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the ten attitudes for leadership

development leaders are very unique

people they have a very simple

distinction and that is their thinking

is different leaders do not think like

followers leaders used to be followers

all of them if you want to be an

impactful personality you have to

develop certain types of thinking and

perceptions that change the way you see

yourself and see the world I call this

the spirit of leadership now there are

only two animals on the planet that the

creator identified himself with I've

read hundreds of books and that's my

commitment last twenty years I've been

reading four books a month that gives

you an idea of how much reading I do

because if you're going to become

influence in the world you have to be a

reader and when I read the Bible I was

shocked to find that there are two

animals that the Creator identified

himself with the first one is the ego

and the second animal is the lion and

when I identified those two animals as

his favorite to identify himself with I

recognized I better study these two

animals because if he is the leader of

the universe and I want to be a leader

on earth I better find out the nature of

these animals and also the app attitude

of these animals and I discovered that

both of them are the kings of their

domain the Eagle is the king of the bird

Kingdom and the lion is the king of the

animal kingdom well I want to talk about

the lion today even though I can do a

session on the ego which is very

important

but I'll talk a little bit about the

lion the lion has what I call the spirit

of leadership and this word spirit here

is referring to attitude

a leader has a attitude that makes him

or her different from followers and the

lion exhibits that attitude we have to

cultivate the same attitudes that the

lion has because the lion apparently has

been given the same attitudes that God

himself identifies with and he put it in

these creatures and apparently you and I

are supposed to be the king of the

animal kingdom the rulers of all animals

so obviously we have some we're trapped

on the inside these same potential

attitudes now the lion is the king of

the jungle but the lion to me is a great

source of encouragement to all of us

number one the lion is not the tallest

animal in the jungle

number two the lion is not the largest

animal in the jungle number three the

lion is not the heaviest animal in the

jungle number four the lion is not the

smartest animal or the most intelligent

animal in the jungle and yet

the lion is the king you don't need to

be intelligent you don't need to be

smart you don't need to have a certain

height you don't need to have a certain

weight you don't need to have any kind

of advantage and yet you can be the

leader now what's the main thing that

shocked about the lion is that the lion

is not larger than the giraffe bigger

than the elephant or heavier than the

hippo he got a smart as the hyena or the

snake and yet when he shows up they all

run away the lion therefore cancels all

of your excuses for not becoming a

leader what makes the lion so unique an

army of sheep led by a lion will always

defeat an army of lions led by a sheep

because leadership can transform cowards

into

violent warriors why would a lion become

the king of the jungle when he has all

of those limitations he's not the

tallest not the strongest not the

smartest not the heaviest not the most

intelligent but yet he runs things the

lion is the king of the jungle because

of one word attitude the lion has a

different attitude that makes every

animal afraid of him now we don't want

to lead by fear but it does take respect

for you to become a leader when I use

the word fear in the jungle we're

talking about respect the elephant

respects the lion the hyenas respect the

lion they the giraffes they respect the

lion what makes these massive animals

respect such a small cat the attitude is

the difference for example a lion will

see an elephant and the thing that

counts of his mind

won't worry lunch now the elephant is 10

times the size of the lion probably 50

times heavier and has more power one

stump of his feet could destroy the lion

but when the lion sees the elephant he

doesn't look at size and weight and

strength and power he looks at lunch I

could eat this thing and he acts the way

he thinks you see the size is not the

problem the weight of the elephant is

not as concerned what makes him act is

the way he thinks and because he thinks

he can eat the elephant he attacks him

leadership attitude now here's another

amazing mystery the elephant is larger

bigger stronger more powerful heavier

and more intelligent and yet when the

elephant sees the lion one word comes to

mind

eita the elephant is controlled by the

way he thinks he thinks that he is lunch

therefore his size is weight his power

his might his his authority

is a victim of the way he thinks it

doesn't matter how big you are how

intelligent you are how many degrees you

get it's your mind that keeps you small

and it doesn't matter how small you are

or how an unintelligent you may seem to

be or how much you don't have it's your

mind that makes you the leader attitude

the difference between a leader and a

follower is attitude why because it is

unique attitudes that distinguish

leaders from followers they think

differently and that's because attitudes

produce certain behaviors and those

behaviors stretch the leader beyond

their limitations of the norm in other

words it is the thinking of the person

that makes them see circumstances

differently how do you think write this

down

attitude is a product of belief this is

very important to develop your

leadership attitude as a product of

belief you cannot have an attitude

beyond your belief so your attitude

comes from your belief system the lion

is the king because of what he believes

about himself and what he believes about

the elephant and the giraffe he believes

that they are lunch and he believes he

can eat them his belief system controls

the whole situation when they meet I was

born in a house on four rocks two

