Leadership is Earned Through Your Actions

Motivational Power Quote

Leadership is Earned Through Your Actions

“Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a

teammate you’re ready to play tough as you’re able to, you

better go out there and do it. Players will see right through

a phony. And they can tell when you’re not giving it

all you’ve got.”

Larry Bird, Professional Basketball Player and Coach

 

As I see it . . . . . . .

Leadership is earned through your actions

As a consultant you can see this leadership scenario repeating itself . . . . over and over again.

It happens with a new manager, a new owner of a business, new team leader, in a promotion and as well as in many other areas of leadership and in life.

The person steps into a new position that has a title or leadership responsibility . . . . having the title doesn’t make the person the leader. Leadership is earned through . . . . your personal actions.

The person with the title has the authority . . . . but earns the right to be called a leader. 

The number reason a leader fails in their position is not in knowledge or expertise . . . . It’s in their lack of ability to earn the title of leader in the eyes of the people that work with the leader and as a result there is a less respect for the person in the position.

Leadership is earned through your actions . . . . and can lose it very quickly the same way.

©2013 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author