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    100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader: The Courageous Leader's Pocket Companion
    100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader: The Courageous Leader's Pocket Companion
    100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader: The Courageous Leader's Pocket Companion
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    100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader: The Courageous Leader's Pocket Companion

    By Martina Sprague

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    Who becomes a leader? The leader is set apart from the rest; you are in your position because you have worked hard and are committed, and because you have certain qualities that prove helpful to the workers and the company. At least this is the way it is supposed to be. But in reality the people choose their leader regardless of his or her title. You don’t become a leader by placing a “supervisor” patch on your shirt; you become a leader by exercising a set of qualities that make others want to follow.

    This book is an easy reference that the leader can use every day to seek inspiration on a number of topics, including leader integrity, communication, establishing and maintaining vision, creating a winning team, delegation of duties, and critique and evaluation.

    Good leadership requires maintenance. It is not enough to tell your team what you want them to do. You must also follow up, give feedback, and give each member an opportunity to voice his or her concerns. To have a positive and lasting impact on the members of your team, you must respect the fact that people are different. When you and your team meet this way, you may feel invincible. This is what makes consistent victory possible. There is no greater feeling!

    This concise study makes an excellent gift to the aspiring and field tested leader alike. Some of the material is excerpted from Leadership, It Ain’t Rocket Science, also by Martina Sprague.
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartina Sprague
    Release dateDec 30, 2014
    ISBN9781507069318
    100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader: The Courageous Leader's Pocket Companion
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    Martina Sprague

    Martina Sprague grew up in the Stockholm area of Sweden. She has a Master of Arts degree in Military History from Norwich University in Vermont and has studied a variety of combat arts since 1987. As an independent scholar, she writes primarily on subjects pertaining to military and general history, politics, and instructional books on the martial arts. For more information, please visit her website: www.modernfighter.com.

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      100 Ways to Become a Better, Prouder, Smarter, Stronger, and More Respected Leader - Martina Sprague

      INTRODUCTION

      Who becomes a leader? The leader is set apart from the rest; you are in your position because you have worked hard and are committed, and because you have certain qualities that prove helpful to the workers and the company. At least this is the way it is supposed to be. But in reality people choose their leader regardless of his or her title. You don’t become a leader by placing a supervisor patch on your shirt; you become a leader by exercising a set of qualities that make others want to follow.

      When you become a leader, you also embrace the responsibility that comes with your title.  Because of your position, people will look up to you and ask your advice. They expect you to know a little more than they do; they expect you to be trustworthy and helpful. If you play your cards right, you can have a drastic effect on the people you lead. And when you affect this base positively, it will become stable and energetic and ready to lift your company into world class status. When you step past what you thought possible, when you succeed at motivating others, they will look forward to coming to work. And when leaving at the day’s end, they will feel energized and look forward to coming back tomorrow.

      This book is an easy reference that the leader can use every day to seek inspiration on a number of topics, including leader integrity, communication, establishing and maintaining vision, creating a winning team, delegation of duties, and critique and evaluation. The suggestions are arranged alphabetically and not in any particular order of importance.

      The author firmly believes that any leadership model requires an intellectual pursuit that exceeds the cookbook for success approach. This book admittedly expresses much in a few words and therefore requires considerable thought and self-reflection, which may leave the reader curious and in search of more detailed information. To learn about the reasoning behind the suggestions, and how and why the author reached the conclusions she did, she recommends that the reader picks up a copy of Leadership, It Ain’t Rocket Science: A Critical Analysis of Moving With the Cheese and Other Motivational Leadership Bullshit, which is a serious and in-depth study of leadership from an analytical rather than motivational angle, and is meant to stir at least some controversy and incite the reader to throw off the yoke of ambiguity when attempting to establish a leadership approach that works with his or her team.

      Character is simply habit long continued.

      —Pliny the Younger (c. 62-112 CE), Roman writer and governor

      ACCEPTING YOUR FINDINGS

      If you implement plans and procedures without truly understanding the underlying reasons, you will lose the trust of your team, be predestined for failure, and later try to save face when your team has thrashed you.

      1. Asking pertinent questions is a prerequisite for gaining insight into leadership.

      2. Those who fail to ask questions cannot lead others, because even if they know where they want to go, they will not know how to get there, what happens if they take the wrong fork in the road, or how to correct problems.

      3. When analyzing a problem, learn to distinguish between what you see and what you wish to see. Be ready to accept your findings even if they are not what you wish them to be.

      TIP: Never say no thanks to information. Accept what is handed to you, and decide later which parts you will take to heart and which you will discard.

      ACTING ON THE OBVIOUS

      The difficulty lies not in stating the obvious but in bringing the obvious to action.

      1. When the outcome of an act conforms to predictions, it is easy to fall into the trap of believing that the principle used to achieve success will hold true in all situations.

      2. The analytically driven leader will examine also those cases where the particular principle failed to achieve success.

      3. The checklist approach (or cookbook for success often promoted as a quick and easy way to be a good leader) reduces a profoundly human activity such as leadership to a science, and provides a means for avoiding critical thinking.

      TIP: Good leaders need broad horizons, which is all the more reason to develop critical thinking skills, discuss unpleasant facts, and avoid falling in lockstep with the many popular slogans that are so frequently recited in books and at leadership seminars.

      AGREEING ON THE PREMISES

      The danger with taking a scientific approach to leadership is that the use of scientific principles presupposes a leadership style that is based on specific techniques and thus remains unaltered by innovation.

      1. The fundamental principle of logic states that if the premises (the examples that set it up) are true, the conclusion will automatically follow.

      2. But if the given information (the premises) is incorrect or misleading, setting up an equation for leadership and following it blindly, because science says it is supposed to work, predestines one for failure.

      3. When setting up examples in logic argumentation for the purpose of leadership, even if the premises are true the conclusion may NOT automatically follow.

      TIP: Before accepting the science, make an effort to determine the validity of the premises and weed out any information that is insufficient

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