What makes a leader?

I have been thinking about how I can become better in a leadership capacity.
Like anything we can always improve.
This is a list that I like to use and reflect on and ask how am I measuring against them.

• Personal initiative.
• The adoption of a definite major purpose.
• A motive to inspire continuous action in pursuit of a definite major purpose.
• A Master mind alliance through which you may acquire the power to attain your definite purpose.
• Self-reliance in proportion to the scope and object of your major purpose.
• Self-discipline sufficient to insure mastery of the head and the heart, and to sustain your motives until they have been realized.
• Persistence, based on the will to win.
• A well-developed imagination, controlled and directed.
• The habit of reaching definite and prompt decisions.
• The habit of basing opinions on known facts instead of relying on guesswork.
• The habit of going the extra mile.
• The capacity to generate enthusiasm at will, and to control it.
• A well-developed sense of details.
• The capacity to take criticism without resentment.
• Familiarity with the ten basic motives that inspire all human action.
• The capacity to concentrate your full attention upon one task at a time.
• Willingness to accept full responsibility for the mistakes of subordinates.
• The habit of recognizing the merits and abilities of others.
• A positive mental attitude at all times.
• The habit of assuming full responsibility for any job or task undertaken.
• The capacity for applied faith.
• Patience with subordinates and associates.
• The habit of following through with any task once begun.
• The habit of emphasizing thoroughness instead of speed.
• Dependability, the only requirement of leadership that can be stated with one word – but no less important to success on that account.

Food for thought.

Fraser

New Year= New Attitude?

Read this and thought it was worth sharing...

Take Control of your Attitude by Jim Rohn

We all have tremendous potential. Each of us has the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a desired result. But the one thing that determines the level of our potential, produces the intensity of our activity and predicts the quality of the result we receive is our attitude.

Attitude determines how much of the future we are allowed to see. It decides the size of our dreams and infl uences our determination when we are faced with new challenges. No other person on earth has dominion over our attitude. People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us, or providing us with negative sources of infl uence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily surrender that control.

No one else “makes us angry.” We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. What someone else may have done is irrelevant. We choose; not they. They merely put our attitude to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious, then we have failed the test. If we condemn ourselves by believing that we are unworthy, then again, we have failed the test.

If we care at all about ourselves, then we must accept full responsibility for our own feelings. We must learn to guard against those feelings that have the capacity to lead our attitude down the wrong path, and to strengthen those feelings that can lead us confi dently into a better future.

If we want to receive the rewards the future holds in trust for us, then we must exercise the most important choice given to us as members of the human race by maintaining total dominion over our attitude. Our attitude is an asset, a treasure of great value that must be protected accordingly.

When you have the right attitude, you can do the remarkable.

When you recognize your gifts, you can change anything for yourself that you wish to change. If you don’t like how something is going for you, change it. If something isn’t enough, change it. If something doesn’t suit you; change it. If something doesn’t please you, change it. You don’t ever have to be the same after today. If you don’t like your present address, change it—you’re not a tree!

Having the right attitude is an essential prerequisite for success and happiness. The right attitude is one of the fundamentals of the good life. That is why we must constantly examine our feelings about our role in the world and about our possibilities for achieving our dreams.

It is our emotional nature that governs most of our daily conduct in our personal and business world. It is the emotional aspect of our experiences that determines our behavior. How we feel about life’s events is a powerful force that can either freeze us in our tracks or inspire us to take immediate action on any given day. With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

Have a great new Year and aspire to greatness.....