Drucker “Leadership is responsibility not money, fame, and power.”

Leaders of the 21st century you will be able to…
Align. Around people around mission and values.
Empower. Unleash their power.
Serve. Leaders are there to serve not be served.
Collaboration. The world’s problems are too big to be solved by ourselves.

6 Steps to becoming an empowering leader
Understand purpose of your leadership.
Gain self awareness. Get out and do it, get feedback, go through period self reflection.
Find your values.
Follow your motivations and capabilities.
Build support team around you.
Live an integrated life. Be the same person in all environments.

Follow your heart not your clock.
At the end of the your life what will you tell your grandkids what when they aske “What did you do to make a difference?”

I appreciate the way George acknowledges the fact that there are many different personality types that become great leaders. It really is refreshing to me as I have been exposed to for example much of Jack Welch’s books which seem to portray a very narrow profile of the kind of personality mix that is takes to be a leader.

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