This ability comes more readily to some than to others. You can see leadership ability in children, but this may not develop into adult leadership, and the shy child may become the strong executive. It is also true that a few people who show no potential before they are put in positions of responsibility suddenly become great leaders.
We must discuss the self-examination you must perform to discover your potential. The careful use of this technique is particularly important in the area of leading or managing. Some may study their horoscopes to find if they have these abilities and if you want to use this method go ahead. Just don't complain to me about the results.
Even if you don't have the perfect traits - and remember there are many types of good leaders - you can develop a number of the right characteristics. You may have to work harder than the naturally gifted leader, but it will be worth the struggle.
We are going to examine the subject of leadership from three angles in this article:
- Understanding people
- Surrounding yourself with good people.
- Giving orders.
- Know yourself and decide what you want most of all to make out of your life. Then write down your goals and plan to reach them.
- Use the great powers you can tap through faith in God and the hidden energies of your soul and subconscious mind.
- Love people and serve them.
- Develop your positive traits of character and person ality.
- Work! Put your life's plan into determined action and go after what you want with all that's in you. - Henry J. Kaiser
Start living in the consciousness of what you want. Clothe it with your desires; see it happening in your mind's eye; have faith it is going to happen; put forth every effort to help make it happen; keep the "mental ether" magnetically charged with the mental pictures of your objective. - Harold Sherman
To believe a business impossible is the way to make it so. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. - Jeremy Collier
The big salaries in business always go to those who have what it takes to get things done. That is true not only of those executives who guide the destinies of a business, but it is true of those upon whom those executives must depend for results. - J. C. Aspley
It has been said that the difference between a thorough bred horse and a scrub is that a scrub goes until it can't go another mile-and then goes that other mile. The rich re wards of tomorrow come, not to those who wilt, not to those who show the white feather, but to those who have faith and vision and confidence enough to buck the tide, to grit their teeth and forge unswervingly ahead. Winners prove to be those who have the manhood, the fortitude to say, "Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead." - B. C. Forbes
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee working on it. - C. F. Kettering
The pursuit of a successful career requires a sincere application. One of the best ways to advance is to actually "live" the part. Think that you have already achieved success. Live your life as though you were already there. You will be amazed at the results. . . . You will realize methods and ways of getting closer to your goal almost daily. - Siegfried Schlindwein
We never spent time dreaming about what Standard Oil might someday become. We just tried to make the best of each opportunity that arose, attending to one day's business at a time. - John D. Rockefeller
For just experience tells, in every soil, that those who think must govern those that toil. - Oliver Goldsmith
