Posts

Leadership Inspirations – Fortune Favors the Prepared

/in /by

“You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.”

Harriet Martineau
English writer and philosopher

“Every great man was once a nobody prepared for opportunity.”

Dorothy Tode

Everyone wants to win but only a few are willing to put in the preparation and training time needed to achieve greatness. The pinnacle event we often observe as marking an individual or team’s success represents only a small fraction of the blood, sweat, and tears required to reach that summit.

Do you want to win? The truth lies with the answer to another question… Are you doing everything necessary today to make yourself mentally and physically capable of winning tomorrow?

Are you prepared to achieve greatness?

Leadership Inspirations – Solving Problems

/in /by

StrategyDriven Leadership InspirationsAlbert Einstein is arguably one of the greatest problem solvers of all time. Whether examining a physical phenomenon or business challenge his thoughts on problem solving are timelessly applicable. Below are some of these philosophies:

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

“It takes a higher order of thinking to fix a problem than that which created it.”

and

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.”

Albert Einstein

Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity

Leadership Inspirations – Experience, Experiment, Expectations

/in /by

StrategyDriven Leadership Inspirations“The past is an experience! The present is an experiment! The future is expectations! Use your experience in your experiment to achieve your expectations!”

Anonymous

Leadership Inspirations – Making Mistakes

/in /by

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950)
Irish playwright and the only person to have been awarded both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938)

Leadership Inspirations – Inspiring Leadership

/in /by

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson
American essayist, philosopher, and poet

True leadership is inspirational; motivating individuals to become far more than what they currently are. Leadership is not about coordinating activities, setting deadlines, and reporting status; those activities are the work of managers.

Leadership is visionary, creating a picture of a better alternative tomorrow and then inspiring others to passionately seek that vision with a level of commitment that is often unexplainable. There are instances of this type of leadership all around us, the leadership provided by the brave men and women who in our moment of greatest need do the unimaginable to keep us safe from fire, flood, and those who would do us harm. There are also leaders like Matt Harding, who inspired thousands of people from around the world to join together in the fellowship of the dance to make the video “Where the hell is Matt?”.

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

“Management creates order where there would otherwise be chaos. Leadership inspires the achievement of greatness.”

StrategyDriven Contributors