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How to Maximize the Seven Levels of Leadership

November 14, 2017

Leaders rise or fall at points of execution and completion.

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7 levels of
leadership:

#1. Believe you can

make a difference.

Roots of belief:

1. Someone saw
something in you that
inspired you to believe
in yourself.
2. Small successes helped
you believe you could
take on bigger
challenges. Belief grows after taking action.
3. Failure and falling short lose their ability to hobble.

#2. Passion for excellence.

1. Dedicate yourself to personal leadership development.

2. Realize pursuit isn’t a ainment. Today’s achievement is tomorrow’s starting point.
3. Acknowledge that you have a narrow band where excellence is easy. Everything else is hard
work.

#3. Dedication to learning.

Master methods of management and personal strategies for leadership.

Tip: Pour your energy into those who are dedicated to pursuing excellence (#2).

#4. Commitment to execution and completion through people.

The practice of leadership is about ge ing things done through others. Practice requires self-control
and self-awareness.

1. Self-control is the urgent need to get things done – combined with the ability to ignore distraction.
2. Self-awareness is recognition of the impact your behaviors and a itudes have on others.
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#5. Humility.

There comes a point when humility is more than a good idea. The higher you go in organizational
life, the more you rely on others.

Arrogant leaders manipulate, meddle, and over-manage. Humble leaders enable, empower, release,
and practice mutual accountability.

#6. Kindness.

1. Kindness flows from humility (#5).

2. Kindness lets others know it’s safe to follow you.

#7. Passion to serve the best interest of others.

One reason leaders become jerks is they haven’t humbly worked through difficulty and adversity.
Disruption, adversity, and disappointment are all connected to commitment to execution and
completion (#4).

The fire of adversity (#4) is an essential opportunity to develop humility. Lack of humility (#5)
accounts for unkind (#6), self-serving leaders (#7).

The last three levels of leadership – humility, kindness, and selfless service – emerge when leaders
successfully wrestle with execution and completion (#4).

How might leaders best navigate the pivotal point of the leadership journey #4?

Category : Humility, Marks of leaders, Personal Growth, Success, Taking others higher
Tags : Growth, Leadership, Leadership Development

4 thoughts on “How to Maximize the Seven Levels

of Leadership”

Tim Glass on November 14, 2017 at 12:48 pm said:

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How might leaders best navigate the pivotal point of the leadership journey #4? If “we are all
commi ed” there should be no obstructions, along the path of the planning and execution the
most likely to occur is someone rewrites the plan to suit themselves.
Goes back to commi ment, are we all in?

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Russell Aday on November 14, 2017 at 4:25 pm said:

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I like to think that Leadership is enabling others to get things done. Leaders are accountable for
purpose, plan, process, people and product, in this order.

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mitchk999 on November 14, 2017 at 4:26 pm said:

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Dan, what’s the mechanism for sustaining belief you can make a difference in the absence of
evidence?

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Paul B. Thornton on November 14, 2017 at 5:19 pm said:

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Leaders provide what’s needed to improve the current situation.

Clarity when there is confusion.

Courage when there is fear.
Decisiveness when there is waffling.

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Openness when there is closed minds.

Hope when there is discouragement.
Action when there is hesitation.

The journey
1. Who am I –what do I believe and value.
2. Learning to diagnose what’s needed to improve the current situation.
3. Finding the courage & confidence to stand up and speak up.
4. Discerning the fine line between doing too much and too li le.

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