If you wish to try an experiment that will prove both interesting and profitable, pick out any acquaintance whom you know to be a person who never does anything that he or she is not expected to do, and begin selling them your idea of Initiative. Do not stop by merely discussing the object once, keep it up every time you have a convenient opportunity. Approach the subject from a different angle each time.
You cannot talk initiative to others without developing to practice it yourself.
"He who lives by the sword will die by the sword." properly interpreted, this simply means that we are constantly attracting to ourselves and weaving into our own characters and personalities those qualities that our influence is helping to create in others. If we help others develop the habit of Initiative, we, in turn, develop this same habit. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
Leadership and Teamwork
They always say that time changes things, but you can actually have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
The price of leadership
When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world it becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few.
If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone, if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a wagging.
Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting.
Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius.
Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done.
The leader is assailed because he or she is a leader, and the effort to equal them is merely added proof of their leadership.
Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy but only confirms the superiority of what it is that the follower strives to supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass.
And it all avails nothing.
The Leader who truly leads remains the leader!
A real leader cannot be slandered or damaged by lies of the envious, because all such attempts serve only to turn the spotlight on the leader's ability, and the real ability find a generous following.
Attempts to destroy real leadership is love's labor lost, because. That which deserves to live, lives!
Cooperation
No one can accomplish enduring results of a far reaching nature without the aid and cooperation of others.
When two or more persons ally themselves in any undertaking, in a spirit of harmony and understanding each person in the alliance thereby multiplies his or her own of achievement.
Wherever you find this teamwork you find prosperity and goodwill on both sides without it, prosperity suffers.
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
-Dwight Morrow
Cooperation is said to be the most important word in English language.
So important is this principle of cooperation that no leader can become powerful or last long who does not understand and apply it in their leadership.
Lack of cooperation has destroyed more business enterprises than have all other causes combined.
Lack of cooperative effort has been a curse to the human race throughout the ages.
You are paying, and your children and your children's children will continue to pay for the cost of waging wars, because nations have not yet learned that a part of the world cannot suffer without damage and suffering to the whole world.
If you would be a real leader, you must realize that everyone in the world will not share your ambitions. Some people will oppose you directly. Others will agree to with you in small ways, and still others will say, "YES, that is a worthwhile goal, but i would go about it another way."
The key is to find those points on which your interests intersect with those around you, and to use those points as means of moving forward. You may eventually part ways with some or most of your followers, but if you have been an effective leader, they will all go their own way feeling that they benefited from their association with you.
Nor can it be truthfully said that all the evils of the world are confined to the affairs of state and industry. Look at the churches and you will observe the damaging effects of lack of cooperation.
You cannot talk initiative to others without developing to practice it yourself.
"He who lives by the sword will die by the sword." properly interpreted, this simply means that we are constantly attracting to ourselves and weaving into our own characters and personalities those qualities that our influence is helping to create in others. If we help others develop the habit of Initiative, we, in turn, develop this same habit. If we sow the seeds of hatred and envy and discouragement in others, we, in turn, develop these qualities in ourselves.
Leadership and Teamwork
They always say that time changes things, but you can actually have to change them yourself.
-Andy Warhol
The price of leadership
When a man's work becomes a standard for the whole world it becomes a target for the shafts of the envious few.
If his work be merely mediocre, he will be left severely alone, if he achieve a masterpiece, it will set a million tongues a wagging.
Jealousy does not protrude its forked tongue at the artist who produces a commonplace painting.
Whatsoever you write, or paint, or play or sing, or build, no one will strive to surpass or slander you, unless your work be stamped with the seal of genius.
Long, long after a great work or a good work has been done, those who are disappointed or envious continue to cry out that it cannot be done.
The leader is assailed because he or she is a leader, and the effort to equal them is merely added proof of their leadership.
Failing to equal or to excel, the follower seeks to depreciate and to destroy but only confirms the superiority of what it is that the follower strives to supplant.
There is nothing new in this. It is as old as the world and as old as the human passions envy, fear, greed, ambition, and the desire to surpass.
And it all avails nothing.
The Leader who truly leads remains the leader!
A real leader cannot be slandered or damaged by lies of the envious, because all such attempts serve only to turn the spotlight on the leader's ability, and the real ability find a generous following.
Attempts to destroy real leadership is love's labor lost, because. That which deserves to live, lives!
Cooperation
No one can accomplish enduring results of a far reaching nature without the aid and cooperation of others.
When two or more persons ally themselves in any undertaking, in a spirit of harmony and understanding each person in the alliance thereby multiplies his or her own of achievement.
Wherever you find this teamwork you find prosperity and goodwill on both sides without it, prosperity suffers.
The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
-Dwight Morrow
Cooperation is said to be the most important word in English language.
So important is this principle of cooperation that no leader can become powerful or last long who does not understand and apply it in their leadership.
Lack of cooperation has destroyed more business enterprises than have all other causes combined.
Lack of cooperative effort has been a curse to the human race throughout the ages.
You are paying, and your children and your children's children will continue to pay for the cost of waging wars, because nations have not yet learned that a part of the world cannot suffer without damage and suffering to the whole world.
If you would be a real leader, you must realize that everyone in the world will not share your ambitions. Some people will oppose you directly. Others will agree to with you in small ways, and still others will say, "YES, that is a worthwhile goal, but i would go about it another way."
The key is to find those points on which your interests intersect with those around you, and to use those points as means of moving forward. You may eventually part ways with some or most of your followers, but if you have been an effective leader, they will all go their own way feeling that they benefited from their association with you.
Nor can it be truthfully said that all the evils of the world are confined to the affairs of state and industry. Look at the churches and you will observe the damaging effects of lack of cooperation.
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