Once again, I am taking a brief pause from the Leadership View series for the monthly quote. The series will return next week with Leadership View #12.
This month’s leadership quote:
Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations — Peter F. Drucker
What a relief, this means EVERY leader has the potential to succeed…That is, if he or she wants to. For me, this quote means that to accomplish successful leadership, we must step outside of ourselves and focus on the people we are leading. We must identify what drives each individual on our team, identify their unique genius and coach them toward success. It is our job as leaders to inspire the people we lead to take the next step, to take the risk to achieve growth and as Drucker says, achieve beyond their limitations.
Perhaps the place to start is with identifying these same factors within ourselves…
The initial results of my Pivot are excellent. I feel I have much greater clarity regarding the next 3-5 years.. 