Generosity...Recipe for Leadership

Leaders must be generous and predisposed to give their resources to others. As leaders, we must believe that a candle loses nothing when it lights another. The biblical law "Love others as yourself" is synonymous with leadership. Show concern, show care, show love and people will follow you.

According to John C. Maxwell, "You can give without loving, but you can not love without giving." Leaders who fail to display generosity should ask themselves: Do I really love the people I lead? Researches have shown that when great leaders err, they always err on the side of generosity. And do you know the resource they seldom give? It's TIME.

Beloved leaders, kindly create time for caring, loving, listening, sharing and giving to your followers.

Art of Delegation

Time has become so inadequate! As owner or manager in charge, it’s too easy to believe you should be the best at or involved in everything in the business, which is impossible. You should be spending time identifying the strengths and weaknesses of you and the team then using everyone (yourself included) as effectively as possible. Most people, myself included, sometimes guilty of trying to mould a set job around people or vice-versa rather than looking at individual tasks separately then assigning the various aspects to the people whose strengths are in those areas. We get preoccupied with 'a job' sometimes rather than sets of specific tasks which require certain skills. Sadly easier said than done when involved in an owner managed business and after throwing the bane of all our lives into the equation - ad-hoc work!

Leaders, let's take advantage of delegation of duties...so that you could free up time to think about other areas of the business.

Habits...Future

According to Mark Victor Hansen, “If you want to distance yourself from the masses and enjoy a rich and unique lifestyle, understand this - your habits will determine your future."

The fact is, if you keep on doing things a certain way, you will get a predictable result. That's the simple law of Cause and Effect. Successful habits create positive rewards. Negative habits breed negative consequences.

If you want to enjoy longevity, you must have healthy habits. If you are in the habit of starving your most important relationships of time, energy and love, how can you expect a happy outcome? If you spend money extravagantly or don't save any money, your bad habits will lead you to a never-ending cycle of work.

Shift yourself out of your bad habits and always believe that you have a destiny to be great.