The 12 principles of highly successful Leaders
1. Be true to character
2. Use your imagination
3. Apply the power of knowledge
4. Never give up
A good leader will guide people through all the problems, but a truly successful leader will never give up no matter what. It will find the way to guide its followers through the roughest situations.
5. Find peace and balance
In order to find peace and balance many other lessons need to be learned first. Peace and balance are the reward of knowing you have chosen the right, and always take the right decision.
6. Live the Golden Rule
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
This rule has been tagged as golden for a reason, it is a rule that can change your life in a positive way. People will normally say or act the way others treat them. In order to be treated with respect and in a positive way, you need to do the same.
7. Build and maintain trust
Trust is something really hard to acquire because it is only given to those who have proven worthy of receiving it. Doing simple tasks as keeping a promise, and always telling the truth are ways to get someones trust. Trust is like a screw, it is what hold structures together, but once it is removed it can collapse. Being able to trust someone means being able to focus on your own job because you are aware that they are going to put everything from their part to accomplish the task. One example i have of trust is when my football companion and i would play every game, we had tremendous trust for each other because we both knew that in case one of us made a mistake the other one would be there to help out. We also did not have to worry because we would play at our top performance every game of season. That is an example of trust.
8. Quick to listen slow to wrath
When something bad happens people are always going to get involved, eventually everyone is going to tell their own version of the story, and that is what causes all the problems. The people that listen to what happened are going to make their own conclusion, and that is when a highly successful leader can be discovered. Those who listen to what happen and take their time to judge the person, or take action on the situation are highly successful leaders, but those who take action the moment they become aware of what happened will eventually do a mistake that is going to make the situation worst.
9. Lead with vision
It is easy to tell people what to do and call yourself a leader. The complicated part is to be an actual leader, not just have the tag. A great leader is someone who inspires others by being the example, and support the rest of the group when it is needed. A leader is capable of doing many other things other than helping out, a leader also builds and maintains the trust, and leaves by the golden rule.
10. Manage with a plan
Building a house takes a lot of work, it requires for many people to be leaders, trust is essential between everyone, keeping in mind to never give up, and using the power of knowledge is a key concept, but all this will have no meaning if there is no plan to make all this possible. To be able to build a solid and trustworthy building a good plan must be obtained first. This principle also applies on everyone's life, because things will never be accomplished with out a plan, it might be possible to become someone important but that importance is going to be unstable since no plan was fallowed and something could have gone wrong during the building progress.
11. Do what matters most
Make sure to always do the important things first. There are things that can not be left aside because they are going to bring negative consequences such as loss of trust, people coming to you last, being left as the bad guy. It is extremely important to always attend important things first.
12. Be accountable
By being an accountable person, you are allowing for everyone to see that they can trust on you. Being accountable will open many doors and create many opportunities. Not everyone can be accountable since many let themseves be taken control of by lies and excuses.
