Leaders of the future should be helped to increase their opportunities.  Bring people up through the ranks as quickly as possible, however do make sure that they are trained and equipped to take bigger positions. 

Waiting in line to be promoted is a thing of the past, people need to be given opportunities for advancement for filling bigger and better jobs.  

When good proven leaders are becoming close to retirement age and have been proven to be a great leader, they should work as a mentor and coach.  Older people too, need and want to have a purpose so that their life has satisfaction and there is nothing more fulfilling than helping people to grow and develop.  Do this and you will get a strong increase in people’s performance.

“Self-righteousness”. This behaviour results in people giving their own point of view more credence than the viewpoints that others express. And this is not necessarily a “bad” thing! But where it leads to problems is where the essential balance between the viewpoints of ourselves and others isn’t maintained. Then we become “captured” by the “rightness” of our own viewpoint, and give it more weight than is healthy for our relationships with those around us. People who are very knowledgeable are particularly at risk for self-righteous behaviour. Self-righteousness is about our unwillingness or inability to accommodate anyone else’s viewpoint. It’s fairly obvious that this damages our relationship with the people who hold those other viewpoints, and this in turn damages our ability to secure and maintain their support for our goals.

Self-righteousness is therefore self-defeating.

If you’re busy being right all the time, then it’s time to realise that the damage this is doing to your relationships isn’t worth it, and that it’s time for a personal shake-up. It’s also time to realise that any damage to your relationships is damage to your accomplishment.

WRITTEN BY BRIAN MARTIN

There has never been a greater need for leadership in the world than today.
Just cast your mind around the world and we see not a very happy or wonderful picture.
Economic, social and environmental events and activities do not seem to be working well.
There are riots, civil disobedience in many countries across the globe.

People are not happy with their leaders.  Approximately 60% of people want to change their job, and approximately 85% of people are not satisfied with the work they are doing and feel that they are capable to do more, but not given opportunities.  Again, this requires leadership.  I have heard many times over the course of my working life, ‘People are an organization’s biggest asset’, but then do very little to leverage that asset. 
Two things make money,

‘Money makes money’

‘People make money’

During this severe financial crisis, it would have been a perfect time for organizations to review how they were utilizing their people and looking for new ways to leverage productivity, and I do not mean, taking three jobs/positions and reducing them to two.  There is nothing new or innovative about cutting headcount.  This is where most of us go, when we are told that we have to cut costs.  We also cut the training budgets, at the very time when we should be developing our employees, to some different behaviors.  Obviously this is something many leaders do not realise as an opportunity and a must.
We should be looking to have leadership inside organizations that harness the brain power to activate and create transformation behavior.
We need authentic leaders, which is about a way of being, that is visible for employees to see.

It is not rocket science for leaders to take an interest in their people.
We only have to ask the question ‘How would I like my boss to treat me’ and then behave against your answers. 
I have said many times, there are NOT eight to ten skills of leadership.
I do acknowledge, that are eight to ten behaviors that will considerably enhance your leadership results.

In 1989, when we started to teach our ‘Leadership and Communication’ programmes, we were the only company that used the word ‘leadership’.
Everyone else used the word ‘management’.

Today there are 2500 organizations in the same territory teaching leadership.  Sorry to sound skeptical, but many of the people running these programmes have had zero experience in leading anything, other than themselves, which is a start, I suppose.
The opportunity, possibility and challenge for business is to seek out and operate in new and different ways, maybe a need to be socially responsible.
This is a good time for those of you who have the courage, tenacity and want to make a difference, to look at starting your own venture, whatever it is.
Passion is a requirement for you to have, and if you can find a product and service, that adds value to people’s lives, so that you ‘love what you do’ and ‘do what you love’ and be a possibility thinker.
There is a high possibility that you will be successful.

So if you are in the 60% who want to change their job, or the 85% who feel they are capable of doing more with their talent. 
Now just might be the right time for you to be that leader, the world so badly needs. 

Written by Mr.Brian Martin

Be honest with yourself, and be honest with others.

Facing up to your own truths can be painful, but as you probably already know intuitively, not facing up to your truths strongly inhibits you from accomplishing what you truly desire.

