Pink Leadership

Intro:

Greatness is expected. It must be value driven.
Enthusiasm is contageous.
Vision must first be cast from leadership, then people can rally behind it, only then can one inspire people to achieve.
Consistency is a staple of vision.

People look for specific traits in leaders
- integrity
- respectfullness
- compassion
- honesty
- fairness

If corporations are to realize their potential, it's as custodians fo the human spirit.
Leaders are listeners.
Leadership will be lost without raising up leaders who can communicate your vision.

Chapter 1:

Women changed their attitudes, life goals, business philosophy as a result of the association.

Such change was possible only because of the example set by leadership. They lived their lives and ran the company with the values they taught. With such an example, in such an environment, change was welcomed and expected.

"If you can conceive it, and if you believe it, you can achieve it."

What you do is more important than what you say. Build your business, your relationships, your life on unchangeables. On what foundation do you build your life?

One rule: Do Right!

Inspire those around you with a foundation of leadership that inspires the people around them - and those who follow them - to achieve success.

Ensure every person in the organization understand the principles behind the organization. Again, this means communicating a common ethos throughout your group. In this way you produce a principled organization.

"Seek the best for others, the profits will follow."

Chapter 2:

Focus not on results, but hte behaviors that create results.

Treat people wwell. Build people up instaed of tearing down.

Long term success is founded on people. "They're the only thing that appreciates in value your whole life."

Be the example first and always. Lead from the front. Leadership begins at home. The speed of the group is determined by the speed of the leader.

The stronger the character of the leader, the more likely they are to be successful guiding a company. - Can't create something you are not. - Like begets like.

Six Virtues of A Great Leader:
1. Humility: recognized the significance in others.
- be humble
- be concerned with those around you. no one cares how much you know until they know how much you care.

2. Seed the Best for Others: the only way to maximized your income is to maximize other people.
- invest in people. they are the world's greatest asset.
- seek and surround yourself with talent. Henry Ford was not an encyclopedia. Ben Franklin was not a doctor.
- encourage the best for others. help them to achieve their dreams. edify up, empower down, and get caught up in between.
- "Treat your business as any full time career and the rewards will come."

3. Expect Excellence: create high standards and believe in people to achieve more than they thought possible.
- Expect more of yourself first and others second.
"Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom." James 3:13
- Instill in your people the discipline needed to achieve the lofty heights of their potential.
- ask people to commit to max out who they are.
"and when it is all said and done, God will look down upon me and say that I used up every bit of talent He gave me."
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat."

4. Integrity: if you give your word, keep it. Period.
"With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. 10Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be." James 3:9-10
- regardless of cost
- creates magnetism. integrity draws people to you.

5. Impatience with the Status Quo: constantly innovate to stay ahead.

6. Indomitable Spirit: Success is build on failure.
"Success has less to do with our abilities and much more to do with our commitment to achieve excellence in spite of our shortcomings."

ONE VISION!!! - Help others succeed. If they don't it's unlikely you will either.