Reading: What is an effective leader? Part 1 (The Video Slides)

Learning To Lead

  Session 2

What is an effective leader? 

Leader Vs. Manager

    Manager                                         Leader

    Planning                                         Identifying Purpose

    Organizing                                     Identifying Goals

    Focused on reaching goals         Focused on Big Picture

    Allocation of Resources              Concepts

    Controlling                                    Releasing

    Shepherding                                 Ranching 

“Everything rises and falls on Leadership.”

  - John Maxwell

Who is an Effective Leader?

Abraham Lincoln           Winston Churchill

Franklin Roosevelt         Teddy Roosevelt

George Washington       Jack Welch

Steve Jobs                      Bill Gates

Bill Hybels                       Rick Warren

John Wooden                 Pete Carrol

Mother Theresa              Michelle Rhee

Mary Barra

“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, or a home. The remarkable thing is that we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past.  Nor can we change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We also cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.  And so it is with you—we are in charge of our attitudes.”

  - Charles Swindoll

Cos Report on American Business

Interviewed Fortune 500 business leaders.  94% attributed their success more to attitude than any other basic ingredient.

Robert Half International

  Reasons to fire an employee

    Incompetence -  30%

    Inability to get along with others - 17%

    Dishonesty or lying  - 12%

    Negative attitude  - 10%

    Lack of motivation   -   7%

    Failure or refusal to follow instruction   -  7%

    All other reasons     -   8%

Carnegie Institute

  Analyzed the records of 10,000 people and concluded that 15% of success is due to technical training. The other 85% is due to personality, and the primary personality trait identified by the research is attitude.

San Francisco Principal

Hot dog seller

4 Minute Mile

Feelings vs. Attitude

  People with emotional issues are 144% more likely to have automobile accidents.

  One out of every 5 victims of fatal accidents had a quarrel within six hours before his accident.

If you think you are beaten, you are.

If you think you dare not, you don’t.

If you’d like to win, but think you can’t,

It’s almost certain you won’t.

Life’s battles don’t always go

To the stronger or faster man,

But sooner or later, the man who wins

Is the man who thinks he can.

  - Arnold Palmer

What are 3 attitudes that are negatively affecting you right now?

Changing Your Attitude

1.Identify the problem feelings;

2.Identify the problem behavior;

3.Identify the problem thinking;

4.Identify right thinking;

5.Make a public commitment to right thinking;

6.Develop a plan for right thinking (including accountability).

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

  - Walt Emerson