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6 Leadership Books To Read Before The Year Ends
Leading others often starts with leading oneself…
Below are the 6 best leadership and self help books that you can read right now to develop your sense of direction, find your most authentic self and achieve your goals!
Wondering what are the best leadership books to read before this year comes to an end?
1. Grit By Angela Duckworth
Grit is nothing more than a combination of courage, passion and perseverance.
In her book Grit, Angela Duckworth interviews a series of leaders from all walks of life whose grit has helped them succeed and whose stories will surely inspire you.
2. How To Win Friends & Influence People By Dale Carnegie
In How To Win Friends & Influence People, Dale Carnegie gives practical advice on how to successfully attract people, convert their way of thinking towards our ideas, on how to be more confident, achieve more and reach your highest potential in life thanks to your relationships.
3. The Little Book Of Big Lies By Tina Lifford
In The Little Book Of Big Lies, Tina Lifford gives helpful advice for you to build up your inner self and shares fourteen real life stories to help you move on from trauma and your past.
4. Year Of Life By Shonda Rhimes
In her funny memoir Year Of Life, Shonda Rhimes shares her poignant life story and her journey towards personal success.
Throughout her book, she makes you laugh but also reflect on the power of saying yes, of continually staying positive and focused.
5. The Magic Of Thinking Big By David J. Schwartz
David J. Schwartz teaches us throughout The Magic Of Thinking Big to:
- Think big and set bigger than life goals.
- Overcome our fear of failure by actually accomplishing our goals.
- Fail forward and trust the process.
6. The Obstacle Is The Way By Ryan Holiday
In The Obstacle Is The Way, Ryan Holiday employs the lessons of Greek philosophy to help you see past your failures and obstacles.
He encourages you to persevere no matter what and to apply a certain stoicism to most of your life situations.
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Each one of these books demonstrate ways to achieve long term success, accomplish your dreams and figure out a solution to every single one of your problems.
To top it all off, these books also exhibit great examples of people who have remained optimistic and creative in the face of challenges.
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How to Win Friends & Influence People By Dale Carnegie
For some reason, successful leaders seem to know how to effectively handle people, to win friends and to influence people…
These leaders have built their entire life and professional career around people by following basic principles.
Wining Friends
Leaders understand that relationships can take you to the next level. Therefore, they tend to:
1. Avoid negative reviews
Leaders who are socially skilled avoid making complaints, condemning people, or manufacturing open and public criticism.
They understand that negative criticism generally breeds resentment.
Instead, they try to understand where the people are coming from.
2. Find out what the people really want
Most people care about their health, self-preservation, food, sleep, money, a craving for sincere appreciation and a desire for importance…
Furthermore, appreciation does not consist in giving cheap flattery but in honest appreciation.
If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are. - Dale Carnegie Click To Tweet
3. Show people how to get what they want
To show people what they want and how to get it, leaders:
- Consider the advantages and disadvantages of the situation.
- Learn to see things from the other person’s point of view.
Influencing People
Influencing people is a basic and important skill in leadership.
That is why leaders who seek to increase their leadership:
1. Genuinely become interested in other people
They understand human nature, truly enjoy the interaction with people and do things for other people without any ulterior motives.
In addition, they remember people’s name, learn to smile and to be cheerful in their presence.
Indeed, smiling is contagious and can change an entire situation.
2. Become versed in the art of conversation
Being a great conversationalist starts by listening to people and encouraging people to talk about themselves.
Therefore, leaders find out the other person’s interest and start from there.
3. Obey the Golden Rule
Leaders observe the rules of human relationships.
As a consequence, they obey the Golden Rule and give unto others what we would have others give unto us.
4. Use diplomacy
To win people over to your way of thinking, they:
- Are diplomatic.
- Avoid arguments at all cost.
- Never tell a person that they are wrong.
- Consider the other person’s feelings, ideas and point of view.
- Show respect for another person’s point of view.
- Admit their wrongs and appeal to nobler motives.
- Admit their mistakes and talk about them.
- Don’t give direct orders but suggestions.
- Give people the opportunity to make decisions for themselves and to correct themselves.
- Don’t hurt people’s self-esteem and don’t diminish them in their own eyes
Review
How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie aims to educate adults into building healthy relationships and climbing up the social ladder.
Dale Carnegie shares contemporaneous and pragmatic principles that serve as guidelines for leaders who wish to network and grow their social capital.
Most of these principles are essential to life as much as the business world and will increase your skill in human relationship.
However, Dale Carnegie promotes the praising or “sucking up” game and uses the term “friend” very loosely.
That is because most of the principles are geared towards the business world and most of his examples are taken from people who have successfully implemented these principles.
Unfortunately, praises don’t work on everybody and is not a solution to all problems.
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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.Hurting people not only does not change them, it is never called for.
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5 Essential Skills For Driving Innovation
Every organization has their own culture, core values and mission statement.
Every leader has their own norms and leadership style.
Therefore, every leader demonstrates the importance of innovation and societal rules within their organisation.
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Quote Of The Week #259
15 Reasons Why Leaders Should Adopt A Minimalist Lifestyle
Minimalism is a lifestyle choice that has to be maintained on a regular.
