Leadership can be defined as your influence over and on the performance and wellbeing of others. If a person has the ability to impact someone’s life for the better, they are a leader. Conversely and sometimes more importantly, if you a life can be effected for the worse, that’s also leadership. Peter Drucker describes the demands of leadership succinctly:
“Leaders require the capacity to analyze, to think, to weigh alternatives, and to harmonize dissent. But the also require the capacity for quick and decisive action, for boldness, and for intuitive courage. They require being at home with abstract ideas, concepts calculations and figures. They also require perception of people, a human awareness, empathy …show more content…
During the building of the Hoover Dam, leadership found that when workers were rebuked for not wearing their hard hats, compliance was low. But when they intentionally praised those they saw with hardhats, the positive response was overwhelming; once tactics where switched to encouragement and praise, in a matter of days not a single head was hatless. I want to recognize you for the work you do, the CG has done so much for so long that we’ve convinced ourselves the superior work we do is only “average” help me stay out of this trap by bringing to my attention anyone and anything that bears recognition, from coins to mid-tour awards, help me show our people how much their service means to the American People. …show more content…
Love: Love for me, is a state of being. I am a man of deep faith, and this comes through in this value. I wish to represent this by recognizing the inherent humanity of all those with whom I interact, regardless of situation you are my family as a fellow human and coastie.
2. Joy: There is joy to be found in every situation. Happiness is like a warm blanket that you can pull over you in the moment but it comes from a situation, a person or a place. Joy is internal, like a small ember that is always there. You may choose to ignore it, but it doesn’t go out. When you choose to focus on it, it grows and warms you from the inside out; radiating outward and influencing all those with whom you interact. I’ll be the first person to laugh at myself to find the joy in any moment; this is how I live in joy.
3. Curiosity: Curiosity is the opposite of judgment, the opposite of comparing and contrasting. There’s always something more to any given situation beyond the story you’re telling yourself. Cultivate genuine curiosity by temporarily suspending judgment and learning how to ask the right questions. The quality of your life will be determined by the quality of the questions you