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25
Leadership Maxims |
by:
Brent
Filson |
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Summary: Maxims have an illustrious history
in the annuals of leadership. Applying the
less-is-more principle of expression, maxims
can trigger action, guide behavior and promote
values. A renown leadership expert offers
25 maxims that he has composed, maxims that
can enrich your leadership awareness and
effectiveness.
25 Leadership Maxims
by Brent Filson
"We will never know how really good we are
as leaders unless we are leading people
to be better than they think they are."
"Poor performance is less harmful to a leader
than mediocre performance disguised as good
performance."
"Most leaders are striving to get the wrong
results or the right results in the wrong
ways."
"The lowest forms of leadership involve
rewards and punishments."
"Getting along is not necessarily getting
results."
"If you can't feel it, you can't lead it,
and they won't do it."
"Leadership is the trim tab of all careers."
"Leadership is seeing hope in any adversity."
"To make a difference, be the difference."
"In leadership, you don't have to expect
the worse, you just have to make the most
of it when it happens."
"The best leaders make use of the simplest
of ideas."
"If you are always right, you are usually
wrong."
"The best way for a leader to communicate
an idea is to bundle it in a human being."
"The most persuasive art of leadership is
to hide your leadership."
"Refraining from action is sometimes the
best action."
"It's not so much what you say as a leader
that's important; it's the action the people
take after you have had your say."
"In leadership, the value of every need
is in its use."
"Leadership is not about living a easy life
for ourselves but a hard life for others."
"We ourselves are our own biggest obstacles
to becoming better leaders."
"Leadership is showing people not that they
must take a certain action but that they
GET TO take that action."
"Half the art of listening is waiting."
"To get the best out of people, embrace
the best in them."
"People are often unaware of the best that's
in them. When you show it to them, you are
half way down the road to motivating them
to be your cause leaders."
"Achievement needs three things, the leader,
the cause leader, and the moment."
"In the long run, the most important results
of leadership are not what we achieve but
what we become in that achieving."
2005 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc.
All rights reserved.
About the Author
The author of 23 books, Brent Filson's
recent books are, THE LEADERSHIP TALK:
THE GREATEST LEADERSHIP TOOL and 101 WAYS
TO GIVE GREAT LEADERSHIP TALKS. He has
been helping leaders of top companies
worldwide get audacious results. Sign
up for his free leadership e-zine and
get a free white paper: "49 Ways To Turn
Action Into Results," at www.actionleadership.com |
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