Inspirational Leadership

There is more to life than to increase its speed
(Mahatma Gandhi)
20078Dieter Langenecker
You are more than you think you are
At the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis outside Vienna, Austria, many years ago, a senior officer from the United Nations closed his presentation by saying, Ive dealt with many different problems around the world, and Ive concluded that there is only one real problem: over the past hundred years, the power that technology has given us has grown beyond anyones wildest imagination, but our wisdom has not. If the gap between our power and our wisdom is not redressed soon, I dont have much hope for our prospects.
Being able to deal with the speed of change in our lives is not about what we already know. Its about our approach to what we dont know. Its about our attitude towards life and living. I believe that attitude leads behaviour. Attitude is the cause; behaviour is the effect. So if we really want to change behaviours, we need to be thinking creatively about how to change attitudes.
The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is
not likely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and

financially, yes, but not structurally and economically.
Peter Drucker, Business 2.0
We believe that if you want high efficiency and productivity, a close cordial relationship with your employees, which leads to high morale, is necessary. Sometimes it is more important to generate a sense of affinity than anything else, and sometimes you must make decisions that are, technically, irrational. You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic has to take a backseat to understanding
Aikito Morita (Sony)
"Everyone has equal rights, but we also all have an equal right to be different." Shimon Peres
It is our feelings about people who we are, what we want and why we think the way we do that are critical
Jan Gunnarson (Hostmanship)
Lead and inspire people. Dont try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Ross Perot
"Motivation is an external, temporary high that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a internal, sustainable glow which *pulls* you forward."
(Thomas Leonard)
The fundamental problem with most businesses is that they are governed by mediocre ideas.
Maximizing the return of invested capital is an example of a mediocre idea. Mediocre ideas don't uplift people. They don't give them something they can tell their children about. They dont create much meaning.
Bill O'Brien (CEO Hanover Insurance)
The most important indicator of successful leadership in any business is the degree to which the team is inspired to move towards a shared vision. Inspiration provides ignition, motivation and the driving energy required for any organization to thrive. Effective leaders establish and maintain high inspiration levels.
Doing so requires vision, planning and achievement as well as faith, trust and work. The inevitable outcome for keeping inspiration levels high for long enough however is success!
Love Your Business
To be a leader you need vision, purpose, energy.

To be a great leader you need to know yourself, your weaknesses, your strengths, your mission in life.
"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way."
Rollo May
In this country, managers think that a fast decision is what counts. If the situation is new, slowing down is necessary. Slow down. Observe. Position yourself. Then act fast and with a natural flow that comes from the inner knowing. You have to slow down long enough to really see whats needed. With a freshness of vision, you have the possibility of a freshness of action, and the overall response on a collective level can be much quicker than trying to implement hasty decisions that arent compelling to people.
Otto Scharmer
Leadership is not primarily based in positions of authority, but somehow this channelling of deep desire to do the right thing for the whole; and then it bubbles up every place and there is no limit on who can contribute in whatever way they can contribute
Peter Senge
Leadership based on wisdom starts with the art to lead yourself.
We can design incentive programs that will motivate; we even can motivate with fear. This is a common practice among many leaders because motivation exploits different levels of power the power of one person to punish or reward another. For the motivator, it is a technique, a means for altering the behaviour of others, a means of exploiting, controlling and manipulating them. It is a self-focused practice, too. When we attempt to motivate, we intend to cause behaviour in them that achieves something we want. When we attempt to motivate, we are not usually intending to serve others in their best interests. At its best, motivation is an attempt to serve others in our best interests. It is this transparently selfish intent that causes cynicism instead of inspiration.
Lance Secretan
Motivation is something we do to someone.

Inspiration is something that is the result of a soulful relationship.
Lance Secretan
When we are motivated, our emotions and behaviour are determined by external powers. When we are inspired, our emotions and behaviours are determined by powers from within.
Lance Secretan
Inspiration is an inner knowing that transcends any external motivation.

