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Finding Your Truth North: Bill George
What are you doing to make this world a better place?
Each of you is a leader. Are you developing your gifts?
Nelson Mandela. After being in prison for 27 years, one the day of his inauguration as president he said, “I am not your
president. I am your servant. I will serve you the rest of my life.”
One Nelson Mandela’s favorite poems.
Our Greatest Fear —Marianne Williamson
it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous,
talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other
people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
Leadership is not money, fame, and power. Leadership is responsibility. Peter Drucker
In 20th century, leadership was command and control leaders. In the 21st century leadership is about empowering others to lead.
Three reasons:
1. WE have knowledge workers. They know more than their boss about any given area.
2. The mobility of the worker. Most people will numerous jobs and even multiple careers. That’s new. They have the
power to leave on a moments notice. They need the freedom to lead and change.
3. People are looking for meaning and significance at work. It’s not just a paycheck anymore. If you give most of your life
to work, is it wrong to want a sense of meaning and significance from it?
I want to suggest a new definition of 21st century empower leadership is built on four mandates:
ALIGN:
First job of the leader is to align people around a common mission and vision. This is the hard side of leadership. Align is
difficult.
EMPOWER
The goal of leadership is not to get people to follow you; but to equip people to step up and unleash their power.
SERVE
People are not there to serve us. We are there to serve them.
COLLOBORATE
Right now we are facing what I call the Big Six. These are the problems for the next century: Poverty, global peace, education,
health care, energy, and environment. Those problems are so big and so tough, no one organization or government or institution
can tackle these. We have to work together and collaborate. The size and complexity of these problems demands it.
Collaboration is non-negotiable.
How Do I Become an Empowering People?
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Understand the purpose of your unique leadership
a. Find Your Compass, Not your clock. Are you following your truth north?
Become self aware
a. Go out and try it
b. Ask for feedback
c. Make time for reflection
Be true to your values, not matter what.
Lead from Strengths and Follow your motivated capabilities
Build a support team around you.
a. Find the person you can be totally open and honest with. For me, that’s my wife. I have two support/prayer
groups. One of those groups we have been meeting together for 33 years. We also have a couple groups.
Don’t wait. Build it now.
Live an integrated life. It’s not possible to live a balanced life, but you can be the same person in every environment
you are in.
When you empower more leaders, you increase the net store of energy and resources available in your organization. You are
not giving power and energy away, you are multiplying it. It’s like love, the more you give away, the more you have.
When your grandchild asks you, “What did you do to make a difference in the world?”
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in
the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Robert F Kennedy