GROW!

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GROW!

• Ten Strategies for Maximizing Your Leadership
  Potential

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Me-First

• People who cannot manage themselves for
• effectiveness, cannot expect to manage their
• associates and subordinates.
• - Peter Drucker

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Strategy 1Self-Awareness

• Strengths Weaknesses
• Motivations
• Interests
• Abilities

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Strategy 2Self-Control

• Take responsibility
• Cultivate personal integrity
• Build on your strengths

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Strategy 3Continuous Learning

• Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
• Learn as if you were to live forever.
• - Mahatma Gandhi

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Strategy 3Continuous Learning

• Continual learning is the key to effective
  leadership . . . We have to think of ways to
  learn and grow every day because when you stop
  growing you start to decay.
• - Mike Krzyzewski

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Strategy 3Continuous Learning

• A person who WONT read has no advantage over
  one who CANT read.
• - Mark Twain

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Strategy 3Continuous Learning

• Eat like a bird,
• poop like an elephant.
• - Guy Kawasaki

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Strategy 4Find a Mentor

• Have the humility to learn from others with more
  experience.

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Strategy 5Try to Fail

• If you are big enough for your dreams,
• then your dreams arent big enough for you.
• - Erwin McManus

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Then-Others

• I start with the premise that the
• function of leadership is
• to produce more leaders,
• NOT more followers.
• - Ralph Nader

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Strategy 6Encouragement

• Keep away from people who belittle your
• ambitions. Small people always do that,
• but the really great make you feel that
• you too can become great.
• - Mark Twain

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Strategy 6Encouragement

• Catch people doing things right.
• - Ken Blanchard

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Strategy 7Be a Mentor

• Share what youve learned with others.

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Strategy 8Trust Others

• Choose trust instead of invulnerability.
• - Patrick Lencioni

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Strategy 9Be Caring

• People dont care how much you know,
• until they know how much you care.
• - John Maxwell

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Strategy 10Serve Others

• Every experiment,
• by multitudes or by individuals,
• that has a sensual and selfish aim will fail . .
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• Only that good profits, which we can taste with
• all doors open, and which serves all men.
• - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Strategy 10Serve Others

• This is the true joy in life,
• The being used up for a purpose recognized by
• yourself as a mighty one, the being a force of
  nature
• instead of a feverish, selfish, little clod of
  ailments. . .
• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the
  whole
• community, and as long as I live,
• it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
• - George Bernard Shaw

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