Minimalism consists in living with only what you need, removing excess and owning less.
Leaders who choose a minimalistic lifestyle are intentional about their lives.
Wondering why leaders should adopt a minimalist lifestyle?
1. You get to know yourself better
2. You are able to examine and reclaim your life
3. You get to focus on the essentials, on your goals and your purpose
4. You value your possessions and relationships more
5. You rather quality over quantity
6. You dont seek to gain material things but enjoy learning new concepts
7. You release mental load and emotional clutter
8. You are able to avoid distractions
9. You feel free to do what you really want to do
10. You stress less about things and people and don’t get overwhelmed easily
11. You gain more time at work
12. You free up your time, energy, and money and are careful how you use your ressources
13. You get to make sound decisions and evaluate the outcome
14. You lose the need to fill up physical and mental space
15. You live in the moment
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Once you’ve gotten rid of the clutter and adopted a minimalistic lifestyle, you’ll realize how much mental load you’ve been carrying around.
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Quote Of The Week #252
So Smart But…: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility – And How They Can Get It Back by Allen K. Weiner
Credibility, the quality or power to inspire trust and belief, is essential and strategic to career evolution.
Credibility is so difficult to acquire and to maintain but so quick and easy to lose.
Credibility is 45% how you look, 45% how you sound and 10% what you say.
In agreement with McCroskey, scholar in West Virginia University, there are five factors of credibility:
1. Competence
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to champion the company’s vision, engage in innovation, focus on performance and results, and to build a high performance organization.
With competence, an employee is able to explain concept with the appropriate message and to calibrate a message to a specific listener.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is not understanding or is reacting inappropriately to an issue at hand.
- Is lacking better judgement in order to make the right decisions.
- Reflects too long before making a decision.
2. Character
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to foster a climate of innovation, to foster and model the company’s values.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is lacking passion and drive for their work
- Is arrogant. This character flaw can be corrected by changing your words when addressing your colleagues, expressing interest in them, asking for advice, listening more in conversations and sharing your personal weaknesses.
- Cannot manage emotions very well.
- Has it out for some people in their organization.
3. Composure
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to manage workforce performance and delegate appropriately.
Credibility is easily lost if someone:
- Is not timely (not punctual with deliveries, appears frantic and rushing,…).
- Cannot manage emotions very well.
- Maneuver their body language to manifest their belonging.
- Decorate and manage their personal space.
- Does not look the part by not applying the company’s dress code, by not grooming oneself when coming to work or even by not working out.
4. Sociability
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to demonstrate interpersonal skills.
5. Extroversion
Extroversion as defined in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
This quality is acquired when an employee has succeeded to passionately drive the company’s strategy.
Review
So Smart But…: How Intelligent People Lose Credibility – And How They Can Get It Back by Allen K. Weiner is a self-development book is very relatable, accurate and was very difficult to read since I have met up with most of the scenarios and possess some of the corporate personality flaws discussed in this book.
Allen N. Weiner, in So Smart But…, provides tips on how to preserve and enhance your credibility in the workplace.
Furthermore, every argument is properly illustrated with realistic workplace scenario and is not gender biased.
According to Allen N. Weiner, to climb the social ladder, it seems that one needs to :
- comply to too many non written rules, indicative of a rigid and intolerant society that is the corporate world. Is it possible to apply every single one of these rules to the cost of spreading oneself very thinly?
- be likeable to succeed when, in my opinion, likeability can only take you so far. Indeed, in my experience, it is preferable and more effective to be respected in corporate culture because being liked puts you on equal footing with your pairs, constitutes additional emotional work and subjects you to fluctuating and random external opinion. Nevertheless, according to Allen N. Weiner, people who are not liked are trying to find excuses instead of trying to be liked.
- adapt, be accepted by your pairs or fitting in. Fitting in is very hard to do but not impossible to do. Check out the article Signs that You are a good fit for your new job.
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Ratings 4/5
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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow By John C. Maxwell
There are 21 irrefutable laws of leadership that every leader should hold on to…
1. The law of the lid
Your ability to lead determines your effectiveness, the height of your success, the limit of your vision, the impact of your influence.
To overcome the law of the lid, you have to increase your ability to lead.
2. The law of influence
Influence is an important part of leadership.
You have to put in work to gain influence. It is not about a title or a leadership position and cannot be bought.
With influence, you can rally people to a cause, move people in a new direction, and you can win people over on the long run.
3. The law of process
Leadership is a lifelong process.
LEADERSHIP IS DEVELOPED DAILY, NOT IN A DAY. - John C. Maxwell in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Click To Tweet
Leadership is a collection of skills that need continual improvement, personal growth and learning.
Leadership requires a lot of self discipline and determination. It is important for leaders to open themselves up for improvement to start slow and fight their way up.
4. The law of navigation
Leaders need to effectively navigate their way through life, while knowing people are depending on them.
In order to give themselves the best chances at success, they:
- Are realistic.
- Have to stay focused and in control.
- Have a solid vision for their destination.
