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Book Review:The Leader Who Had No Title – Robin SharmaIn a Nutshell.The book is a modern fable focusing on 4 for leadership concepts that encourage peopleand organisations to live out world class lives through the techniques taught in eachleadership conversation. The single best book for anyone from the CEO, the Street sweeperand in between. This book will offer you something exceptional.Snippets of First chaptersQuotable Quote: if everyone would sweep their own street the whole world would be clean.In light of a great organisation, “what would happen to the sound of s symphony if even oneof its players was out of tune and less the suburb at his art?” How many of your employeesare out of tune?No role is a small role – everyone needs to drive innovation. Everyone needs to inspire theirteammates. Everyone needs to embrace change. Everyone needs to take responsibility fortheir results. Everyone needs to be positive. Everyone needs to become devoted toexpressing their absolute best. And once they do, the organisation not only will adaptbeautiful to the changing conditions, it will actually lead within its field.Each one of us has total control over of how you show up in your current role. The highestof all human responsibilities is the ability each one of us has to choose how we respond tothe environment we find ourselves within.You must pay the price for success before the rewards are due to you. However, the lessyou focus on the goods you receive most of care about at work, the more you receive it.The best way to help poor people is to ensure you don’t become one of them.Quotable quote: “there’s only one of you in the whole world now and forever more. And noone else can ever be as good as you as you.”Average life is only 960 months or twenty thousand days. The days slip into weeks and theweeks become months and it all goes by in a blink.Your workplace can change from a dead end job and reshaped into something resembling awork of art.Snippets of Chapter 3Sad cost mediocrity and the spectacular rewards of leadership mastery:
Few things generate as much happiness as knowing that you are fully realising your genius,doing brilliant work, and spending your life beautifully.And with the catalystic change in our society right now, leadership has become the singlemost important master skill for success in business. We need to practice leadership in everyarena we play. If you can’t leader yourself you will never lead anyone around you.How to start: One of the best things you can do is get up early; it’s one of the mostintelligent daily practices the leaders without a title perform with acute consistency. –Plenty time for sleeping when you are dead. Getting up one hour earlier gives us an extrahour per day, 7 extra hours per week. That’s thirty fresh hours in a month. Almost an extrawork week every thirty days. That’s time you can exploit to build your plans, refine visionand develop your best projects. Time you can leverage to reflect on your values, removeyour inner barriers and rethink your thinking.Graves are great things – they serve to dramatically remind us of how short life is – youknow, we all end up in a pile of dust. And on your last day, all that truly matters is whetheryou got to know your inner leader, and if you did, whether you had the bravery to allow it tooffer it’s gifts to the world around you.Each one of us alone creates the lives we get to live.True human heartbreak is reaching your final moments and realizing that you wasted themost important gift that was given to you – the chance to present your magnificence to theworld around.Success is created through the performance of a few small daily disciplines that stack upover time to produce achievements far beyond anything you could have planned for.“Successful people all perform the same few leadership disciplines. They consistentlypractice the same few fundamentals. But their seemingly small, insignificant daily acts ofexcellence stack up over time to a best-in-class carer and world-class personal life.Failure on the other hand is a succession of a few bad fundamentals performed daily – suchas smoking. Which will amount to something greater than you expected – cancer or worse.Its small acts of daily neglect performed consistently until you reach point of no return (e.g.business bankruptcy).Sustained change only happens when we shift emotional rather than logical level.There is no dead end job in this whole wide unpredictable world of ours – only dead-endthinking.By infusing leadership into everything you do and each thing you touch, you can liveremarkably. You truly can realize your original genius. You really can be one of the greatones.
Life stands as a model of possibilityLeadership Conversations:The Book is based on four leadership conversations around creating leadership mastery.The first Leadership Conversation: You need No Title to Be a LeaderOne of the greatest freedoms each of us has as people is the freedom to choose how weview our roles in the world and the power we all have to make positive decisions inwhatever conditions we happen to find ourselves.You can choose to set yourself a high standard and deliver nothing less than my very best toeach job. When giving your absolute best you create your own ‘luck’. Always giving morethan your best at every job, steadily will improve your life.Lucky breaks are nothing more than unexpected rewards for intelligent choices we’vechosen to make. Success doesn’t just happen because someone’s stars line up. Success,both in business and personally, is something that’s consciously created. It’s the guaranteedresult of deliberate series of acts that anyone can perform.Anyone can truly be successful, but few choose to be.Too many of us take jobs for granted and fail to see all the positive results they contain. Wewish for something better rather than realizing we currently have. We just need to look alittle deeper, try a little harder and lead a little better.It’s impossible to build a tribute to success on the foundation of excuses. Never play victim,show leadership. True leadership is about having unshakable faith in your vision andunrelenting confidence in your power to make positive change happen. Albert Einstein“great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds”. If you stumble abit, that part of the game. You learn to walk by falling. You learn to lead by trying. Greatpeople construct monuments with the stones their critics throw at them.Go to work each and see yourself as an artist of sorts, and each day you’re fortunate enoughto be able to express your highest creativity on canvas that others call work. Titles bringpower. The power that comes with being a managing director, for example, only lasts for asthe person has the title managing director. If it’s taken away, all the power that wasassociated with it was taken out the door with it. The influence that comes with having atitle is fleeting at best.Firm yet friendly, tough yet tender and courageous yet compassionate.
