A Blog about Leadership

Last week, I started the new weekly article series with How to Create a Foundation for Developing Leadership Potential with the first two steps:

1. Recognize what you know that you do not know, write it down, and then learn.
2. Recognize there are things you don’t know that you don’t know and create a lifetime of continuous learning.

Continuous Learning

Today, I want to focus on leadership development by focusing on a lifetime of continuous learning.

John C. Maxwell on leadership development:
“Leadership develops daily, not in a day.”

Write, Learn, and Practice

Last Wednesday, I wrote Developing as a Leader Takes Time So Start Today.  In short, you will not be a great leader at the age of 27 and I know that I personally have many years ahead of me of learning and developing as a leader.  One major focus of my learning and developing is this blog where I can think about and write about leadership.  That powerful act of writing about leadership is a powerful act of developing my personal leadership potential; that is why I write this blog.

3. Take time to write out your thoughts on leadership.

You don’t need to start a blog or write a book, but take the time codify your thoughts.  You are invited to comment on my blog and I will engage you in a dialog to work together on developing leadership.

4. Learn Daily and start learning today

This is no more powerful force of change and development than a positive, daily habit.  Take learning, changing, and developing on an incremental, daily process to produce the greatest impact on your life.  You can read my blog, read other blogs, read some good books, or review leadership quotes.  What ever you do, do it daily.

5. Practice Leadership

I should add “daily.”  Each day, you will be presented opportunities to lead.  Tomorrow I am going to write about the most difficult place to lead (so come back tomorrow), but that place is somewhere that you are nearly every day.  For practicing leadership, there are four basic steps: To Be, To Develop, To Think, To Lead.

See also: How to Create a Foundation for Developing Leadership Potential Part 1, How to Create a Foundation for Developing Leadership Potential Part 3.

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