In the ever-evolving landscape of leadership, certain behaviors stand out as timeless pillars of success. Whether you’re steering a team, managing projects, or leading an organization, your actions as a leader play a pivotal role in shaping outcomes.
This blog post delves into the crucial realm of leadership behaviors, spotlighting the one that can make a transformative impact for you right now.
From fostering resilience to embracing adaptability, the right behavior can set the tone for a positive and high-performing work environment. Join us as we unravel insights into the leadership behavior that holds the key to navigating contemporary challenges and driving success in the present moment.
It’s time to fine-tune your leadership approach, and this blog is your compass for the journey ahead.
Self-Discipline
No leader emerges without self-discipline. It takes one who is willing to delay gratifications and let go unnecessary pleasures to become a leader. There may be no one to tell you what is wrong or right but you must be willing to motivate yourself into avoiding those things that could deter you from achieving your goals of becoming a great leader.
Self-Development
Everything begins to die from its very day of existence. For whatever has been created to remain alive, there must be a deliberate action of development. That you gave birth to a child does not mean the child would grow to become an adult. There is a need to constantly feed the child, enrol the child in school and keep the child healthy by avoiding diseases and germs if that child must eventually become an adult. Many people think and assume that their work of learning stops when they graduate from college or the university but this is very far from the truth. To emerge as a great leader, you must constantly put yourself in the position of learning. Self-development has to be intentional. This was how we developed from primary school when our parents had to take us to school even though we did not want to be there at the beginning. Our parents may no longer be there but we must push and motivate ourselves to keep developing.
Few Leadership Quotes to motivate you
- “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
-Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder - “The true mark of a leader is the willingness to stick with a bold course of action — an unconventional business strategy, a unique product-development roadmap, a controversial marketing campaign — even as the rest of the world wonders why you’re not marching in step with the status quo. In other words, real leaders are happy to zig while others zag. They understand that in an era of hyper-competition and non-stop disruption, the only way to stand out from the crowd is to stand for something special.”
-Bill Taylor, from the article “Do You Pass the Leadership Test?” - “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.”
-Martin Luther King Jr. - “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
-Charles Darwin - “The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.”
-John Maxwell - “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.”
-Jim Rohn - “Leaders instill in their people a hope for success and a belief in themselves. Positive leaders empower people to accomplish their goals.”
-Unknown - “I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.”
-Ralph Nader - “The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can’t blow an uncertain trumpet.”
-Theodore M. Hesburgh - “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
- “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
-Thomas Jefferson - “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.”
-Margeret Mead - “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
-John Quincy Adams - “A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - “Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.”
-Seth Godin - “A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.”
-Lao Tzu
- A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
-Rosalynn Carter - “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
-Jack Welch - “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
