Leadership Characteristic Trait #8
We continue our ten
part series on Leadership Characteristics based on a Harvey McKay weekly blog.
The research for
these ten words came from a four-year series of executive seminars conducted by
Santa Clara University and the Tom Peters Group/Learning systems. This list first appeared in Management Review
Magazine). These thoughts are my own
creation.
Leadership
Trait #8
Courageous
Do
you want a picture of a leader who shows great courage? Allow me to borrow from Brene Brown’s book Daring Greatly.
“The credit belongs to
the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat
and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again.
“If he
fails, at least he fails daring greatly.”
Courage
does not mean that we will always win, but it does mean that we will always
dare greatly.
A
courageous leader?
One
who is bold, daring, gutsy, and audacious.
Let’s
dig deeper. My friend Kevin Hall talks
about this concept with new language. He
uses the word …
SAPERE VEDERE
(sah-PARE-ay veh-DARE-ay)
What Kevin means is this: “You
must learn to see beyond the clouds. Believing
is seeing.”
And he continues: “People
with Sapere vedere say “I’ll see that bridge before I cross it.”
~Kevin Hall
Aspire
A leader with courage never allows his/her eyes
to determine what the heart believes.
It comes down to this: It is insight – not eyesight. And a leader of stellar qualities has
INSIGHT!
Kevin takes us home with this thought: “Visualization
is the first key to a successful future.”
Got courage?
Dare to see what can’t yet be seen.
Love this idea from Mr. Thoreau.
“Go confidently in the direction of your
dreams.”
~Henry
David Thoreau
Having
the guts to act on insight takes great courage.
And sometimes, that is all we have to go on.
P Michael Biggs
Offering
Hope
Encouragement
Inspiration
One Word
at a Time
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