Positive Leadership: What is Success?

Positive Leadership: What is Success?

Positive Leadership: Success

Positive Leadership: Success

Positive Leadership: Reaching for the Top

Positive Leadership: Reaching for the Top

Positive Leadership: Why Grit Determines Success

Wisdom from psychologist Angela Duckworth on ‘Why Grit, Not IQ, Predicts Success’

“Character is at least as important as intellect.”

http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/09/26/angela-duckworth-grit/

Positive Leadership: Why Grit Determines Success

Positive Leadership: The Difference between Success and Excellence

Most performers believe success and excellence are interchangeable terms. After all, if I'm successful I'm excellent--right? Wrong.

Success is an absolute term. If you are the highest producing salesperson, win the game or beat the earnings forecast you are successful. Success in the performance world is about achieving outcomes better than others by comparison.

Excellence, on the other hand, is a relative term. It is about maximising your personal and organisational potential. If you are the highest producing salesperson but you can sell more, you have not fulfilled your sales potential. If you win the game but could have scored more points, you have not fulfilled your athletic potential. If you beat the earnings forecast but leave some organisational profit on the table, you have not fulfilled the potential of your company. 

If you are excellent you deliver the best performance you are capable of, regardless of the absolute outcome.

If you are excellent, you will be successful but you can be successful without being excellent. Commit to excellence--it's more meaningful. And, by the way, it's also more fun!

Positive Leadership: The Difference between Success and Excellence

Positive Leadership: Fear

Positive Leadership: Fear

Positive Leadership: How Bad Do You Want It?

Positive Leadership: How Bad Do You Want It?

Positive Leadership: Inspiration

Positive Leadership: Inspiration

Positive #Leadership: Imagine

Positive #Leadership: Imagine

Positive Leadership: Success

Positive Leadership: Success

Positive Leadership: Never Give Up

Positive Leadership: Never Give Up

Positive Leadership: How Much Do You Want To Succeed?

Positive Leadership: How Much Do You Want To Succeed?

Positive Leadership: Greatness

Positive Leadership: Greatness

Positive Leadership: The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding

With profound simplicity, Coach John Wooden redefines success and urges us all to pursue the best in ourselves. 

In this inspiring talk he shares the advice he gave his players at UCLA, quotes poetry and remembers his father's wisdom.

 John Wooden, affectionately known as Coach, led UCLA to record wins that are still unmatched in the world of basketball.

Throughout his long life, he shared the values and life lessons he passed to his players, emphasising success that’s about much more than winning.

Positive Leadership: The Difference Between Winning and Succeeding

Positive Leadership: Customers First!

'An attitude that leaders serve customers first is especially vital to sustaining success. Employees are only empowered by serving customers. They’re not motivated by getting the stock price up, cutting the budget, or increasing the earnings. They don’t see tangible rewards from succeeding by those metrics, even if you make them shareholders. They get turned on about customers. In a Starbucks store, the barista gets excited about creating an environment that’s fun for the customer. I was at Starbucks earlier this morning and saw a barista greet a customer by saying, “Oh, Rick, nice to see you. Do you want the Rick special?” Rick comes there every morning because he has a relationship with that Starbucks employee.'

Bill George - is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where he has taught leadership since 2004, and the former chairman and chief executive officer of Medtronic.

Positive Leadership: Customers First!

Positive Leadership: Vince Lombardi

'The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.'

'The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.'

'Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.'

Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

Positive Leadership: Vince Lombardi

Positive Leadership: Illusions of Success

Positive Leadership: Illusions of Success

Positive Leadership: Success Secrets

'Show up, speak up, look up, team up, dont give up, lift others up.'

From the power of presence to the power of voice, leadership expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter describes how to navigate through the process of making a difference in the world.

Harvard professor Kanter describes lining up partnerships, managing the miserable middles of change, and sharing success with others. She tells stories of great leaders and ordinary people who use the six success factors to show up, speak up, look up, team up, never give up, and lift others up. This is an up-lifting talk.

Leadership Expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor at the Harvard Business School, Chair and Director of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, and author of SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies CreateInnovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good.

Positive Leadership: Success Secrets

Positive Leadership: Motivation to Succeed

A great video from our friend Scott Savor. Some of the best lessons and words of wisdom from successful people all over the world!

Success leaves footprints...follow them!!!!

Positive Leadership: Motivation to Succeed

Positive Leadership: How Winners Achieve Success

How winners 'ACHIEVE' success:

A - acceptance; the ability to accept that you do not always succeed the first time and you must keep on trying until you do succeed.

C - criticism; the ability to receive negative feedback and use it positively to affect your performance. 

H - help; use a good coach to work towards your goals - it is not a sign of weakness or lack of ability to use a coach. 

I - inspiration; be inspired by other people. If someone who you often beat wins against you take inspiration that it means you are good enough to do the same.

E - evaluate; honestly take stock of where you are with your skills and then work on the aspects that need to be improved.

V - vivid; have a clear image of what you want to achieve, how you are going to achieve it and who you need to help you to do so.

E - equal; all people have the ability to do great things. Our future is not pre-determined for us. Genetics plays a role but hard work plays an even bigger role.

Positive Leadership: How Winners Achieve Success