Knowing who we each are, and using the wisdom in these discoveries, is how we inspire others.
Lance Secretan
If you inspire, you dont have employees, who just do their job; you work with like-minded people who are business partners. Rosa Say
What compelled followers to dedicate themselves with such passion to the visions of Christ, Buddha, Gandhi, Confucius, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Jefferson, Washington, and Nelson Mandela? They were inspired more than motivated. Martin Luther King Jr. did not say, I have a strategic plan!. And Mother Teresa did not have a quality program she didnt need one.
Lance Secretan
Perhaps our study of leadership has caused us to focus too much energy on the less relevant aspects of leadership the mechanism instead of the essence the sunset data rather than the joy, beauty, and experience of the sunset. After all, leadership is something we live ourselves, rather than do to others.
Lance Secretan
One of the keys in being successful in executing a strategy is that leaders communicate the strategy with passion. Yet to be able to communicate and implement a company vision and strategy with passion, you need to feel passionate about it yourself. In order to feel passionate about it, the vision and the strategy have to be in-line with ones own personal vision. But most leaders fail in this area.
Most Leaders fail, because they have not found an answer to the single-most important question:
What on Earth Am I Here For?
But how can we inspire and lead others if we cant even explain the reason for our own existence in the first place?
If you don't like what you do, you will not create the desired results
If you dont like what you do, dont do it for the rest of your life If you like what you do, you will do it the best way possible
If you want to be a leader, you have to be a real human being. You must recognize the true meaning of life before you can become a great leader. You must understand yourself.
N.N.
Part of the problem is that everyone is in such a hurry. People haven't found meaning in their lives, so they're running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. ..... So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem halfasleep, even when they are busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
From: Tuesdays with Morrie
When we are emotionally mature, we are much better able to solve the two categories of problems that cause much pain, dysfunction and frustration (both personal and organizational). Intrapersonal problems (within ourselves) show up as a lack of confidence, self-doubt, lack of clarity, anxiety, and fear. Interpersonal problems (between ourselves and others) result in conflict, lack of trust, ineffective communication, and, again, lack of clarity.
(Larry Wilson)
Whats important is that we take the time to listen to our own voice. Once we have done that, we understand that few of us are born to a specific profession in a specific business with a specific title, but we all are born as people, people who want to make decisions of their own free will without worrying too much about what others think
Jan Gunnarsson
Searching the byways of your inner self takes time and energy, and isnt something the world exactly encourages. Its a lonely job, but fortunately the means are easily accessible in forms of books, Buddha, your local priest, family, friends, etc. The answers are everywhere. Maybe all it takes is a comment from your seven-year-old child at the dinner table to suddenly open your eyes and allow you to clearly see the world you are caught up in and discover a power that is yours alone.
Jan Gunnarsson
I dont think it is unreasonable to expect those who lead others to have a reasonable perception of themselves. And by that I don't mean who you are in society or that you have good grades and graduated at the top of your class or have worked here and there. No, I am talking about your core, what makes you a person. Superficial judgements made by society and neighbours are one thing. Why some people are more sensitive to these influences than others is due to a number of factors, the most important probably being where you grew up and how you were raised.
The answer to who you are can only be found within yourself, and it is a search that requires a considerable degree of self-confidence. A compass. Because you dont want to get lost and become sick along the way.
How do you go about it? Where will you begin? Where can you begin? I have read a lot of books, written speeches and poems, composed music and worked in various countries. I have been on retreats and lived in silence, studied religions and philosophers, taken outrageously expensive courses together with big shots from around the world who were all searching for the same thing themselves. Im still searching. And I will continue searching. Not that I ever expect to stop and say, Ive made it. I know everything there is to know about myself. Its not going to happen. I keep going because Ive realized that the journey itself is part of my life. Thinking, questioning, believing and being conscious of what I do. That, to me, is living.
First you slow down and look deeply into yourself and the world until you start to be present to whats trying to emerge. Then you move back into the world with a unique capacity to act and create.
N.N.
Ninety percent of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.
Peter Drucker
"Leaders don't just make products and make decisions. Leaders make meaning.
John Seely Brown, Xerox
The Bottleneck is at the Top of the Bottle

Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment in the past, and the greatest reverence for industry dogma?
At the top!
Gary Hamel/Strategy or Revolution/Harvard Business Review
Leadership is a serving relationship with others that inspires their growth and makes the world a better place
Lance Secretan
Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best. The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.
Warren Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (Organizing Genius )
Teach People How to Think, not What to Think
The point of a business is not to make money, but to make stakeholders feel better. However, what distinguishes business from a hobby or another pastime is the money. To be in business you have to deal with the money. Generally making more money and more profit will have the stakeholders feel better. Where this is the case, make more money. However recognise that the business is not making money for the sake of it, but to have people feel better. Never lose sight of this, and dont make money in a way that has the stakeholders feel worse about the business. Manage the flow of money such that you love the business.
Business in a civilized country cannot be based on making money regardless of anything else; that is the attitude of gangsters and mob bosses. The madness needs to stop.
Adrian Savage
Egoism, to me, means doing things at someone elses expense or shifting responsibility to the system and those around you and expecting them to adapt to your need.
Jan Gunnarsson
Capitalism as we know it - materialistic, amoral, relentlessly exhausting the world's natural resources and the people who toil under the system is ultimately unsustainable. For capitalism to have a future, it must change its focus from the single-minded accumulation of material capital, go beyond profit and begin to accumulate "Spiritual Capital" - a sense of wider meaning, the possession of an enliving or inspiring vision, the implementation of fundamental human values, and a deep sense of wider purpose.
There are only three ways to approach anything in life: 1. we can complain about things are. 2. we can be copyfrogs, ignoring or walking away from the issues and relationships that we find painful or unsatisfactory. 3. we can do the nobler thing - we can roll up our sleeves and work to change things.
Lance Secretan
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. Albert Einstein
If you dont like change, youre going to like irrelevance even less.
General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
Do you need more knowledge? Is more information going to save the world, or faster computers, more scientific or intellectual analysis? Is it not wisdom that humanity needs most at this time?
But what is wisdom and where is it to be found? Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart Tolle
"What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place?" - Winston Churchill
When people in leadership positions begin to serve a vision infused with a larger purpose, their work shifts naturally from producing results to encouraging the growth of people who produce results.
Otto Scharmer
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, its the only thing that ever has.
Nick Hanauer, Amazon
The handmaiden of emotional growth is spiritual growth.
Spiritual Growth: - Answering and living the answers to the questions Why am I here? and What is my life about?, - Me to We.
(Larry Wilson)
Emotional and Spiritual Maturity: serving a higher cause, and having the emotional ability to bounce back from defeats and actually grow from them (I cannot fail, I can only learn and grow).
(Larry Wilson)
We are all afraid of being alone

N.N.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose you consider a mighty one, the being a force of nature, rather than a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
Bernhard Shaw
You must be the change you wish to see in the world

Mahatma Gandhi
The Future aint what it used to be

Winnie the Pooh
"There are really only two ways to approach life, as victim or as a gallant fighter, and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a stacked deck. And if you dont decide which way to play with life, it always plays with you. "
Merle Shain
"Courage: the power to let go of the familiar."

- Raymond Linquist
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
- Anonymous

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There is more to life than to increase its speed

You are more than you think you are

The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is

not likely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and

To be a leader you need vision, purpose, energy.

Leadership based on wisdom starts with the art to lead yourself.

Motivation is something we do to someone.

Inspiration is an inner knowing that transcends any external motivation.

What on Earth Am I Here For?

The Bottleneck is at the Top of the Bottle

Teach People How to Think, not What to Think

The handmaiden of emotional growth is spiritual growth.

We are all afraid of being alone

You must be the change you wish to see in the world

The Future aint what it used to be

"Courage: the power to let go of the familiar."

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