Are YOU LEADING......

What a conference!
When I get a chance to hear, learn from, watch and interact with successful leaders I always try to get there. Pen and notepad in hand I started hitting the sessions and learning labs at this “Leadership Conference” in Chicago.

Guess, just guess what the number one priority is for any person who is to lead any business, Office, Association, Group or Company according to everyone speaking at this conference.

Do You know what it is, bet you all got it.
Everyone one of you got it didn’t YOU??

The number one priority for every leader, bar none, without exception in every single presentation I listened to-
Personal Fitness level and that of your followers
Yep, that is it.

Now, how much more motivated can we be when we are promoting and delivering what every leader suggests is the number one priority for every leader, in the world.

Let’s lead our business, community and family into being better leaders through personal fitness. Spread the word, build the cause, help everyone.





Bob Woodruff, an ABC news reporter (formerly Attorney) who while reporting to us from Iraq in Jan of 2006, got hit by a roadside bomb.
He lost half of his skull and was in a coma for five weeks. He talked about being a leader in today’s world of journalism. The fight to get to the story of the fight, then the fight to stay alive was his story. How he had to collaborate with others he did not know to get his job done. (sound familiar?)
Awesome!

Ann Compton,
ABC News White House Correspondent through four administrations. The only reporter allowed to go with the President on Air Force One when 911 hit. The leaders in the white house, is her story.




General James L. Campbell,
Training tomorrow’s leaders today. He has a very unique view of how flexible and dispersed leaders should be trained to defend our nation. Not at all what I expected to hear from him.
No iron fist or General Patton style leadership for our future.

NASA, Penn State University, Harvard Business School, Yale school of Business to name a few. Is an amazing group of leaders. Not in the past sense, but in the HERE, the NOW, they are LEADING us. The next generation of, the future of our country and businesses. They inspired me, as well as 7500 other attendees to look at how to get our job done. That is it, the summation of a leader is: He who leads others to succeed.

Are YOU being the leader of your business, your community, your household, yourself??

ARE YOU?

Read these excerpts, the graduation address read the links, watch the power point presentation! Get busy, get inspired and get leading!


This afternoon I get to hear the "Rags to Riches Story" of Christopher Gardner. He is the guy who the new movie "Pursuit of Happiness" is built around, cannot wait! He was homeless and built a fortune, leading people.





Managers typically take care of the inner-workings of the business. They establish systems, create rules and procedures and oversee day-to-day operations.

Leading can be done by a manager of an organization, but it is also a role that can be taken on by others. Leading involves motivating and inspiring people, either directly or indirectly. Leaders are seen as collaborative, visionary and in touch with the needs of a staff. Leaders have a high level of personal involvement in a company or project. They are able to set the tone with their behavior and attitude (leading by example) and influence decisions (credibility and power).

Both skill sets—management and leadership—are needed to achieve organizational goals. Depending on the size of an organization, management and leadership roles may be carried out by the same person, or by multiple managers who carry out the two roles.

Source: Steve Robbins - “The Difference Between Managing and Leading”,www.entrepreneur.com





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What is a leader? Leaders are visionaries who energize others. They stress relationships, values and commitment. Leaders are unsatisfied with the status quo and create visions of what could be. Although some are charismatic, many are humble, quiet, and persistent.
The best leaders have an attitude of service and humility. They strive to improve situations and they approach their efforts with a ferocious resolve…Change evokes anxiety and as John Kenneth Galbraith said: "All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxieties of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."…. Leadership skills are not inherited and people with many different personalities have been great leaders. I believe that each of you can, and should, develop your leadership skills through introspection, study, experience, risk taking, and emulation of others……Read the whole address at:
http://www.bcm.edu/about/oop/feinberg_address.cfm