Four Natural Powers:1. Each of us alive in this moment has the power to go to work each day and expressthe absolute best within us. And you need no title to do that.2. Everyone one of us alive today has the power to inspire, influence and elevate eachperson we meet by the gift of a great example. And you need no title to do that.3. Every one of us alive with life can passionately drive positive change in the face ofnegative conditions. An you need no title to do that4. Every one of us alive to the truth about leadership can treat all stakeholders withrespect, appreciation and kindness – and in so doing raise the organisations cultureto best of breed, and you need no title to do that.Simply remember that no matter what your position within any organisation and no matterhow old you are or where you live throughout the world, you have the power to showleadership. And no one and nothing can ever deny you that.There is a difference to being alive and knowing how to liveTwo choice really, Victimhood or Leadership. First time in history of man we have thisopportunity – every can lead in their work and within their lives. Shining example ofleadership – if you elevate the lives of ten people per day in three months that 300 peopleyou positively influenced. At the need of your year that over 3000 people.Management Tip:The single best move any organisation can make – whether the organisation is a business ora non-for-profit or government or school or even a nation – is growing the leadershippotential of every one of its constituents. Leadership versus victimhood – those who aresuperb at making excuses are usually are not suburb at doing much else. Victims live byexcuses – and ultimately die with them.You always behave in a way that is consistent with yourself image. So see yourself asnothing short of brilliant.Focus: Focus married with time produces mastery. You really need to focus on theparticular job you want for ten years. Only then you will be an overnight success. Along withthe excuses we make, we also allow ourselves to get distracted by a million little things andeventually amount to nothing. We all have the capability in us; very rarely do we have thediscipline to exercise it. The only economy that matters is the one between your two ears.Ideas: Ideas are ultimately worthless unless you activate them with focused and consistentaction. The best leaders never leave the site of a good idea without doing something – notmatter how small – to breathe some life into it. Lots of people have good ideas. But the
masters become masters because they had the courage and conviction to act on idea. Juststart whatever it is that you know you need to do to take your work as well as your life towhere you know it can be. Small consistent steps drive momentum. Daily Ripples ofexcellence-overtime- become tsunami of success.Practise of success – Daily 5Imagine doing 5 little yet focused acts everyday to get you closer to your most importantgoals. After one month that’s about one hundred and fifty goals you have realised. Thenafter 12 months, you’ve achieved over two thousand goals. Just imagine what the nexttwelve months would like, not only for your work, but your health, your relationships – youhave achieved over two thousand little but focused and meaningful outcomes.I – innovation. Daily and relentless progress. All great leaders flex their minds and elevatetheir abilities by consistently asking themselves “What can I Improve Today?” Make yourpresent better than your past, develop an innovative mindset. Daily ripples of superiorperformance add up over time to a title wave of outrageous success. Start off small andjust do little improvements every day. Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviourswill somehow present new results.M – Mastery . “What would the person who is the best in the world at what I do be doingright thus very moment”. Please note, you’ll find that you don’t have a lot of company onthat extra mile. Work wasn’t at all something that is merely a vehicle to pass the time andpay my bills. It was gift. And a spectacular way to access my leadership best and in doing so,not only become happier human being, but also to make the world a better place in theprocess.A – Authenticity: It’s never been so important to keep the promises you make to yourteammates and customers. It’s about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and thenhaving the courage to be yourself. Rather than defining success by what you get, theydefine their success by what you give.G – Guts in Business: Unrealistically persistent and wildly courageous. The more you leaveyour valleys of comfort in the passionate pursuit of your mountains of opportunity, themore obstacles you’ll face as you make your climb. On the other side of these obstacles liethe greatest rewards. Criticism is the defence reaction that scared people use to protectthemselves against change.E – Ethics: You will never go wrong in doing what’s right. There is nothing more importantthan being honest, highly dependable, staying on time and treating people the way youwant to be treated. Be ferociously humble. Make sure your video is in sync with your audio.Final thoughts on first conversation:
Leadership definitely is the single most important advantage of every world-classorganisation, the source of every great achievement, and the bedrock of everyextraordinary life.Second Leadership Conversation: Turbulent times Build Great LeadersPain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.“Keep in mind, difficult days never last, strong people always do”I may not be rich, but I have a rich life.As a leader without title, I had a natural power within me to determine what meaning Iattached to any circumstance I’d been presented with. By finding a positive and usefulinterpretation, I’d be flipping the switch from victimhood to leadership.I need to stop making excuses for what my life looked like, use previous experiences to buildand even brighter future.One intelligent insight can inspire you to make a decision that shifts you into revolutionarynew way of performing.Anyone in business is in show business.Change:If you stick your head under the desk and hope the avalanche of change will go away, you’llend up suffocating. “If you fight against it, you’ll end up in trouble”“It means, to ski down the tough runs you have to do the very thing that it seems youshould most avoid doing” From a skier perspective: If I don’t lean into the change that’scoming at me and instead try to protect myself by pulling back into my old way of operating,I’ll end up frozen on the mountain, so to speak. “The fear you have when going to your outer limits actually causes your limits to expandWhen it comes to skiing, anyone can look like a pro and ski on the easy runs. The true test ofyour ability is how you ski on the hard ones.“What you resist will persist, but what you befriend you begin to transcend”RISK: Take some i
The Leader Who Had No Title . to best of breed, and you need no title to do that. Simply remember that no matter what your position within any organisation and no matter how old you are or where you live throughout the world, you have the power to show leadership. And no one and nothing can ever deny you that. There is a difference to being alive and knowing how to live Two choice really .