- Have enough visibility to change course in time if they want to.
- Draw their itinerary from their past failures and successes.
- Listen to what their team has to say.
- Don’t make commitments lightly.
- Plan the course of their action.
5. The law of E. F. Hutton
Leaders become real leaders thanks to their character, relationships, knowledge, experience, past successes and abilities. People will not follow you because of your position.
The law of E. F. Hutton helps you figure out who the real leader in the room really is.
To find the real leader, observe the reaction of the people in the room when the real leader speaks.
6. The law of solid ground
Leaders must communicate their character, exemplify their behavior, maintain their credibility and avoid breaking the trust of their followers.
When leaders make a mistake, they must quickly admit it and ask for forgiveness.
7. The law of respect
Leaders who are stronger and better leaders than their followers tend to gain respect.
8. The law of intuition
The law of intuition is a complex part of leadership, relies on instinct, facts and other factors.
Leaders who work with the law of intuition are able to sense a situation, to read people and themselves, to use their intuition to achieve their goals and to solve problems.
9. The law of magnetism
The law of magnetism states that who you are is who you attract.
Leaders who follow this law are able to attract the people who possess the same qualities as they do.
They attract people with same attitude, from the same generation and background, with the same values, life experiences and abilities.
Character makes trust possible. And trust makes leadership possible. - John C. Maxwell in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership Click To Tweet
10. The law of connection
Leaders who observe this law touch people emotionally, know how to communicate with people, connect with them and show that they care.
The more leaders work on the connection with their employees, the more employees are loyal and demonstrate a strong work ethic.
11. The law of the inner circle
The people in the leader’s inner circle will determine the leader’s potential.
Leaders understand that they cannot be a lone ranger and acknowledge the purpose and strengths of the inner circle.
12. The law of empowerment
Successful and secure leaders empower and believe in their team.
Those who don’t create a barrier that their employees cannot overcome.
13. The law of reproduction
The law of reproduction works in a way where only leaders are capable of developing leaders and by teaching them what they know.
Some leaders don’t develop other leaders because they don’t have time or because of their own insecurities.
14. The law of buy in
People buy into leaders who have a vision.
If they don’t like the leader or the vision, they get another leader.
If the leader is credible, then people believe that the vision is credible as well.
15. The law of victory
Leaders who observe this law refuse defeat, dedicate themselves to victory and find a way to achieve success.
16. The law of the big mo
Leaders understand that to create change they need to create momentum.
Momentum is contagious, improves performance and makes the leader look good.
17. The law of priorities
Leaders spend their time prioritizing and recognize that doing more does not equate success.
They use the Pareto principle and the three Rs( requirement, return, reward).
18. The law of sacrifice
Sometimes, leaders have to sacrifice themselves to succeed and to gain opportunities.
The higher you go up on the ladder, the more you have to sacrifice.
19. The law of timing
Successful leaders read situations, recognize when to lead and when to take the right action at the right time.
20. The law of explosive growth
Potential leaders are hard to find and to attract but leaders who develop other leaders multiply growth within their organization.
21. The law of legacy
Leaders who leave a legacy lead with tomorrow in mind, make developing other leaders as part of the culture, sacrifice for future success and pass on the torch.
Review
The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow is an easy to read leadership development book.
In The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow, John C. Maxwell makes a list of 21 laws of leadership to help people better themselves and their organization.
These laws are the universal foundation for every area of your life. They can be learnt, be in standalone, have serious consequences, be practiced on a daily basis.
Maxwell has spent most of his life in leadership position. So, he entertains us with uncommon, historical and adventurous examples that everyone can relate to.
Finally, he encourages leaders to learn and go apply what they learnt.
Let me know below what you think about this book!
Favorite quote(s)
Leadership is complicated. It has many facets: respect, experience, emotional strength, people skills, discipline, vision, momentum, timing—the list goes on. As you can see, many factors that come into play in leadership are intangible. That’s why leaders require so much seasoning to be effective.
The good news is that your leadership ability is not static. No matter where you’re starting from, you can get better.
The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader, and then the dream.
MANY PEOPLE TODAY WANT TO CLIMB UP THE CORPORATE LADDER BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THAT FREEDOM AND POWER ARE THE PRIZES WAITING AT THE TOP. THEY DON’T REALIZE THAT THE TRUE NATURE OF LEADERSHIP IS REALLY SACRIFICE.
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5 Inpiring Quotes For Leadership Development
Leadership development aims to provide leaders with the hard and soft skills needed to execute their job within their capacity and within their organization.
Usually, leadership development boosts employee morale, engagement, alignment and productivity.
1. Leaders demonstrate integrity and instill trust
“Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” – SETH GODIN
2. Leaders learn continuously
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” – John F. Kennedy
3. Leaders maintain strong communication skills
“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere.” – Lee Iacocca
4. Leaders possess good decision-making skills
“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt
5. Leaders build healthy relationships
A leader’s attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly than his or her actions. – John C. Maxwell
Last Words Of Advice
There are several leadership programs out there.
It is important that you find the right one for you to gain the ability to inspire, influence, improve your performance and cope with challenges.
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