30 Remarkable Leadership Lessons

30 Remarkable Leadership Lessons

Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”  Are you the type of leader whose impact is so significant someone “remarks” about you?  If so, you have, by definition, become a remarkable leader.  Recently, I finished the book Remarkable written by Dr. Randy Ross and David Salyers.  David is currently serving as Vice President of National, Regional and Local Marketing for Chick-Fil-A.
This is a wonderful book for anyone needing to reverse negative momentum or simply build a solid leadership foundation.
The following are 30 Remarkable Leadership Lessons to make you a better leader:

1. Leadership is about influencing people to make conspicuously unusual choices that bring health and happiness to life and work.
2. Leaders knew, intuitively, that the employee experience and the customer experience were inseparably linked.
3. A clutch player has the emotional constitution of a winner.  Clutch players become evident in times of challenge and transition.
4. Where trust is high, resistance is low.  Therefore, change and progress come quickly.  Conversely, where trust is low, resistance is high.  Therefore, change and progress come slowly.
5. Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them. – Albert Einstein
6. Excellence never comes by comparing yourself to others.
7. As leaders, we know exactly what we want from our people.  But what do we want for our people?
8. Life is all about creating value.  The secret to fulfillment is in seeking to bring value to every endeavor.
9. When your value grade exceeds your pay grade, then you become invaluable to the organization – if not indispensable.
10. Either we choose to resist change and stagnate…Or, we choose to embrace the situation and grow.  Choosing to grow leads to transformation, while choosing otherwise leads to degeneration…We all become the product of our choices.
11. Poor choices narrow your options, while good choices open a whole new vista of opportunities.
12. Humility allows us to see ourselves honestly, without pretense, and leads to greater self-awareness.
13. There will always be an abundance of folks who are willing to offer their opinions…A good student learns best by asking the right questions and then selecting wisely whom he will allow to provide him with the answers.
14. You must choose carefully whom you will allow to influence your decisions.  Good counsel perpetuates good choices.  Bad counsel perpetuates bad choices.
15. When authenticity and humility are present, unity is often the result.  And unity is the most powerful force in the universe for the creation of good.
16. A person’s character is revealed through his values.
17. How we view things will drive how we do things.
18. Living on purpose means you live purposefully, with purpose, and for a purpose.
19. We are designed to create value in life.  There are essentially two approaches to life: one seeks to extract value from every endeavor and the other seeks to create and bring value to every endeavor.
20. It is important to teach our kids to win with grace and lose with dignity.
21. The people I know who possess the greatest character are those who have overcome their losses and challenges to rise victoriously on the other side.
22. Strong organizations always put people ahead of profits because they know that if you do right by our people – internally and externally – then the profits will follow.
23. Every organization creates transactions.  But, great organizations create powerful relationships through the superior value they bring to the table.
24. Some of the most successful people often don’t think that they are.
25. If you want to create an environment of innovation, you need to give people time to think and dream – while on the clock.
26. One of a leader’s greatest responsibilities is to shift the emphasis of work from “making a dollar” to “making a difference” in the lives of others.
27. True greatness comes in direct proportion to passionate pursuit of a purpose beyond money. – Jim Collins
28. Focusing on weaknesses keeps the spotlight on self.  Focusing on strengths keeps the emphasis on how to bring value to others.
29. Success if a by-product of creating value.  Happiness is a by-product of creating value.  Significance is a by-product of creating value.  Fulfillment is a by-product of creating value.
30. “If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life.” – Truett Cathy

You can buy Remarkable by clicking HERE.  After reading, it will help you become a leader people remark about.