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Leadership Isn't About Being Great, Its About Enabling Others To Be Great

As I sipped on my tea at a mentoring session last week, a long term colleague and friend posed a question: "How Can I Be A Great Leader?!"

I gave the question some more thought - with seven words he had really got my mind racing! I finally responded: "Leadership isn't about being great. It's about enabling others to be great."

I've since had the opportunity to reflect on this. What did I mean? How do you enable people to be great, and create 'great teams'?

I've sought to break this down to what I believe are 6 key points, however one of my biggest learning's is that every day is a school day, and this will evolve over time. I continue to learn every single day!

People Make the Difference 

As Jose Mourinho replied when asked about building a successful team, " you can't make an omelette without eggs"

Great people are the true differentiator in any successful business or team. As a leader, it is key you keep your eyes wide open and enable everybody to be the best possible version of 'them'.

Get to know all of the people around you, understand what they want to achieve and help them self-realise what they need to do to 'win'. Then you will see that people become motivated, they have clarity and they have belief, both in you and themselves. Success will follow if you believe in the 'possibility' of people.

Success will follow if you believe in the 'possibility' of people.

 Environment

 Would you go and socialise somewhere that made you unhappy? 

 In fact, lets stretch this.. 

Would you socialise somewhere that didn't excite you, you don't find enjoyable, that you 'don't' want to go to?

Obviously the answer is no - yet many spend upwards of 8 hours a day in a workplace that they are at best ambivalent towards. As a leader, it is key we create an organic environment that it is enjoyable to be in, that fuels others passion to make a difference and gets people excited to come in to work and succeed.

Small acts regularly are always better than the occasional grand gesture. Breakfasts, lunches, walk and talks, sporting events, recognition. Even remembering to greet everyone every day and ask how they are, simple gestures that are often forgotten. Diverse teams will have diverse ideas around what's is enjoyable, so ensure everybody can be involved to foster ideas.

Furthermore, leaders set the tone. Each morning, we need to ensure we walk in and create magic for our teams.

Consistency

As Aristotle's quote tells us, 'excellence is not an act, but a habit, we are what we repeatedly do'.

Im a great believer that consistency is a key trait in great leaders. Those that change their position consistently confuses others and this damages morale.

We have to know what we stand for and be prepared to remember this in the face of challenges. Those that stand for everything, stand for nothing.

'excellence is not an act, but a habit, we are what we repeatedly do'.

Humility and Vulnerability

When things go wrong, weak leaders blame others - their predecessors, their team, their leaders. Everybody bar themselves. However if you're explaining, you're already behind.

Rather, we should be willing to show and share our vulnerability. 

We all make mistakes and sharing these simply displays that we are human! Subsequently we need to highlight our desire to learn from these. It is a sign of strength, not weakness in asking for guidance and support. This tells your team that asking for help is more than just OK. It's often the right step. 

The ability to display humility and our genuine vulnerability authenticates that we are after all 'human.' 

Finally, when the teams wins, victory should be about your people. I still live by the motto to #makeyourpeoplefamous.

"Finally, when the teams wins, victory should be about your people. I still live by the motto to #makeyourpeoplefamous."

Never Give Up

Some days will be be tough. Things will not go the way we expected. However we need to be relentless in moving forward. Resilience really is one of the greatest traits a leader can possess.

When things go wrong, understand why, yet don't dwell on it. Instead focus on how you will ensure you wont make the same mistakes, or how you can learn from this. Own it. Never accept failure, never give up, and do this with a positive mindset

Integrity is Everything

Finally, be guided by your morals. When making tough decisions, ensure they align with your moral compass.

When you have tough conversations, have them with integrity and honesty. Never ignore these as this is fastest route to failure. This is particularly relevant with behaviours.You can give second chances on numbers, but not on values.

If you can look yourself in the mirror each evening, knowing that you've given it your all and you've done the right thing, there really is nothing more you can do.  The time is always right to do what is right.

"The time is always right to do what is right."

Feel free to connect / follow me me on LinkedIn or Twitter @theleadersshipp or@rundmcqueen #theleadershipproject where I love to talk about all things Leadership.

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David McQueenThought Leader in Customer Experience - Leadership - Cultural Transformation - EMBA - Speaker - Featured LinkedIn Author

Goldman Sachs HR Chief: What I say when college student asked 'how I made it';

Success is Personal

I spend a lot of time on college campuses as part of my job. I’m there to recruit, which means I’m there to listen. I hear from students – each of whom has huge ambitions, has already accomplished a lot and has plans to do much more. I meet mathematicians and economists and writers, and their dreams excite me and make me optimistic about tomorrow’s leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs. I leave these schools believing that the future – regardless of whatever uncertainties may exist in our current day-to-day realities – is actually quite bright, full of opportunity and promise.