It’s also hard to know yourself if you’re not honest with yourself, with all the consequences.

It’s your choice: face your truths and grow, or avoid your truths and be stuck.

The benefits of facing up to your own truths are considerable. You’ll be able to respect yourself for your courage, which in turn allows others to see your courage and to respect you for it, which in turn makes it possible for them to follow your lead, which ultimately helps you to accomplish the outcomes you want.

How willing would you be to give your precious energy to someone’s cause when you saw that they weren’t being honest with you?

Being honest is more challenging than it seems at first glance. For example, do you always live up to your word? If you say to someone “I’ll get back to you tomorrow”, do you always do so? Or did you ever tell your child you’d be at their school sports and then not show up? Every missed commitment counts. You notice when other people miss their commitments, and they notice when you do.

“You can deal with anything if you’ve got honesty, because from honesty comes trust and with trust you can communicate.”

Be your own boss, start a small business, a home business, join a multi-level marketing business.  Do something that will put you in charge of YOUR talent.

You know very well that you have more talent and capabilities, than you are using.

Why don’t you take a RISK and jump into the driver’s seat of ‘YOUR LIFE’ and DECIDE what you want for your life?  Do you know that all SUCCESSFUL people have an ability to decide and make decisions? 

Unsuccessful people have great difficulty in deciding and making decisions.  They procrastinate, does this sound like you?  Do not feel embarrassed, this is the behavior of most people.  But it is not good enough is it?  NOT making a decision, not deciding, will not get you what you want. 

If you want to start your own business, I am going to give you eight steps, eight keys, eight behaviors, eight ingredients that you will need to be successful in starting your own business. 

They are NOT rocket science, they are plain common sense.  You probably know these things.  You, up until now, have not practiced using them.  I have been using them since I was 18 years old, which allowed me to start my first business when I was 20 years old, which led me to being able to buy my first apartment house, when I was 21 years old.

If you need to read my bio, which shows I am credible to share this information with you, will show you I graduated from small business to CEO of multinational corporations.

You will notice as you read and hopefully practice the eight steps, is that they are ALL important and they are all interdependent on one another, for your success.

Number 1

Every successful business needs to have a vision, a dream, and an aspiration.

Research shows that organizations that have a vision make considerably more profit than those businesses that do not have a vision.  This of itself is an important reason for having one.  ‘Making money’

What is a vision, a dream, an aspiration and why is it important to have one.

To have a dream, is much more powerful than most of us realise.

A dream is like us having a destination, a target, something we are aiming for, something for us to aspire to.  If this is clear, it then becomes something we are ‘inspired’ with.  Inspired means to be ‘in spirit’, it becomes the essence of who we are.

Vision is the big picture of possibilities of what could be.  A vision if we achieve it is our future success.  If a vision is compelling, it almost has a magnetic force that draws us to it.

A vision is a powerful motivator, if we have employees, yes even one employee.

We all want to belong, and if your staff can see their company’s vision, is something they can relate to, then they want to come to work, because it is part of who they are.

Coming to work becomes a ‘want to’ not a ‘have to’.  A vision for your company will probably be about a product or service you want to provide to people, which will add value to their life.

You might like to do this little test?

What would you chose to do, if you could NOT fail.  This should give you a strong clue of what type of product or service, that you might like to get your live involved in.

A vision is an image of the future, it is not yet real.  It is a dream that you can aspire to in your mind.  Many people undervalue or do not understand the power of the mind.

Communication is very important in sharing your vision to your employees, family, and suppliers.

It needs to be communicated in such a way that people can see value in it for themselves, then they will willingly commit their time, energy and resources to your vision and it becomes their vision.

The vision then becomes the foundation of a strong corporate profile.

It can become the heart of your organization and what your organization stands for.

Vision creates alignment, which is very powerful.  It means everyone is moving positively forward, working in cooperation, to achieve the vision.

It helps to build confidence, many businesses develop a slogan around their vision.

A vision keeps us focused, it gives us a discipline to create objectives and strategies to achieve the vision.  In other words, vision can help us to pursue our dreams, our future opportunities.

• Vision without action, is merely a dream
• Action without vision, just passes the time
• Vision with action, can change the world