The world is famishing for leaders.
Our school system does not prepare students to be leaders but followers. As we are faced with recession, jobs are outsourced to skilled yet cheaper workers overseas, high paying jobs seem to be going to highly qaulified immigrants with special visas, presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain provide no real visionary leadership our nation can follow.
We have a leadership crisis in our nation. I go to Church every Sunday and I have learned at least 10 important keys to leadership success from my pastor, Jonas Clark. Mind you, I didn’t learn these in school. I learn them in the House of God. Here they are:
1. How You Think Affects Everything: All of us are products of the decisions we have made in our lives. How you think controls what decisions you will make with your life. Right decisions equal right outcomes.
2. Set Goals: Without goals you can never move forward in your life. Goals, short-term and long-term help you identify your progress. Without them you wander endlessly and waste years of life being ineffective. Write your goals down today. What do you want to carry out this year? Be specific.
3. Take Action: Faith without works is dead. Goals are nothing without action. Do something today. Act on your beliefs.
4. Never Stop Learning: Every successful person throughout history maintained a lifestyle of learning. Read books, attend seminars, watch training videos.
5. Work Hard And Be Persistent: Success doesn’t happen overnight. Success is a marathon and requires fortitude and persistence.
6. Stay On Top of Your Game: Don’t ignore what’s happening in your life. Analyze details. Learn from your mistakes.
7. Stay Focused: Benjamin Franklin once said, “He who follows two hares is sure to catch neither.” It’s easy to get distracted from your goals and lose focus. Make a “to do” list and finish something every day.
8. Innovate: Successful people do things differently. Innovation is the key to improvement and breakthrough. Innovation is doing something new and different.
9. Learn to Communicate Effectively: Effective communication enables you to be understood. All successful people are masters at clear conversation.
10. Work On Your Character: Character development takes time and is forged in the trials of life. Character includes resolve, honesty, responsibility, trustworthiness and discipline. Without right character all the other traits don’t mean much.
Source: The Voice blog