bedrooms eleven kids one mother one

father one bedroom for my mom and dad

the other for my Seven Sisters and of

course the boy said that finds nowhere

to sleep

I remember sleeping on a mattress on the

floor I've never seen him one time when

I'm on a mat and that she never kept the

mosquitoes out all around me was poverty

but we didn't know that cuz everybody

was poor the only way you know you're

poor is letting me meet a rich person

and then I was sleeping on the floor

wonderful family they loved me beloved

one of my prayers loved us we loved them

he had a great family but we didn't have

much and every opportunity was around me

to think negative I was on the other

side of it alcoholics all over the place

and I remember my mother and father

would tell us things to to fix our

belief system they would say you can do

anything you want to do something and

they said that when I sleeping on the

floor they were working on my belief

system and then they taught us the Bible

now I don't know about you on your

belief but the Bible but the Bible made

me what I am today so don't you talk bad

about the Bible and if you don't believe

in the Bible that's okay

I'm doing just fine believe me and the

Bible helped me become what I am but it

was that book that checked my thinking

Ephesians 3 verse 20

don't you laugh at the Bible the word

said now under him who is able to do

exceedingly abundantly above far beyond

all you can ever ask think or imagine

according to the power that worketh

within you I went from a deaf student to

an A student in one semester because of

my belief system I graduated here boy it

was my one belief system no one can live

beyond the limits of their belief so if

you want to live beyond what you're

living now you have to change your

belief system leaders are born when you

have the discovery of a new belief

system the secret to anyone rising is

what happens in their belief system your

life is what you think it should be

that's exactly what you are right now

you are what you thought you should be

and if you don't like who you are you

got to change what you think you should

be that's how leaders are born no amount

of training and leadership skills or

management methods or titles no amount

of promotion or associations with rich

people or smart people can ever

substitute for the right attitude know

something for it as a matter of fact

your leadership development is

determined by number one your perception

of who you are number two by why you

think you exist and number three these

are very important your sense of

significance I am giving you my secret

to life right here

but brought me from the floor to flying

my own jet is these simple statements

here you got to first change your

perception of who you are understand for

the belief system secondly you must

change your perception of why you think

you exists and number three your sense

of significance you are perceptive who

you are you've got to change and most of

our perceptions are other people's

concepts of us and therefore we don't

have self-concept to get other concept

what is your percent who you are and the

second one why do you think you exists

you got to discover that you were born

for something some reason there's some

purpose for your life if you don't

discover that you'll always have a job

and will bury you in an average grave

with an average tombstone discover that

you are important to the human race you

are important to the world you are

important to your universe when I had to

grapple with that question it was tough

because I've been taught by society like

you have that you are just a Social

Security number or some NIV number or

you some just kind of a worker in the

system but that's not true you were born

to do something very significant in the

world and you have to get to the point

where you believe that cultivating these

attitudes and a key to becoming a leader

now when attitudes of leadership is

married to the ability of leadership

then you become a leader you can have

potential but if you don't have the

belief your potential becomes a victim

of your present belief remember the

elephant the elephant has great power

but what makes him afraid of the lion is

his belief system so your mentality has

to be equal to your ability here to

manifest leadership you do have the

ability you were born with it to be a

leader but your mentality hasn't matched

it yet and that's why all of your

capacity to lead is buried under your

lack of belief that you can believe is

so powerful it can make an elephant act

like a sheep in the presence of a lion

you know normally people who are

insecure whenever they meet somebody who

is confident they always call the

confident arrogant when you discover who

you are you can't help but be confident

I don't pretend I don't try to have

confidence if you try that means you

ain't at it it's you faking it

confidence is a product of belief what

you believe about yourself determines

the way you think about yourself and

what you think about yourself is the way

you behave and you behave bold and

confident and Salus because there's some

things you discovered about you and

about life that makes life change a

perception you can never fully carry out

the Mandate of leadership if you don't

have the mentality of leadership and

that's what this session is about it's

about mentality a matter of fact

integrating attitude and as attributes

and app aptitude and altitude produces

leadership that's a lot of opposite each

one them is a different experience

for leaders first of all your attitude

gotta be right then you must marry that

two attributes that means gifts you were

born with

then you gotta marry that to aptitude

that means now you gotta educate and

train those gifts that's why you read

and study and go to school for your app

for your aptitude to be increased and

then your altitude means you got to

change the level of associations you are

in you know it's amazing

when you change your aptitude you

normally want to change your altitude

leaders choose their friends based on

their destination

and one of the keys to developing

