achieve for them. They are
the reason the company will hire you. Why you are worth the
investment. Again, you are focusing on the achievements RELEVANT
to the job you are interviewing for. Quantify as much as possible
include as many figures, percentages, time measurements etc. as
you can. Achievements could be:
Increased sales / revenues by x amount of dollars or Grew the
business by y %.
Saved the company x amount of $ or reduced process time by
y number of days increasing efficiency by z %.
Write at least 3 examples for each role you have had in the last 10
years. If youve had only one role for the last 10 years you still
want roughly 10 examples. 1 for each year!
If youre super modest and struggling to list your achievements,
focus on what value you have brought to your previous companies
and work from there (read this to get you started).
4) What are your strengths/weaknesses? (8 minutes)
Pick 3-5 strengths and one weakness. Again, for the strengths, focus
on whats most relevant to the job you are interviewing for. Give
examples of when you used each strength. For the weakness its a
trick question. Focus on a weakness that could be a strength in a
different context e.g. 'Sometimes I'm too enthusiastic when working
on a new project. But I've learned to adjust to everyone else's pace
and not go charging ahead.'
5) Why did you leave that job? / What didnt you like about
that job? (5 minutes)
Wanting a higher salary, better health insurance/benefits, having an
a*sehole boss, crappy teammates, too much hard work, are NOT
good answers to either of these questions. While they might be the
real reason, KEEP THEM OUT of the interview. ALWAYS be as positive
as you can about every job, boss, co-worker, company you have
ever had. When answering these questions, focus on passion,
learning opportunities and career growth. The interviewer wants to
know you are joining them to grow and make a difference not
because you want a higher paycheck.
6) Give me an example when and how you dealt with it (15
mins)
These are your famous Competency-based questions. HR
departments love them. Its mainly to figure out behavioural style,
interpersonal skills, thought processes and personality. Making sure
you have the right stuff to handle any situation that presents itself.
Again focus on the ones relevant to the job you are interviewing.
Examples could be when you had to show leadership, manage
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What's nice about this model is it's easy to understand and use. The
four quadrants speak for themselves, and while typically balance is
usually a goal to strive for, in this case - it's not.
Here, the goal is to expand Open Self to build and maintain our
leadership brand.
Expanding our "Openness"
Key to knowing for sure the impact and consistency of our brand is
being able to expand ourOpenness into the three other areas in
order to reduce our blindness, identify barriers we are unaware of
and remove them, and to share more of ourselves we have difficulty
disclosing to others.
Good news - it's POSSIBLE!!!
Planning a Way Forward
If you're unclear what constitutes Hidden and what you need to
disclose to open up this space further, think of Trust - a basic tenant
of Leadership.
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I drew this for you mama because you were sad, and I
don't want you to be sad, I want you to be strong, and I
want you to know that I love you so much. I wrote ILU by
myself, and it's you and me so close with a pink heart
between us.
My five year old daughter told me these sweet words a few days ago
when she noticed that I was so tired after a hectic week at work. We
are all human beings, and sometimes we easily forget that our
natural emotions could instantly affect our family.
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Just over a year ago my Dad passed away from a huge and sudden
stroke. It was a shock then and remains a stark and absolute
reminder that even the strongest, invincible, seemingly unstoppable
comes to an end. This is as true for people as it is for products,
services and customers. It has been a challenging year for many
reasons and one in which - to quote Jim Rohn I have gone to work
on myself As a result I think I have grown and learned some
valuable lessons for life, and by definition for business, that I
thought it worth sharing.
1.
think about what you want to achieve in life, set some life goals,
give yourself a purpose to consider that is outside of your daily,
weekly or monthly grind. I have created great energy and great
progress from clearly defining my Life Goals, creating 3 year goals,
yearly goals and priorities that drive me forward.
2.
3.
4.
5.
resonates, you pass it on and that you build a brighter future for you
or someone else as a result. Remember life is too short not
to be the best that you want to be #btbtywtb.
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When he flies on Delta, you wont see him in business class (though
everyone would certainly understand if he chose to sit there!)
instead, youll find Mr. Anderson sitting in coach so he can
understand what his customers experience on his airline.
Mr. Anderson is known for truly connecting with people. He never
speaks from the top down, and he is greatly successful for it. Hes
open about who he is, and he brings a whole, well-rounded person
to the office each day.
When you reflect on your experience in the office, do you see any
room to bring more of your whole self into the workplace? People
love working with other people, not perfectly polished workers who
never show their human side. If youre ready to get more insight
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