Abraham Lincolns Leadership Lessons

I love this new trend of gaining insight from dead people…

                      

Being a startup CEO is not unlike being a great political leader. The challenges you’ll face are different, but in both realms you’ll have the chance to rise above obstacles or crumble in the face of them.

The following lessons from Lincoln will hopefully help you along your journey.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

- Abraham Lincoln

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Great Leadership Is A Habit

Great leaders are created not born; you can learn in the context of your own personality how to lead people into getting the job done. Great leadership is a habit, constantly doing the right thing to get the right result. Now GE’s Jeff Immelt has some helpful hints on how to be a great leader…

Things Leaders Do

GE’s Jeff Immelt on the 10 keys to great leadership.

When GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt teaches up-and-coming leaders at the
company’s famed management-development center, he runs through a
checklist of what he calls "Things Leaders Do." In an interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership checklist.

1. Personal Responsibility.
"Enron and 9/11
marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of
personal responsibility. You lead today by building teams and placing
others first. It’s not about you."

2. Simplify Constantly.
"I always use Jack
[Welch] as my example here. Every leader needs to clearly explain the
top three things the organization is working on. If you can’t, then
you’re not leading well."

3. Understand Breadth, Depth, and Context.
"The
most important thing I’ve learned since becoming CEO is context. It’s
how your company fits in with the world and how you respond to it."

4. The importance of alignment and time management.

"There is no real magic to being a good leader. But at the end of every
week, you have to spend your time around the things that are really
important: setting priorities, measuring outcomes, and rewarding them."

5. Leaders learn constantly and also have to learn how to teach.

"A leader’s primary role is to teach. People who work with you don’t
have to agree with you, but they have to feel you’re willing to share
what you’ve learned."

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Staff Your Weakness

Many people let their real or imagined weaknesses stop them from
reaching their goals in life. What you perceive as a weakness may be an
opportunity to develop a relationship with someone who is gifted in
that area. Every person that you see standing on top got there with the
help of others, the idea of the "self made man" is a myth and if you
see a leader without support you are looking at a fool waiting for
something bad to happen.

Before me and my wife got married we had a vision meeting where we
both brought our written plans for our lives to make sure that we were
both going in the same direction. What that meeting revealed was 2
people who were on a path going in the same direction. Now what I mean
by that is we were both in school to achieve our life goals, also most
of our time energy and money was going towards taking us in that
direction. If you meet someone who claims to want something and is not
actively putting their money and time where their mouth is, that person
is a sucker. Beware of suckers because they are sent from hell to waste
your time and they will suck up your time, energy, and money.

So today I’m sitting in my nice and clean office because I staff my
weakness and hired a cleaning lady to help a brother out. She is gifted
in this area and did an excellent job, so now I can sit in a clean
orderly space and be creative and productive. I could have cleaned the
office myself but because I’m not gifted in that area it was not a good
investment of my time. Time is your most precious asset and what you do
with it will determine your destiny. How much time do you think the
President spends dusting the oval office? Is it because he is too good
to do it or is it because his time can be better spent somewhere else?

Do you want a great life? Then spend most of your time cultivating your strengths and staff your weaknesses….

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Artist As A Leader? It’s Possible…

Would Michelangelo have made a good manager at Seven Eleven?
 

What do we mean, when we describe leadership as an art? How does the idea of leader as artist affect the way we think about, and practice leadership? When pondering on the idea of leader as artist and considering the parallel between an artist and the practice of leadership, provides some useful insights on leadership.

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Free Online Flight Tracking With Flight Aware

Flight Aware will give you live updates on any commercial or private flight and it’s free!

Live Flight Tracking

Flight Aware
provides real-time tracking, but not just of flights or traffic to
airports — actual unique, tail-number identifiable equipment. So, you
can see where the plane you’ll be flying has been. It’s always sort of
floored me the way airlines shuttle planes through their service loops.
Los Angeles to Tokyo, clean the toilets and shove some more food on
board, and fly it back. Don’t airplanes need to rest for a few days?
Something?

via dl tv and techkwondo

 

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