leadership is you have to appreciate the

fact that no one is responding for your

life except you I had to take charge of

my life as a teenager and at age 13 I

discovered who I was I became a problem

to the whole family

my mom would say to me she say you are a

different boy you are a different child

but something happened to me at age 13 I

discovered myself different was simply

meaning you don't think like the rest of

the kids that's what it means and

remember thinking is belief system being

exposed and therefore I married my

attitude and my attributes and my

attitude change and I began to study for

a different reason

and suddenly my attitude change I start

attracting different types of friends by

the way you know when you an ego you see

the other atom of the god identifies

himself with I studied Eagles intensely

I got a whole series on Eagles because

you must study to understand life and I

discovered but he does

they said Eagles can fly up to three to

four miles in the sky that's almost high

as some jet planes and do you know that

when an eagle is flying a top flight

they say that if an eagle meets another

bird in top flight it has to be another

eagle because they're the only birds

that can fly that altitude so here's a

thought to take back to work with you

you keep running into pigeons and ducks

and tobacco dogs you are flying too low

they know the pigeon is Eagles

never flocked you only find them one at

a time so if you keep attracting a gang

of people around you at work everybody

want to bring gossip to you in your

cackling you are in bad company that's

why I really want you to give yourself a

big hand today cause to come here

you must be an eagle you let the

pictures back at the office well why are

you going down there who do you think

they are they can't teach you nothing

hey that's a chicken talking and they

only fly when they're frightened if

you're gonna be a leader you gotta be

careful who you fly with people who

criticize get time for it that's why I

ignore them I ignore my critics because

they got time for it I'm too busy

I'm too busy succeeding I'm giving them

something to criticize the greatest

revenge and like they say its success

it's not ability its mentality that

makes a leader and that hippopotamus has

power they get ability strength size

they get might they got ability what

they lacked is mentality the lion got a

different mentality so he eats them for

lunch what you think is more important

than what you do and so if you want to

change you got to work on this attitude

bit there's my conference people again

here's my philosophy my philosophy is

this trapped in every follower is a

hidden leader trapped in every follower

is it leader therefore the goal of true

leadership is to release the hidden

leader in the followers if you are a

true leader in your department or in

your company supervisory position do I

true leader as a pastor or maybe as a

a manager in some company your greatest

example of leadership is production of

leaders true leaders do not maintain

followers they produce leaders true

leadership focuses on producing leaders

not followers in other words the true

leader begins to train people under

their care immediately to take

leadership the capacity to lead is in

every human being and leadership is like

a tree trapped in a seed and every one

of you that walked through that door

today is a seed that was sent to the

planet to produce a tree to serve the

world your fruit that's why you were

born and deep inside of you is a person

no one knows yet and what you've done so

far is just initiation process that's

why no one should cancel you yet because

you ain't quite come out yet leadership

manifestation requires the right

environment you know a seed can be

placed on a windowsill in your tiled

bathroom and stay there for 50 years and

the tree never come out even though the

seed has a tree and a forest in it it is

a victim of the environment if you can

just get that seed off that windowsill

and put it in soil with a little bit of

water here comes the future that's the

way life is you are no different from a

seed I get stacks of CDs that I buy you

know Les Brown and Tim rap and all the

others and I put in my car I ran on

Drive every time I said in my car I'm

feeding my sea constantly even the music

you listen to gotta be careful it can be

poison to your germination of your scene

the next time someone says they want to

get to know you accident are you

fertilizer or wrong there are some folks

in your life right now who are very

toxic

they will pollute your seed you'll never

come out have you noticed that people

who ain't going nowhere want you

folks are in doing nothing than like

want you to do it with them that's why

you gotta break away from your best

friend sometime to become better you all

grow people so know when to leave if

they keep asking you questions it's time

to go be with people who you can ask

questions that's how you grow true

attitude is manifested in attitude and

what I mean by that is when you discover

leadership it comes out in your attitude

an attitude must be a product of your

belief system everybody here have

attitude everybody what's about the

leadership attitude there are two types

of concepts the first one is the

leadership spirit and the spirit of

leadership two different concepts the

leadership spirit is what you were born

with your ability you never receive it

you came with it

but your ability that you were born with

is trapped by the mentality that they

gave you from the other culture this is

why to be great you got to divorce

yourself from your traditions and your

culture because convention makes no room

for creativity it does not allow you to

believe beyond the norm

matter of fact they want you to fit in

not stand out so society is all worth

it's all designed you to behave yourself

you're trained to limit yourself in that

amazing that you buy a car that can

travel 150 miles per hour or 180 miles

per hour and then the same country that

sells the car to you puts up a sign 50

now you know thought about that it's a

problem yes it C Ford Motor Company

