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Are You A Leader OR A Follower?
By Irene Becker
The imperative to build and sustain greater personal, inter-personal and business leadership is not important, it is critical. And, yet most of us would agree that at a time when our access to knowledge, information, technology and training are unsurpassed in human history, leadership is conspicuous in its absence.
| ”The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.” Warren Bennis, Leadership Expert, Harvard Professor, Author |
Research around leadership clearly demonstrates that while the rare individual is born with the qualities of a leader, the vast majority of people learn to lead. However, learning to lead in a rapidly changing world, a flat and increasingly competitive workplace, marketplace and society means learning to see our strengths and our challenges, our stressors and turning points, our most difficult transitions or crises with new eyes.
| “The real source of wealth and capital in this new era is not material things. it is the human mind, the human spirit, the human imagination, and our faith in the future.” Steve Forbes, Editor and Chief of Forbes Magazine, CEO Forbes Inc. |
Why are new eyes important? Because what worked in the past will be ineffective in the present or future. Our unsurpassed access to knowledge, information, technology and training alone cannot help us actualize greater leadership. Engaging the power of our human spirit, imagination and faith in the future demands new eyes.
Leadership used to be defined by the ability to control and master the mode of production, but we are now living in a new world where the catalyst for business success is human creativity, potential, action-ability, effectiveness. Inspiring, motivating and leading the best in ourselves.
| "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
Leaders and those who aspire to greater leadership in their work and their lives need to develop three core strengths, three important competencies I call the Q strengths. Competencies that help them see differently, see more, and see farther while actualizing the ability to create the vision, inspire, engage and lead the action that will take them forward, faster and better than ever before.
What are these Q strengths? Strengths that have helped me, and have helped my clients live, lead and succeed to purpose. Strengths that drive human passion, purpose and potential in the face of the multiplicity of changes, challenges, stressors and crises we face in life and work. They are the strengths of pioneers who refuse to settle for complacency or mediocrity, and strive to open a new pathway, a powerful pathway to their greatest potential while inspiring others to do the same. They are the catalyst for the mind share, the heart share that drives market share. And, they are also critical to achieving leadership in one's relationships and life.
| “In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people; they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.” Ken Blanchard, Author, CEO of Ken Blanchard Companies |
QI-IQ-Enhanced mind power, greater whole brain thinking, the ability to think faster, better, farther, differently and more while building greater effectiveness and action-ability under stress.
Q2-EQ- Emotional intelligence or EQ/EI is our learned ability to understand and manage our emotions, understand the emotions of others while using our thoughts and emotions to inspire, engage and lead the best in ourselves and others.
Q3- SQ-The power within. Values Alignment. Spiritual quotient, the intangible but powerful connection with one’s higher power, the greater good, the G-d force; a quotient that is critical because it puts our brains into the alpha state that is a critical driver of our other two powerful Q strengths.
| Change the paradigm? Yes, now more than ever before we need to cultivate the powerful habit, the new optic, eyesight or perspective that can help us see the changes, challenges, competition, stressors, transitions, turning points and even crises we face with new eyes that accelerate and sustain our 3Q Edge™. |
Are you ready to lead? Do you want to become a change agent? Is it time to live, lead and succeed to purpose? Consider this, in every great challenge there is a great learning, it is our ability to step away from ego, to move past our need to be validated and cultivate our ability to become a problem transformer, a leader, a pioneer, a trailblazer that can help us move molehills and mountains.
| “Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.” Rudy Giuliani, Former Mayor of New York City |
The choice is yours, the time is now to get off the fence and decide if you will follow or lead by developing your Q skills. Will you be challenged by what you can achieve by using your new eyes do develop your 3Q Edge™, or will you stay in the comfort zone and wait for the next wave of change to lead you?
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