The Most Important Discipline Required for Success

Leadership is for everyone. If you can breath you can lead.

It is really the single most important discipline required to create success in business.

Leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do, even though they might not like doing it either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important and right, versus what's easy and fun.

It's not that leaders don't have a great time, they definitively do.  Because of their ability to create success and lasting positive results, they end up having far more joy and delight that those who do not practice leadership. Few thing generate as much happiness as knowing that you are fully realizing your genius, doing brilliant work and spending your life to the fullest.

Leadership is not only something to do at work, rather is something to practice on your daily activities and life: leadership in our health, in our finances, with our loved ones, within our community and most of all with ourselves (self-leadership) - if you can not lead yourself, you will never be able to lead anyone else around you.

Leaders are those who are content but never satisfied in the sense that they always crave for improvement. They tend to look for improvement in everything possible in a daily basis, relentlessly and with passion.

Leaders are those that realize that each person creates their own destiny. They never let themselves down even in adversity, they never resign to mediocrity or miss opportunities, they never blame others - instead;they are the ones that take responsibility, always look to better themselves, the people around them and society in general. They leave a legacy of success.

Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack up over time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have ever planned for. Failure on the other hand, is nothing more than the inevitable outcome of a few small acts of daily neglect performed consistently over time.

Anyone can reach success if if they consistently do the right things. Leaders know that trough daily life efforts, the harvest will come - they have faith, discipline and patience. 

Consistency and sustained changed only happens when we shift at an emotional level rather than at a logical level - you want to have it, create it,experience it, enjoy it. The key for leadership is emotion, energy, passion. The more you own your power to make choices, the more powerful your choices become.

Awaken you inner leader !

How to Be a Leader Regardless of Your Job Title

Titles in an organization are positive in the sense that they create structure, maintain order and vision; however, for an organization to thrive in the business world today, each one needs to assume a leadership position in their own roles.

Doing your best at work is what matters – the action of being the best, being creative, inspiring others, stretching your thinking and solving problems is better than the title itself.

In today’s changing world, growing and developing the talents of every single person throughout an organization is what makes the company and the people themselves successful – building leaders regardless of titles.

To be successful everyone must see themselves as part of the leadership of the organization – you don’t need formal authority to lead, only a strong desire to be involved and a strong commitment to make a positive difference. Be truly excellent in your current role – no role is a small role; every job is an important job.

We all possess an inner leadership regardless of title. We just need to become aware of it and then really own it.

Leadership has nothing to do with what you get or where you sit; leadership is more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave. It’s all about doing great work and about lifting up every single one of the people you work with and get to serve.

You don’t have to have a title to be a leader just be the best you can be – once you do, life will definitively reward you, not only on a business level but also on a personal level.

Enhance your Organization by Leveraging Diversity

Leveraging Diversity is part of your Empathy - a component of your Social Competence.

While Empathy, in general, is related to your awareness, needs and concerns of others -Leveraging Diversity relates to your ability to cultivate opportunities with different kinds of people.

People who have this competence usually:

• Respect and relate well to people from varied backgrounds
• Understand diverse worldviews and perspectives 
• Are sensitive to group differences
• See diversity as an opportunity
• Create an environment where diverse people and views can thrive

People, in general, need to be valued based on their moral values, knowledge, performance, and success rather than their background.

Diversity of people brings diversity of ideas to a business - it boosts competitiveness since diversity is most likely to enhance organizational flexibility allowing a rapid adaptation to shifting markets.

Written by John Krumbach,
VP of Finances, ISU Corp