I’ve added another book to my collection that I am quite excited about. Anyone who knows me personally knows that I have great love for books. I picked up The Daily Drucker which is a compilation of the best of Peter F. Drucker that was put together with Joseph A. Maciariello.

The Daily Drucker is “366 DAYS of INSIGHT and MOTIVATION for GETTING the RIGHT THINGS DONE” (leap year included). I intend to go through this book as the writer intended – one day for one passage of the legendary Drucker. What prompted me to buy it was a paragraph in the preface written by Drucker, “But the most important part of this book is the blank spaces at the bottom of its pages. They are what the readers will contribute, their actions, decisions, and the results of these decisions. For this is an action book.

Action

Action is the key. All thoughts, plans, concepts, and ideas are empty without action. You can spend all your time reading and discussing the finer details of leadership, but it will be all for nothing without action. Leadership requires you to go and do. You can only be and become a leader through doing leadership.

There is a famous quote that is a bit controversial because it may be misappropriated to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (read about it here). Nonetheless I like this quote, so I am going to share it with you.

Quote about action from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
 “What you can do or think you can do, begin it—boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”

Failure

Don’t let the fear of failure hold you back. Even if things don’t work out quite as you expect, you can still gain a great deal from experience and always remember the 3 Steps for How to Respond to Failure.

Be bold, be a leader, and take action.

Enjoy this article? Subscribe to my RSS feed.

Leadership quote from Ralph Nader:
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers .”

 Leadership is not about positions of power, building an entourage, coercion, or dominance.  Leadership is about mentoring, guiding, developing, and empowering.  It is about opening doors of opportunity, not getting everyone in a straight line.

 No individual in and of himself possess all the characteristics necessary to run a nation, an organization, or even a team.  A great leader knows how to surround himself with the great leaders of tomorrow that possess their own strengths, their own perspectives, and widen the knowledge and experience of the group or team.

 Ralph Nader starts correctly.  Leaders beget more leaders.

Enjoy this article? Subscribe to my RSS feed.