makes the car to make 180 and then they

make sure you only get traveled 50

society is designed to make sure you

never become a leader and that's why it

free to become a leader in your

workplace you're gonna have to break

away from the traditions now I want to

warn you when you decide to break the

speed limit all your enemies will wake

up in the office every critic that you

thought was your friend will suddenly

come alive because people don't want you

to leave them in their nothingness

you can't leave from behind that's why

sheep are not leaders they follow the

sheep hips in front of them but then you

out front

ain't no hip to follow you got to design

your course that takes boldness and risk

it takes all kinds of challenging

commitment to decide where you want to

go in life out front

having the leadership spirit means that

you are naturally created to lead but

the mentality is what wakes it up some

of you in this room look just like that

you you are powerful but they got you in

the bush the social environment is just

making you afraid to come out and take

what's yours in life you are the way you

see yourself

do you think you grasshopper the

elephant actually thinks it's a meal

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the mindset of a leader is what changes

his attitude toward life and himself the

spirit of leadership refers to attitudes

mentality and mindset and that's been

the key to all great leaders and

sometimes a spirit comes forth under

pressure many leaders in history are

products of circumstances that force

them to think differently that's what

makes them emerge as leaders the spirit

leadership is a mindset it dictates your

motivation it is revealed in your

response to your environment as where

leadership is a perception of yourself

and the world how do you see the world

the spread of leadership is your

convictions that regulate your thoughts

about yourself and people the spirit of

leadership is your personal private

philosophy of life how you think about

life in yourself

leadership is your thoughts about

oneself and one's environment it is your

belief system which controls your

behavior the spirit of leadership is the

source of your action which determines

the response and how you interpret the

world this is very important I see that

world differently for most people

because of my belief system which

becomes my attitude creator so I don't

panic over nothing I don't panic panic

is a product of a certain belief system

and therefore it is your mental

conditioning success keeps the right

company all the time you have to nurture

yourself so that you can produce the

right attitude and nurture means to feed

yourself the right information we are

what we think and we become what we

continue to think you tell your kids go

read a book go read your homework and

then you watch TV they confused your

kids will value what you value if you

value TV they gonna hate books if they

want you always reading books they gonna

turn the TV off cuz whatever mom and dad

values and mom and dad are doing well

that must be what we should do too so

our kids fell in love with books

my house is full of books and begin to

run our house

because you become what you think you

cannot rise above the plane of your

memory condition so I got to constantly

keep feeling my mentality I have to work

on it so I can work up my altitude of

mentality you to change your life you

must change your mind

and this is why the heart of leadership

is working on the way a person thinks

here the most important thing to write

down seven principles of true leadership

number one true leadership is inherent

in the human spirit you have to believe

that first every human being possesses

the capacity to be a leader whether they

die as a follower is a choice number two

true leadership cannot be taught it must

be discovered

number three true leadership is self

discovery and number four true

leadership is serving your gift to the

world everyone in this room was born

with a specific gift some of you got two

of them don't try and develop all of

your gifts focus on one make it your

primary gift and then refine it and then

serve it to the world it is your gift

that makes you valuable and serving it

is your responsibility and the better

you serve your gift the greater bleed is

leadership you what you achieve so

rather can serve that gift more

effectively they become the greatest in

the group no one came to earth without a

gift problem is we try to take other

people's gifts and make them ours if you

become an imitation you're gonna be

broke you need to find your gift your

strengths your unique power and you need

to take that and say I'm going to become

this and then serve it to the world and

that's your leadership born that day

we've all been taught to be employed not

deployed and so they always tell you go

to school get an education so you can

get a job they never say stay in school

so you can own a business they don't

even think that way

then it doesn't cost your parents don't

even think that way and so you follow

the convention of the community I'll

never forget the meeting whenever into

Malaysia to speak I was speaking at the

largest Sony plant I had two days with

them the first day I spoke to all the

managers all the CEOs I was the speaker

to train them there was Chinese and

Japanese and Singaporeans all these

folks were there in Malaysia working for

Sony and I had to do training there for

management development of leadership

training for the whole day the third day

the president of that particular firm

called me up when he says our CEO and

our executives are so impressed by you

we want to take you for lunch we want to

talk to you some more and they were

picking my brain man they wanted they

were taking notes asking me questions

keep writing stuff writing stuff and and

I of a sudden hit me you know wait a

minute all these guys got millionaires

man every

I know owns a business and Here I am in

the heart of Asia where they come from

and I said sir

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I have a question that I need you to

