BRIAN TRACY says “Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people”.
Leadership is a popular topic today. Many people have different views about it. And many books have been written on this topic say “The Agile Manager’s Guide to Leadership” by “WALTER
J.WADSWORTH”.
According to ROBIN SHARMA Leadership has nothing to do with the title on your business card or the size of your office. Leadership is not about how much money you make or the clothes you wear. Leadership is a philosophy. It's an attitude. It's a state of mind. And it's available to each one of you reading this.. You don’t need the charisma or communication skills of former U.S. President Ronald Regan or Sam Walton to lead.
Good leaders can be quiet, gruff, friendly, talkative, and shy or any other human trait you can name including those you have right now. For e.g. look at one of history’s great business leaders, Henry Ford. If you have ever seen a film clip of Ford, you know for firsthand how hard it was for him to speak to a group of people.
By now you might be wondering then what the characteristics of a leader. Well to mention a few they are dynamic daring dashing planner’s motivator’s critical thinkers and so on. I was reading a couple of books on this topic and I thought that these 5 P’s of leadership will definitely help you all become good leaders in your domain of work
The 1st P is Pay Attention to What’s Important: Time management courses, strategy books, and management gurus all will tell you that there’s lot that’s not really important. Your job as a leader is to concentrate on what’s most important so that it gets taken care of. Then let the rest of the stuff take care of itself. Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian Economist and Sociologist in the late 19th century. He formulated something he called "The Law of the Unequal Distribution of Results." You probably know it as the 80/20 rule. All the 80/20 rules says is that there’s 20% of the stuff you do that gets you 80% of the results. The trick is finding that 20%. Once you’ve found it you then have to pay attention to it. Therefore a leader's mind is like an eagle's eye always ready to catch that 20%.
The 2nd P is Praise What You Want to Continue: Praise is your best training tool. In technical terms, praise is a positive consequence that follows a positive action. It’s a reward for something done right. Use praise to get people to continue to do things or to take positive action. For e.g. praise your colleagues or friends whenever they do a good turn. This will boost their energy to do more number of good turn’s .So "Praise is a beautiful rose that must be given to everyone.
The 3rd P is Punish What You Want to Stop: Punishment is the mirror image of praise. It’s a negative consequence that follows negative behavior. As the saying goes “the good shall be rewarded and the unjust shall be punished in proportion to their deeds." Punishment – negative consequences – is the tool you use to get people to stop stuff. It was Mark Twain who said, "A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won’t sit on a cold stove either.
The 4th P is Pay For the Results : You Want one of my friends was managing distribution and customer service centers He happened to compliment one of the customer service reps. She immediately turned around to him and said, "Don’t just tell me, show me, payday is Friday." Pay is one of the tangible ways you can reward people for doing good stuff. It’s another form of praise in visible, tangible form. Don’t limit your thinking about pay to just money, though. Pay people with time off, recognition, choice assignments, small gifts, and special bonuses to encourage the behavior you want. Corporate travel agent Rosenbluth International for e.g. has a single guiding value: Put employees first. CEO Hal Rosenbluth even wrote a book called “The customer comes second”. The idea is that if you keep your people happy, they’ll keep customers happy.
The 5th P is Promote People Who Deliver the Results You Want: This one just makes sense. The problem is that lots of organizations forget about it. They maintain reward and promotion systems that reward the old behavior, even while they’re trumpeting the new behavior in memo’s, meetings, and executive retreats. Always “Promote People Who Deliver the Results You Want” for e.g. I am a national level basket ball player. I played for my school team in main 5. I helped them win a lot of trophies in many tournaments. During the last 2 yrs of schooling I was made the captain of the team. They had promoted me since I delivered the results they wanted
If you apply these 5P's of leadership i.e. "to pay attention to what’s important, praise what you want to continue, punish what you want to stop, pay for the results you want, and promote the people who deliver those results" in your day to day life I am sure you all will become a leader like "Dr Ralph C Smedley & GANDHIJI " one day or the other.
In the words of BRIAN TRACY “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best”
sayonaara
Leadership is a popular topic today. Many people have different views about it. And many books have been written on this topic say “The Agile Manager’s Guide to Leadership” by “WALTER
J.WADSWORTH”.
