1. “Lead yourself. That’s where it all starts.”
2. Successful
people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.
3. The
key to leading yourself well is to learn slef-management.
4. Nothing
will make a better impression on your leader than your ability to manage
yourself. If your leader must continually expend energy managing you, then you
will be perceived as someone who drains time and energy. If you manage yourself
well, however, your boss will see you as someone who maximizes opportunities
and leverages personal strengths. That will make you someone your leader turns
to when the heat is on.
5. Manage
your emotions.
·
Good leaders know when to display emotions and
when to delay them.
·
In war, it is necessary that commanders be able
to delay their emotions until they can afford them.
6. Manage
your time.
·
Time management issues are especially tough for
people in the middle. Leader at the top can delegate.
·“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your
time.” -M. Scott Peck
7. Manage
your priorities.
·
You must be ruthless in your judgment of what
you should not do.
8. Manage
your energy.
·
What is the main event?
·
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
·
“the ABCs energy-drain”
--Activity
without direction--Burden without action
--Conflict without resolution
9. Manage
your thinking.
·Poet and novelist James Joyce said, “Your mind
will give back to you exactly what you put into it.”
·A minute of thinking is often more valuable than
an hour of talk or unplanned work.
10. Manage your
words.
·“Show me what you can do; don’t just tell me
what you can do.”
·“The power of words is immense. A well-chosen
word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory,
and to save an empire.” If you wish to make sure that your words carry weight,
then weigh them well.
11. Manage your
personal life.
·If I can’t lead myself, others won’t follow me.
·If I can’t lead myself, others won’t respect me.
·If I can’t lead myself, others won’t partner
with me.