answer militantly I said tell me how

come every way

no matter where it is you called it a

Louis ghetto in the Harbor Township and

you end up owning a business can you

tell me what is your city and they look

at each other and they laughed and then

the president said to me he said well

you know we've been noticing that

ourselves we have concluded based on our

assessment that whenever you go into a

community the first thing you look for

is a job he says when we come into any

community the first thing we look for is

a business he said its attitude they

don't even look for a job they don't

even think about employment they think

deployment has a man thinking so he

becomes so I said to the guy I said

excuse me

so when you go into a town any any

country so what are you doing till you

get a business he says any employment we

have is always temporary we only want

enough money to start a business that's

all mentality number six true leadership

is self manifestation you become a

leader when you discover who you are and

decide to become it true leadership is

self manifestation your leadership is

not ahead of you is trapped within you

you are so great it's amazing but the

environment won't allow you to become it

sometimes our past can hold us back

mentality just don't allow you to to

step out and take a risk what you doing

now it's not what you could do whatever

you impressed with God's disappointed

stop waiting for everything to show up

before you start every leader I tell the

truth every leader ain't know what they

do it me included we don't know what

we're doing we just say I got this idea

I'm gonna go for it and for heaven's

sake believe me we ain't got no money

what I mean it's for our projects

because you are not a leader unless

you're doing something you cannot pay

for I say you're not a leader unless you

are doing something you cannot pay for

leadership demands that you gotta take

risks

and number seven leadership is self

exposure when you expose your true self

get ready people won't understand you

but go for it

let us meet you before you die not the

one the culture made another one society

produce the one that's on the inside

that we have yet to meet the true self

this is why I keep telling people you

got to die empty I want to give you this

what I call the five questions of life

that you have to answer to become a

leader number one Who am I

number two where am i from number three

why am I here number four what can I do

and number five where am I going these

are the most important questions in life

and until you answer them you will

always be a follower

Who am I has to do with identity you got

discover who you are apart from 6.7

billion people number two where am i

from has to do with your heritage and

I'm not talking about your ethnicity

because your ethnic heritage is so

confusing don't try to find yourself by

going back in your ethnicity you'll

never find out where you're from why am

I here is a question of purpose you got

discover why you

the planet where am I going is a

question of destiny and what can I do is

a question of potential and therefore

when you discover these answers you've

discovered your leadership I know who I

am I didn't always but I found out who I

was and secondly I know where I came

from and I didn't come from the Bahamas

I didn't come from Africa because both

of them are limiting all cultures limit

you had to come from something greater

my greatest mentor in history of my life

is Jesus Christ at one time they asked

him where are you from

you know this answer was he didn't say

came from Bethlehem grew up in Nazareth

and had friends in Capernaum his answer

was I came down from heaven they say

they said no no we know your mother

she's married and your daddy joke he

says no I came down from heaven he

refused to have his heritage limited to

Earth and so am i me I came through pain

town I didn't come from Bain town I came

through the Bahamas I didn't come from

the Bahamas whoever you came from can

limit you or give you unlimited thinking

I said the reason why they call Africa

mother Africa is because you never get

your heritage from your mother that's

why you carries your father's name the

seed of the identicals from your father

I came down from my father through the

mother that makes me limitless I'm just

like my daddy all things are awesome

with my father true leadership is not a

method nor a technique true leadership

is an attitude when I discovered that I

came out of God not out of the Bahamas

suddenly the Bahamas became too small

for me so today we have effects in 90

countries right from this island because

the mentality that was developed here

goes beyond this entire region

don't let where you came from physically

trap you don't let your ethnic heritage

become your graveyard

stop being black and white and yellow

and stuff forget that so that's true

that's too limiting become like your

father

be a man is a spirit being there's no

limit everything you know it's not all

there is to know beliefs and convictions

of a leader can regulates the nature of

their leadership and therefore the

source of beliefs is the perception of

your truth what is truth to you

determines what you do with your life

whatever you think is truth that's how

you're gonna live that's why it's

important to keep getting information