It is widely accepted that effective leadership development begins with personal leadership. What?s that phrase? If you can?t lead you, please don?t try and lead me.
Here?s one of the most powerful self leadership tools available and the background behind it.
Several years ago on a balmy Spring afternoon, two of the wealthiest business people on the planet, Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, and Warren Buffet, Chairman of investment house Berkshire Hathaway, ran a seminar for 350 business school students at the University of Washington.
It is rare for seminar leaders to have a combined worth of $84 million, never mind the $84 billion of these two, so the audience was riveted in anticipation.
?How did you do it??, someone asked.
?It?s not IQ, I?m sure you?ll be glad to hear,? said Buffet. ?The big thing is output. IQ and talent represent the horsepower of the motor. Many people have a 400 horsepower motor, but only get 100 horsepower of output. It?s way better to have a 200 horsepower motor and get all 200 horsepower of output.
People do things which interfere with the output they should get. It?s about habits and character and temperament. Everyone can make it, some of you will and some of you won?t. For the ones who won?t, it will be because you get in your own way, not because the world won?t allow you.?
He then described one of the most useful self-improvement tips I have ever encountered.
The personal leadership exercise.
?I have one little suggestion for you. Pick out the person you admire most, and then write down why you admire them. Don?t include yourself in this!
Then pick out the person that frankly you can stand the least and write down the qualities that turn you off in that person.
Look at what you admire and make up your mind to make those traits your own habits, and look at what you find really reprehensible in others and decide those are things you are not going to do. If you do that you?ll find that you convert all of your horsepower into output.?
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