and look nice but without a vehicle
you won't be able to take your vision on that special date.
Your leadership power gets most of its energy from a
strategy that just begs to be driven. Your strategy can help
you sustain the momentum and force of your vision.
In my time, I've seen plenty of ugly cars, trucks and trains
but they all had one thing in common - they would take you
wherever you wanted to go and could make the journey of
getting there just as exciting, memorable and comfortable as
any roadway beauty.
You will need to drive your strategy
=> by steering towards your stretch goals,
=> by filling-up with the right resources,
=> by using a roadmap to navigate through the thorny areas
=> by measuring the effectiveness of its progress and
execution.
Power Principle-4 - Do You Speak The Language?
Are your words doing the job they need to do? Are your
thoughts reaching out to connect with their hearts and
minds? Do you appreciate their uniqueness, commitment and
contributions?
There is a certain magic which happens when our words
accomplish their purpose. To create the Universe, God said,
"Let there be light", and there was light!
Our words have the power to create or destroy - we must
understand that the words we speak have the ability to bring
life or death to the situation.
Ideas, procedures, opinions, facts and dreams are
reflections of our thoughts. We think therefore we are who
we are. Leaders use the language of meanings, beliefs and
feelings to connect with and compliment the hearts and minds
of people.
Studies on motivation reveal humans are hungry for
recognition and acceptance. The easiest way to motivate a
person is based on your continual, sincere and realistic
show of appreciation for their talents, achievements,
good-faith efforts and positive attitude.
Power Principle-5 - Be Congruent, Consistent, Cooperative!
There is something off-beat, brittle and frail about a
building that is missing key parts of its structure - a
broken roof, steel bars sticking out of the walls, crumbling
foundation can make you wonder how or why the building is
still standing.
Congruency is the state effective leaders try to maintain in
their actions -
=> they line-up their actions with their words,
=> they link their values to their behaviors,
=> their attitudes are in-sync with their conversations
Consistency is judged by your performance over time -
=> Do you always apply the same standards to everyone?
=> Do you usually make your decisions based on all the
available facts?
=> Do you appear to act and behave in the same ways you do
when facing similar kinds of situations?
Cooperative people know that using honey captures more
flies! To win over people to your point of view, your
history of respecting, valuing and working with their
desires, differences and decisions goes a long way in
gaining their cooperation with your plans.
Great leaders have always cooperated with people by
=> Asking for their opinions, thoughts and experiences
=> Listening to them, showing understanding by summarizing
their statements
=> Incorporating their ideas, beliefs and meanings into the
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