7 Leaders Who Gave Life a Different Outlook

Quoting John Maxwell, “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and little less than his share of credit”. Leadership is a quality rarely found in people, although all of us aspire to be one.

We all look up to one or more people in our life, people we wish to be like and imbibe their leadership qualities. To some, it may be Steve Jobs or Mahatma Gandhi, or your boss that acts like a true leader for your professional and personal growth.

I am sure you might have encountered someone in your life whom you consider as a great leader. We all hope to be that leader we aspire. Don’t we?

Steve Jobs once said, "Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use."

Well, we have listed some great leaders of our society and their bits of advice that’ll inspire you to be like them. Or, we hope so. *Wink*

1. Always be Serious About Learning

Learning is a key factor that’ll drive you to achieve your desired goals. Instead of procrastinating like a pro, we must focus on grasping knowledge about as many things as possible.

“The more you learn, the more you know”, simply doesn’t mean to learn everything in a haywire structure but it means to learn and grow with the knowledge you have to structure it.

Dan Lok, Global educator and international best-selling author of “Unlock It".

2. Choose Your Subordinates Wisely

An organization successfully runs due to people working in it. You can be a great leader but if you do not have great followers in your team, everything goes down the drain.

“It's easy to build an empire alone, but it's difficult to maintain it by your own”, always remember anyone who you think can surpass your success someday should definitely be there on your team.

Jack Ma, Founder of Alibaba Group and a Philanthropist.

3. Be Humble

Kindness is the only thing that cost nothing but can help you build everything. To learn the attributes of a person, you must be humble to them instead of implying your supremacy, coz that is what will make you a great leader.

“Being courteous can help you win battles, but assertiveness will snatch away your weapons”, take into account the fact that the person who works below your position can surpass you someday too and appreciate it.

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States, Author, Attorney turned Politician.

4. Have A Mentor

Following somebody’s steps is not bad until the point you develop their habits as your religion. Having a mentor helps you to learn from their good and bad moves. The good ones, you need to imbibe and the bad ones are what you need to learn from.

“A predator never shows up all his cards, but they always keep in mind the single aspect that made the previous king lose his place”, never forget that once you were able to take somebody’s place in the food chain then nobody else will be able to take yours.

— Bedros Keuilian, founder of “Fit Body Boot Camp” author of “Man Up” and host of “Empire Podcast Show”.

5. Master Personal Communication

A personal touch is what adds value to communication. In this digital era where everything functions through digital means, a leader needs to maintain personal contact with his team. Lack of personal touch has always been a matter of concern in high-end business operations and a good leader is one who is able to overcome it.

“If you know how to play with your words, you can even sell a comb to a bald person”, personal interaction is always golden especially in the fields of marketing to help get the client proper view of the product you are selling to them.

Craig Ballantyne owner of “Early to Rise” and creator of “The Perfect Day Formula” and “Social Story Telling System” author of the WSJ best-seller “Unstoppable”.

6. Learn the Art of Networking

Just like a mobile network helps you connect to people all around the globe, similarly creating networks help you to meet new people, learn new things and sustain in the market.

“Anyone can be there at your rescue at some point of time, you just need to build a strong connection with them”, it’s rather easy to grow longer rather than stronger which is the reason why networking helps in building up stronger relationships with people to cater with at a certain point of time.

Rudy Mawer, founder, and CEO of ROI Machines and RudyMawer.com; Facebook marketing and an expert, who built a multimillion-dollar business by age 26.

7. Stop Holding Yourself Back

Researches prove that a person adapts himself as per his will and tend to work accordingly. If he wishes to create his limits and abide by them, he would.

“We create our own limitations, lesser the number of limitations greater the level of growth” if you want to carry out something just do it without thinking about its repercussions just to make your body habitual to avoid restrictions in life.

Katrina Ruth, founder, and CEO of "The Katrina Ruth Show" a multimillion-dollar online coaching business for entrepreneurs.

You are your own master and nobody can confine you in walls. You just ought to be yourself and be the change you seek. None is a born leader, you become one as you imbibe the leadership qualities you wish to see in your leaders. So folks, procrastinate no more, take these little bits of advice and do wonders.