The words below sit on my desk as a daily reminder of why I get up every morning and embrace each day with passion and purpose. They are by Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) the American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence that Picasso had on the modern visual arts.
"There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost."
The purpose of everyone's life is to be the best one-of-a-kind that we can be.
A key purpose of leadership is to inspire people to bring their uniqueness to their work.
I define leadership as the art of inspiring people to bring everything remarkable that they are to everything they do.
Leadership usually falters without management.
For many management is still about planning, directing, organising, and controlling people.
I believe that kind of management to be a hangover from the industrial revolution and we all have a headache as a result.
Management for me is actually the practice of making it simple for people to bring everything remarkable that they are to everything they do.
Leadership is all about people and management all about systems and processes.
People can be lead. They can't be managed.
Most of the challenges in our world today have much to do with trying to manage people and a failure to lead them.
Be the kind of leaders other can’t help but follow. This begins with you being the only one of you in all of time.
My paper on the 3 essential roles of remarkable leadership will help you. Please download it here.
Be the difference you want to see in the world
Ian
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