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Leadership According to Napoleon Hill

Guest post by: Edward Abel

Article Overview: When you became a business owner, you also became a leader (whether you intended to or not). In your business, you are charged with leading your team -- your employees, contractors, consultants, and business partners -- to achieve results. Though leadership is often a challenging trait to describe, Napoleon Hill (in his famous 1937 book, Think and Grow Rich) does a fantastic job explaining the attributes of an effective leader.

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Leadership According to Napoleon Hill

When you became a business owner, you also became a leader (whether you intended to or not). In your business, you are charged with leading your team -- your employees, contractors, consultants, and business partners -- to achieve results.


Though leadership is often a challenging trait to describe, Napoleon Hill (in his famous 1937 book, Think and Grow Rich) does a fantastic job explaining the attributes of an effective leader.


The Major Attributes of Leadership
  1. Unwavering Courage Based Upon Knowledge of Self, and of One's Occupation. No follower wishes to be dominated by a leader who lacks self-confidence and courage. No intelligent follower will be dominated by such a leader very long.
  2. Self-Control. The man who cannot control himself can never control others. Self-control sets a mighty example for one's followers, which the more intelligent will emulate.

  3. A Keen Sense of Justice. Without a sense of fairness and justice, no leader can command and retain the respect of his followers.
  4. Definiteness of Decision. The man who wavers in his decisions, shows that he is not sure of himself. He cannot lead others successfully.

  5. Definiteness of Plans. The successful leader must plan his work, and work his plan. A leader who moves by guesswork, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.

  6. The Habit of Doing More than Paid for. One of the penalties of leadership is the necessity of willingness, upon the part of the leader, to do more than he requires of his follower.

  7. A Pleasing Personality. No slovenly, careless person can become a successful leader. Leadership calls for respect. Followers will not respect a leader who does not grade high on all of the factors of a Pleasing Personality.
  8. Sympathy and Understanding. The successful leader must be in sympathy with his followers. Moreover, he must understand them and their problems.
  9. Mastery of Detail. Successful leadership calls for mastery of details of the leader's position.

  10. Willingness to Assume Full Responsibility. The successful leader must be willing to assume responsibility for the mistakes and the shortcomings of his follower. If he tries to shift this responsibility, he will not remain the leader. If one of his followers makes a mistake, and shows himself incompetent, the leader must consider that is he who failed.
  11. Cooperation. The successful leader must understand, and apply the principle of cooperative effort and be able to induce his followers to do the same. Leadership calls for POWER, and power calls for COOPERATION.
Note: The above is an excerpt from Think and Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, published 1937. I direct all of my business consulting clients to own a copy and read it often (I keep a digital version with me at all times on my Kindle).

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Ed Abel has invested more than three decades learning how to build a successful, thriving business. At age 24 with a $5,000 loan and the energy and passion of a young entrepreneur, Ed was ready to take on the world. And he did, only to emerge seven years later at the top of a $36 million organization with 585 employees. Inspired by the challenges that led him to success, Ed went on to build other multi-million dollar businesses, yet he missed the passion he experienced "in the trenches" of his formative years.

Determined to find a way to educate and advise others in the construction and sustainability of a vital business, he founded ABEL Business Institute. Over the course of this process, he developed The SkillPreneur Business System, a systematic approach to the construction, maintenance, and growth of a business's--an approach that has become the philosophy and methodology of ABEL Business Institute.

Ed is an adjunct professor of entrepreneurial studies at New York University (NYU) as well as the Director of the business division at the world class Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC). At iPEC, Ed directs the business division that is responsible for supporting the graduate coaches in their business development process.




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Re: My 3 best business books Re: My 3 best business books - It seems that Napoleon Hill works help a lot of business men. He had done a really good job. I bought Think and Grow Rich many times.
Re: Quote of the Day - ??"Great opportunities are not seen with Re: Quote of the Day - ??"Great opportunities are not seen with - Hi Evan, Thanks for posting this great quote. It reminds me of Napoleon Hill quotes that "You will achieve what your mind has conceived." I am not sure I got it verbatim,but this is what it says. The Bible also says "As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is"
Re: Burn all your bridges inorder to succeed?? Re: Burn all your bridges inorder to succeed?? - HI Guys, Great conversation! But I think we are forgetting that Napoleon Hill actually said to 'burn the boats" which meant that you have no way to go back. it doesnt mean burn your bridges in todays context of networking, referrals etc. By burning the ships, soldiers were forced to get off the island only by being successful. Like 'quitting is not an option'. I think that statement is still very relevant today, where many people start but then stop pursuing their dreams. Jude
Re: What Are Your 2010 Income Goals? Re: What Are Your 2010 Income Goals? - [quote="Trent Brownrigg":1ngkkqbx]Yes, I think showing each other our progress each quarter is a great idea. It will help keep us both motivated by having someone to check our progress.[/quote:1ngkkqbx] I am game. Thanks for been my masterminding angel or what did Napoleon Hill the writer of "Think and Grow Rich" called them?
Motivational Books for Entrepreneurs Motivational Books for Entrepreneurs - Searched but did not find a comprehensive list of books for us entrepreneurs: Here are some of my favorites: Napoleon Hill - Think and Grow Rich The greatest secret in the world- Earl Nightingale...listen to it, then listen to it again. Jeffrey Gitomers books- Red book of selling, sales bible, Green book of getting your way. Your Erroneous Zones - Wayne Dyer Thinkertoys - Michael Michalko How To Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie The Magic of Believing - Claude M. Bristol How to Talk to Anyone - Leil Lowndes Get Smarter- Seymour Schulich What are yours?


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