Most people believe that the key to successful leadership is influence, not authority. Do you agree? The answer to that question, it seems, lies in whether the goal is to get others to work from a place of compliance or from a place of commitment which underlines the difference between influential leadership and authoritative leadership.
Working within an influential leadership model, committed employees will give up discretionary time to solve problems, serve customers, and think creatively. On the other hand, people working under command and control, as we more commonly know it will only work to achieve compliance, doing only what needs to be done to get by.
As a leader you must realise that every decision you make influences your next five decisions. Fortunately, great leaders are made, not born.
Maximise your effectiveness by emulating these words of wisdom that will motivate you in achieving your goals and overcoming your fears:
- Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs — Farrah Gray
- Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence — Unknown
- proverb is to speech what salt is to food — Arabic Proverb
- Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly — Langston Hughes
- Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent — Eleanor Roosevelt
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light — Plato
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run — Babe Ruth
- If I had six hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first four hours sharpening the axe — Abraham Lincoln
- If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough — Oprah Winfrey
- I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination — Jimmy Dean
- Believe you can and you’re halfway there — Theodore Roosevelt
- Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover — Mark Twain
- To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart — Eleanor Roosevelt
- Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears — Les Brown
- Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve — Unknown
- I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions — Stephen Covey
- When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it — Henry Ford
- The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any — Unknown
- It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light — Unknown
- Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant — Robert Louis Stevenson
- The only way to do great work is to love what you do — Steve Jobs
- Change your thoughts and you change your world — Unknown
- The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me — Ayn Rand
- Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck — Dalai Lama
- You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have — Maya Angelou
- I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear — Rosa Parks
- I would rather die of passion than of boredom — Vincent Van Gogh
- A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new — Unknown
- If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else — Booker T. Washington
- Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless — Unknown
- Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart — Ancient Indian Proverb
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world — Unknown
- The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone — Ronald Reagan
- Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear — George Addair
- Nothing will work unless you do — Maya Angelou
- I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples — Mother Teresa
- What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality — Plutarch
- Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway — John Wayne
- Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm — Winston Churchill
- It always seems impossible until it’s done — Nelson Mandela
- Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential — John Maxwell
- Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are no traffic jams along the extra mile — Roger Staubach
- Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning — Gloria Steinem
- Stealing someone else’s words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own — Peter Anderson
- The Book of Proverbs are the cream of a nation’s thought — Unknown
- Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it — Charles Swindoll
- The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity — Amelia Earhart
- When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy”. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life — John Lennon
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