Despite my best efforts to focus the conversation on them, many students ask to hear about my journey and how I “made it”. I’m always happy to share my own story, but I’m also quick to point out that I don’t believe my version of success will necessarily correspond to someone else’s. Work evolves, technology advances, circumstances change and, of course, people are different. The demands of the modern workforce and economy are certainly not the same as when I started out; they’re not even the same as five years ago. All of this can raise the question – how exactly do I manage my career and get to where I want to be? Over the years, the mentors whom I gained the most from have been those who encouraged me to pursue my passion and build my own path, rather than follow the one they blazed themselves.

With that said, I do believe that there are lessons which can help you on whatever path you choose. And so, as the year comes to a close and I begin to look ahead to 2017 with hope and purpose, I thought I’d share a few pieces of advice:

Success is personal. Don’t waste energy benchmarking yourself against other people. Rather than try to replicate another person’s achievements, determine what is important to you, and take it from there. Part of maturing as a professional is not just defining your goals, but also knowing when you’ve done well. When I think back on my career, I don’t look at promotions for validation – I remember specific projects, people and teams that brought out the best in me.Feedback is not. If you surround yourself only with people who compliment your strengths rather than call out your weaknesses, you are bound to limit yourself. More often than not, it’s your toughest critics who push you towards success. So, when you find someone who tells you the truth about yourself – keep them close.Surround yourself with difference. It’s natural to gravitate towards people who have similar styles, interests and experiences. While this approach can feel safe, over time, it will stifle growth, limit learning and impede innovation. Your best ideas are likely to be borne from conversations and interactions that occur outside of your comfort zone.Pick your spots. You’re not going to be great at everything every single day. Be clear about your priorities – to yourself and those close to you – and know that some days you’ll be the hero at work and some days you’ll be the hero at home. And that’s OK.People remember people. I’ve been fortunate to work alongside highly motivated and highly talented people throughout my career. Many of these folks have been among the best in their respective fields. As I look back now, what I remember most about certain individuals is not the revenue they produced or the titles they held – it’s the interactions that we had and whether our relationship was based on trust, respect and collaboration.

While these lessons have served me well, what I try to emphasize to others is - it’s not about how I made it to “the top” - it’s about what you will do when you get there. At Goldman Sachs, our firm is itself in a period of transition, with new leaders emerging and longstanding ones saying goodbye. Our workforce is nearly 70% millennial - even our latest partner class is composed of 11% millennials, and of course, that number will only increase as the years go by. More and more, our firm is passing into the hands of a new generation, with different expectations for work and different dreams for what our firm can be. And that’s the way it should be. As senior leaders, it’s our job to prepare the next generation. We must teach them the lessons that will help them take on the challenges Goldman Sachs will face ten or fifteen years from now, and empower them to lead us further into the future.

Phoenix Rising

I wonder sometimes if the world would ever lack those that are lacking.


"For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, 'You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.'

Deuteronomy 15:11

"The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have Me."
Mark 14:7

Now, reality just hit me in the face.

From grade school to graduate school, i don't think we can ever find a course, subject, module or topic on "HOW TO KICK POVERTY OUT OF OUR SOCIETY";  We ( Africans/Nigerians) ignore what really matters and we are busy chasing the irrelevant we could not master for decades. Pardon me for being a sociopath; for calling most revered 'Education' irrelevant, i could not just hold back my displeasure because we are just wasting our time educating ourselves and thereby fail to affect our society and make our society great with it. Our failure is indirectly increasing the poverty line/threshold in our society.

In 2014, the most recent year of which data are available, the poverty threshold in the United State of America for a family of four was $24, 230. The official poverty was 14.8 percent. There were 46.7 million people in poverty in the United State then according to the data.

If the poverty threshold for a family of four was  $24, 230  per annum in the United State of America, i wonder what the percentage of people living below that would be in Nigeria:A country with the 11th largest oil reserves in the world, averaging 2.28 million barrels per day (362×10³ m³/d) in 2006). A country with the official minimum wage of #216,000 per annum which is equivalent $681.38801 per annum.

Day after day; even from dawn to dusk, things are still the same. The hard truth remains; no one is going to teach you 'how to overcome poverty'  but yourself. Our political office holders are having fun; increasing the poverty threshold instead of alleviating it. It is now our duty, ours alone; to knock it down and kick it out of our society. Though, it is not going to be easy but, you have to toughen-up. 

Always remember these;

1. Through the pit and the dungeon, Joseph came to the throne
2. Ernest Hemingway said that the world breaks all of us, and we grow stronger in broken places.
3. Our strength grows in weakness
4. Adversity is the breeding ground for miracles 

I promised to be light with this and not get it mix with emotions. so, i stop here for now.