It takes courage for a leader to identify and confront self-imposed barriers, to put in place the personal strategies required to unleash the energy, innovation, and commitment to self-development.
Interpretation
Leaders must have the courage to face their own limitations and actively work to overcome them for personal growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and courage in leadership. It suggests that effective leaders take the initiative to recognize the barriers they impose on themselves and are willing to implement strategies that allow them to grow and develop. This self-development not only fuels their own innovation and commitment but also inspires others within their organization to strive for excellence.
In practice
In a corporate training session when discussing personal growth.
When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person.
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Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people.
In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.
Whether somebody is really competent - whether he has a good hockey mind, whether he's a good person to lead a hockey club - is something determined over a long period of time, not one tournament.
Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
A major reason capable people fail to advance is that they don't work well with their colleagues.
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