Leadership....We Were Going Through Some Keepers Relating to Leadership and Found This Piece Dating Back to 2010
What Does Being a Leader Look Like?
From the book CEO Material by Debra Benton,
Page 91, DebraBenton.com
If you choose to lead (because it is your choice), you
Think “we” instead of “me”; you put forth individual effort to create team-based wins
Have other awareness not just self-awareness and campaign for others, not yourself
Understand that being a leader is a service job – service to employees, social causes, and customers (note: we would add shareholders, suppliers and providers of credit)
Improve your people’s reputation, not your own alone, and you keep it about others, not you
Grow others and share credit; you make it possible for others to use their abilities and take people to places they normally wouldn’t go on their own
Don’t just focus on your work but focus instead on the business as a whole; you get a large number of people moving in a similar direction where they’re able to accomplish a great thing
Build a team of like-minded people around you and fill in gaps of what’s missing in your own expertise
Take responsibility for your own weakness, even if only in private, and you get skills or put people around you with skills
Grow things and free up capital, and you see where the company can go and where you can be of help
Keep whatever team you lead moving
Do more than get everything done; you make a huge impact every day
Spark ambitions in others-both those under your direct control and those who are not
Make choices, minute by minute, that make you better in your work
Treat your people as associates / colleagues, not subordinates
Have organized thinking, and you can take a problem or opportunity and sort it out logically.