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Real Leadership Requires Absolutes

Guest post by: Manny Nowak

Article Overview: You can't lead by being afraid of what people will think of the decision. You have to learn early that leadership requires some people not liking the decisions you make. You can't lead from a seesaw - you have to be able to stand firm. Nothing worse than a leader who keeps changing his/her mind and never seems to stand for anything. Leadership requires earned respect.

Real Leadership Requires Absolutes

You can't lead by taking a survey. Even though many people today think

you can. You can't lead by being afraid of what people will think of the decision.

You have to learn early that leadership requires some people not liking

the decisions you make.

You can't lead from a seesaw - you have to be able to stand firm. Nothing

worse than a leader who keeps changing his/her mind and never seems to

stand for anything.

Leadership requires earned respect.

You can't please everyone, deal with it, accept it and move on. Leading will

be much easier for you.

Real leadership requires a personal set of standards which you have to keep,

even when it seems to suck to do so. A set of standards by which you live

your life and by which you operate. You have to determine your priorities

in life, what and who comes first, second, etc and what you will and will not

do. Once you have this defined, then making decisions comes much easier

because you have a set of standards to process the decision against.

So what has this got to do with with today's subject, execution? Only

everything.

You see execution is the time you test real leadership. Execution requires

leadership. To make it happen, you have to make the tough decisions,

you have to put yourself out there and you have to walk the walk

The "E" in Success stands for Execution

So far in our study of success, we have gotten serious, we have defined

the vision, we have developed the plan and now, we need to make it

happen, we need to execute the plan. To many times this never happens.

Not just in business, but also in life. We have great plans laid out, but

when it comes to making them happen, nothing happens.

To execute you have to become the leader and you have to make decisions.

If you have that solid base, that set of standards for making your decisions,

then making those decisions becomes so much easier. There is nothing as

frustrating as a person in a leadership role who cannot make a decision.

Creflow Dollars puts it very simply: "Do not allow your feelings to govern

your decisions. Else you will be tossed all over the place."

Should I, shouldn't I. How will John feel? How will Mary take it? Will Jim

stop liking me?

Stop, based on your standards, do it, or don't do it.

Remember the words of Joyce Meyer: "You cannot drive a parked car".

Make a decision, move forward, execute and make it happen. To many

people in leadership positions simply are sitting in that parked car waiting

for a tow truck.

Is it fear that keeps you from moving forward? If so, take a moment and

think about what Emerson said:, "Do the things you fear and the death

of fear is certain."

Stop holding back. As Maurice Chevalier says, "If you wait for the perfect

moment when all is safe and all is assured, it may never arrive. Mountains

will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved - so go

ahead and do it anyway."

How many of us know those in leadership positions who seem to be waiting

for that perfect moment. It is totally frustrating. Then there are those of us

who have learned the magic formula, "that many times it is easier to ask

for forgiveness, than to ask for permission".

If you keep looking for an excuse for not executing you will keep coming

up with one. Remember the words of Michael Hage, "An excuse is nothing

but a lie camouflaged by a reason". Start executing, make a decision and

start making your plan a reality. If you didn't believe the plan, why did

you write it? If you don't believe the vision, then replace with with one

you do believe.

Stop hesitation, go forward. You now have the vision and plan, and you

have already committed that you are serious, so go out and execute the

plan.

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