Monday, April 26, 2010

Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be

In Success Magazine Leadership expert Robin Sharma provides tools and insights to help you Lead Without a Title and perform at your absolute best.

All these Wonderful articles can be found on success magazine ,these articles are very insightful and filled will quality content ,so i wanted to share this with my readers.

"You cannot lead others until you have learned to lead yourself. Many have become victims of their circumstances rather than overcoming them, which leads to an addiction to excuses.” -- Robin Sharma

Posts by Robin Sharma

  1. Sharma: Make a Dent in the Universe
    When I met the president of Israel, Shimon Peres, I asked him what he believed the purpose of life to be. He replied without hesitation, “to find a cause that’s larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.”
  2. Sharma: How Exercise Affects Leadership
    You know I’m an evangelist for the idea of being ultra fit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make. Exercising will make you look better, feel stronger and fill you with boundless energy. Staying fit will even make you happier.
  3. Sharma: Avoid the 4 F’s Syndrome
    Most training and learning doesn’t last. No stickiness. We attend a seminar and vow to transform our lives. We say we’ll be better parents, more effective leaders and wiser human beings. Two days later, it’s back to business as usual—seeing the negative, playing the victim and being cranky. The learning didn’t work because we didn’t change.
  4. Sharma: Work Hard, Get Lucky
    That old line remains brilliantly true: “The harder I work, the luckier I get.” Life helps those who help themselves. I learned that one from personal experience.
  5. Sharma: The Time Tactics of Leaders
    One of the things the best of the best in business (and life) do staggeringly well is they leverage time to create spectacular results. We all have the same amount of time in a day/month/life. Those who use it poorly live half lives. Those who use it well become superstars.
  6. Sharma: The 8 Forms of Wealth
    In my mind, wealth and leadership aren’t just about making money. There are actually eight elements that you want to make sure are at world-class levels before you call yourself rich (and truly successful).
  7. The Deeper Your Relationships, The Stronger Your Leadership
    Leadership is a people sport. The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.
  8. Sharma: Turbulent Times Build Better Leaders
    Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common sense is rarely common practice. One of the best moves you can make to “Lead Without a Title” is to train your brain to see every problem as an opportunity. And every setback as a steppingstone to build your skill, access more of your talent and create more exceptional value for your customers.
  9. Sharma: How to Do World-Class Work
    Leadership no longer has to do with the title on your business card. In this age of deep disruption, the new way to lead has everything to do with how powerfully you influence, how brilliantly you work and how superbly you collaborate. Your position matters less than your passion. Your rank matters less than your willingness to go the extra mile in all you do, and to wow each of the stakeholders lucky enough to cross your path.
  10. Sharma: Leadership 2.0 The New Way to Win
    The old model of leadership is obsolete. Businesses that were once admired have crumbled. Leaders who were once revered (in fields ranging from commerce to sports) have lost face. The respect for Wall Street has been replaced by a renewed passion for Main Street. And with it, has come a completely new way to lead.
  11. Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be
    When it came time for Robin Sharma to carve out a life for himself, becoming a lawyer seemed right. Although he had loving parents, there was never abundance during his childhood, and he was determined to find a way to prosper as an adult. His life as a litigation lawyer provided money, status and all the trappings of the success he envisioned. But Sharma felt something was missing—that a vital part of him was silently starving to death.