{"id":1603,"date":"2016-05-25T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2016-05-25T21:57:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T21:57:17","slug":"leadership-nuggets-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Leadership Nuggets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Leadership.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1607\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1607\" src=\"http:\/\/chadstutzman.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Leadership.jpg\" alt=\"Leadership\" width=\"580\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Leadership.jpg 580w, https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Leadership-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I recently read through &amp; discussed James Kouzes &amp; Barry Posner&#8217;s book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Truth-about-Leadership-Heart---Matter\/dp\/B004423YBW\/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1464213214&amp;sr=8-8&amp;keywords=the+truth+about+leadership\"><em>The Truth About Leadership<\/em><\/a> with a group of guys.\u00a0 Here are some of my nuggets I took away from the book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Before you can lead others, you have to lead yourself and believe that you can have a positive impact on others.<\/li>\n<li>Before anyone is going to willingly follow you-or any other leader-he or she wants to know that you are honest, forward-thinking, inspiring and competent.<\/li>\n<li>If you don\u2019t believe in the messenger, you won\u2019t believe the message.<\/li>\n<li>You cannot fully commit to something that isn\u2019t important to you-no one can.<\/li>\n<li>People won\u2019t follow you, or even pay much attention to you, if you don\u2019t have any strong beliefs.<\/li>\n<li>Spend more time in the future. You have to carve out more time each week to peering into the distance and imagining what might be out there.<\/li>\n<li>Looking backward can actually enable you to see farther than if you stare straight ahead.<\/li>\n<li>The best leaders take actions that make people strong and capable. They make people feel that they can do more than they thought they could.<\/li>\n<li>Often, people just lack a little courage and confidence. They blossom when they have a leader who believes in them and gives them support and encouragement<\/li>\n<li>Tremendous energy is unleashed when constituents trust you!<\/li>\n<li>To be a leader you need to make something happen. You need to feel a strong sense of commitment, believing that you can find something in whatever you are doing that is interesting, important, or worthwhile.<\/li>\n<li>You can\u2019t lose focus when there are lots of distractions all around. You can\u2019t hop from one thing to the next without completing what you started. It\u2019s called grit!<\/li>\n<li>People are always watching you.<\/li>\n<li>Learning agility\u2026is the ability to reflect on experience and then engage in new behaviors based on those reflections.<\/li>\n<li>If you want to be the best leader you can be, you will have to attend to your weaknesses.<\/li>\n<li>Love enlarges lives. Love creates the desire to serve others and to see them grow and become their best.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope you can also learn from some of these quotes.\u00a0 It may be a reminder or a new challenge.\u00a0 We are all leaders to some degree whether at home with our families, at work, at church or in your community.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve heard this many times and I believe it that everything rises and falls on leadership.\u00a0 Lead On!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently read through &amp; discussed James Kouzes &amp; Barry Posner&#8217;s book called The Truth About Leadership with a group of guys.\u00a0 Here are some of my nuggets I took away from the book: Before you can lead others, you have to lead yourself and believe that you can have a positive impact on others. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/?p=1603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leadership Nuggets&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-leadership","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1608,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadstutzman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}