LIGHTEN UP

AND

CLICK ON THE POSITIVE!

     REAL leaders realize thay can’t change their boss, or their board of directors, or their company’s business, or their co-workers or employees, or their constituencies or communities, but that they CAN change the course of events—and influence change in others—by changing their attitude about those around them and those they represent.

     The scope and ramifications of various leadership positions vary with circumstances, but the ability to motivate by example is what ultimately makes the difference in reality, in getting things done. 

     When President Dwight David Eisenhower was a military leader on the front lines, he called his underlings together and dropped a tangled ball of string on the table in front of them.  To demonstrate the concept of leadership, General Eisenhower pushed the string with two fingers and proved his point that the clump stuck together with no ability to organize or surround the enemy or move effectively in any direction. 

     Then , using the same two fingers, he instead grasped the end of the string and pulled it . . . clearly illustrating that control increased with pulling and decreased with pushing. 

     Look at the leaders around you.  Are they pushing or pulling?  Look at yourself!  Are YOU pushing or pulling?  Are you getting the results you’re capable of?  Perhaps re-examine the attitude you’re exercising? 

     Studies show that treating ALL subordinates as though they have the potential to advance and achieve will produce subordinates who advance and achieve. 

     In other words, your positive expectations ALONE can help those you represent or those who report to you to accomplish their best.  Change is only difficult if you try to impose it on others or if you choose for it to be difficult. 

     Choose instead to help other implement change for themselves, and for it to be easy; it will be.  If you’re still stuck with where to begin, try a smile; then pass it on.  

Remember. . . 

you are your attitude! 

     A positive attitude breeds optimism, enthusiasm, animation, presence, zeal, courtesy, physical appearance and poise, sincerity, self-confidence, and belief and trust in those who surround you.    halalpiar