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January 11, 2013 5:27 PM
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I read a book called 'Who Gets Promoted Who Doesn't and Why" by Donald Asher. In the book, the author gives four position and in the those four positions are management and leadership. He gives a list of skill-sets to each of those position. For example, "Leaders can inspire and Managements can monitors the activities of others" is what I pulled from him. When I return to the statement, "People often think of "leadership" in terms of personality characteristics.", its wonderful that a person is charismatic but that's not going to inspire people but give them a temporary satisfaction. In answering your question, I would say, "no, I'm not a leader in my job".
Trish Sadar's comment,
January 11, 2013 5:45 PM
Dear Anthony, Thank you so much for your insight! You better believe that I will be reading the book that you talked about. I agree with you that leadership is not about being charismatic. Rather, my humble opinion leaders are authentic. Leaders still have to excel at the technical skills. Anthony, can you offer any other must read leadership books?
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Growth doesn't just happen doing the same thing over and over again.
You definitely have to know yourself to grow yourself; the question is what can you do or learn or apply to become a better leader?
The most successful leaders have one thing in common...they are life-long learners. They surround themselves with experts who can help them get to where they want to be faster.
What is your plan to develop yourself now? You have to coach yourself before you can coach your team.
What is your plan to develop your people? Are you as committed to their success as you expect them to be about you and the shared goals?
Please share with us what you are doing so we can all learn from eachother.