Leadership That Works

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Contents

1 What Is Important................................12 Do You Have A Dream..............................73 Leadership Styles................................114 Great Leaders....................................635 Counseling.......................................776 Goals............................................917 Health...........................................978 Character........................................1039 The Bible........................................11910 Philosophical Point Of View.....................12711 Religious Extreme Terrorism.....................16112 Rethink Your Thinking...........................18113 Ideas...........................................207Source Notes.......................................223

Chapter One

What do we mean by LEADERSHIP THAT WORKS, AND Faith vs. Reason? What are the most important issues in your life? I see strategy leadership as what is important to you as a person within our society. We live in a complex society and cultural conditions affect the nature of an individual or community. It's also the study of society and of individual relationships in and to society, to include sociology, psychology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, and the environment in which we live. Are you a person of God? Does God exist now or in our past? If you believe in God, is God dead or alive? Therefore, I have decided to write about one person's view of strategy leadership. I will discuss many issues in this book that are important to strategy leadership and just plain getting things done. It's important that we find ways to improve upon activities as we travel though life.

BLUF. What is BLUF? BLUF is Bottom Line Up Front. At the end of the day, were you successful? Did you obtain your goals and objectives? Did you hit your 25 meter target? True leadership is not about your position, it's all about the action that you took or did not take. Did you get done today the goals and objectives that were the most important to you? If you did, great job, keep up the good work. If you fell short, you must ask yourself why? What can you do to get better for tomorrow? Have a plan, make a plan, and put that plan in action. Find a way, get the important things in your life done; just get it done. Make them a priority as you go about your daily life. BLUF, you will become happier with yourself and your overall life itself will improve.

Strategy implementation may be the most important factor shaping management today. How do we measure strategy? Is our organization decentralized and closer to the customer - customer driven? Become a more customer focused organization, one that understands its customers better and deliver what they want. The ability to execute strategy can be more important than the strategy itself. Intangible assets have become the major sources of competitive advantage. Experience has repeatedly shown that the single most important condition for success is ownership. We will discuss what true ownership is all about and how to obtain it.

A strategy map is the cornerstone, shared service synergies, strategic learning and strategic awareness. Individual strategies must be linked and integrated. The competitive landscape is constantly changing, so strategies must constantly evolve to reflect shifts in opportunities and threats. Strategy must be a continual process. It requires that all employees understand the strategy and conduct their day to day business in a way that contributes to the success of that strategy. The first job is to make the need for change obvious to all; importance of teamwork in executing strategy. In many cases you can link personal objectives to the strategy. Learning and growth are priorities to create a climate that supports organizational change, innovation and growth.

To be a great leader, you must have a dream. Take your personal dream plan very seriously. If you spend the time well and expend the effort, it will change your life forever. Being very honest with yourself, do you have the brains, the aptitude and the talent to make your dream come true? Focus on the dream. Make a habit of keeping a copy of your action plan with you at all times. Life is too short to be saddled with doing something you don't like. People must realize that they are in their most productive years and that it's all going to end someday. Are you old or young? Old or young, you have today and at the end of the day, it's gone, never to return again. Therefore, what is your focus today? Are you working toward the most important issues in your life?

Attitude is a little thing that helps you get the most out of life and be successful regardless of what the odds might be. The only thing winners are up against is their own attitude. Attitude is very important for a leader, because attitude is everything. By having a personal mission statement helps us to have the right attitude. Our outlook must be that the glass is always half-full and never half-empty. We must focus on a strong finish. However, be realistic about strengths and weaknesses. Remember that little changes and a positive attitude can make a huge difference in regards to health and wellness.

Our society may over use the term leadership. There are three basic styles of leadership; directing, participating and delegating. Choosing the correct style of leadership requires you to understand the four factors of leadership. Anyone can do almost anything with unlimited resources. The true leader finds a way to do great things with limited resources. Leadership is action, not position. No matter what kind of leader you have been in the past, you can decide to be a new and different leader, a better leader tomorrow. A great leader will provide purpose, direction and motivation. The four major factors of leadership are always present and affect the actions we should take and when we should take them. They are the led, the leader, the situation and communications.

Counseling is a fundamental responsibility of every leader. Leaders at all levels have a responsibility to assist and develop subordinates. Counseling requires that a leader's actions demonstrate knowledge, understanding, judgment and ability. Of a leader's traits or characteristics in promoting effective counseling, a caring attitude is the most important. There are as many approaches to counseling as there are counselors. The approaches used in military counseling are the directive approach at one extreme, the nondirective approach at the other and the combined approach in the middle.

A great leader must be able to set goals and have good time management skills. Goals give a sense of direction and purpose, force us to plan ahead and give us a clear understanding of what is expected. Self-disciplined people know how to set a goal, define the steps to accomplish the goal, and take each step, even though each one might be more painful than the one before. Such planning refreshes your outlook and reinforces your determination to move forward. You are happier in life if you know what your goals are. Find out what you really want out of life. Make a game plan for your dream. Map out a plan to make it happen and then go out into the world and get it done.

Stay healthy. Only then do you have the equipment, the brainpower and physical power necessary to recognize, analyze and manage problems. Get plenty...