According to ROBIN SHARMA Leadership has nothing to do with the title on your business card or the size of your office. Leadership is not about how much money you make or the clothes you wear. Leadership is a philosophy. It's an attitude. It's a state of mind. And it's available to each one of you reading this.. You don’t need the charisma or communication skills of former U.S. President Ronald Regan or Sam Walton to lead.
Good leaders can be quiet, gruff, friendly, talkative, and shy or any other human trait you can name including those you have right now. For e.g. look at one of history’s great business leaders, Henry Ford. If you have ever seen a film clip of Ford, you know for firsthand how hard it was for him to speak to a group of people.
By now you might be wondering then what the characteristics of a leader. Well to mention a few they are dynamic daring dashing planner’s motivator’s critical thinkers and so on. I was reading a couple of books on this topic and I thought that these 5 P’s of leadership will definitely help you all become good leaders in your domain of work
The 1st P is Pay Attention to What’s Important: Time management courses, strategy books, and management gurus all will tell you that there’s lot that’s not really important. Your job as a leader is to concentrate on what’s most important so that it gets taken care of. Then let the rest of the stuff take care of itself. Vilfredo Pareto was an Italian Economist and Sociologist in the late 19th century. He formulated something he called "The Law of the Unequal Distribution of Results." You probably know it as the 80/20 rule. All the 80/20 rules says is that there’s 20% of the stuff you do that gets you 80% of the results. The trick is finding that 20%. Once you’ve found it you then have to pay attention to it. Therefore a leader's mind is like an eagle's eye always ready to catch that 20%.
The 2nd P is Praise What You Want to Continue: Praise is your best training tool. In technical terms, praise is a positive consequence that follows a positive action. It’s a reward for something done right. Use praise to get people to continue to do things or to take positive action. For e.g. praise your colleagues or friends whenever they do a good turn. This will boost their energy to do more number of good turn’s .So "Praise is a beautiful rose that must be given to everyone.
The 3rd P is Punish What You Want to Stop: Punishment is the mirror image of praise. It’s a negative consequence that follows negative behavior. As the saying goes “the good shall be rewarded and the unjust shall be punished in proportion to their deeds." Punishment – negative consequences – is the tool you use to get people to stop stuff. It was Mark Twain who said, "A cat who sits on a hot stove will never sit on a hot stove again. But he won’t sit on a cold stove either.
The 4th P is Pay For the Results : You Want one of my friends was managing distribution and customer service centers He happened to compliment one of the customer service reps. She immediately turned around to him and said, "Don’t just tell me, show me, payday is Friday." Pay is one of the tangible ways you can reward people for doing good stuff. It’s another form of praise in visible, tangible form. Don’t limit your thinking about pay to just money, though. Pay people with time off, recognition, choice assignments, small gifts, and special bonuses to encourage the behavior you want. Corporate travel agent Rosenbluth International for e.g. has a single guiding value: Put employees first. CEO Hal Rosenbluth even wrote a book called “The customer comes second”. The idea is that if you keep your people happy, they’ll keep customers happy.
The 5th P is Promote People Who Deliver the Results You Want: This one just makes sense. The problem is that lots of organizations forget about it. They maintain reward and promotion systems that reward the old behavior, even while they’re trumpeting the new behavior in memo’s, meetings, and executive retreats. Always “Promote People Who Deliver the Results You Want” for e.g. I am a national level basket ball player. I played for my school team in main 5. I helped them win a lot of trophies in many tournaments. During the last 2 yrs of schooling I was made the captain of the team. They had promoted me since I delivered the results they wanted
If you apply these 5P's of leadership i.e. "to pay attention to what’s important, praise what you want to continue, punish what you want to stop, pay for the results you want, and promote the people who deliver those results" in your day to day life I am sure you all will become a leader like "Dr Ralph C Smedley & GANDHIJI " one day or the other.
In the words of BRIAN TRACY “The future belongs to the competent. Get good, get better, be the best”
sayonaara
well written dude!!!
ReplyDeletebt thr is a point i disagree wid u ... a good leader has a certain charm n charisma tht goes wid him/her.. thts one of the elements which make d general masses luk upto em !!
@ dutchess: thnk u.but the charm & charisma of d good leader should be apt cos there r lot of ppl trying to ape them wat say?? aneways it would be helpful if u could tell me ur real name n thnk u once again 4 commenting
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