What are your practice principles?
Mandatory:
- Be good at what you do a lot.
- Limit how many things you intend to be good at.
- Give and get feedback .
- Get the best assistant(s) you can.
- Create sustainable competitive advantage.
Discretionary:
- Degree of transparency
- Style of play
- Amount of time spent on pressing and handling pressure
Self-belief to the point of arrogance is the height of vanity. Seek understanding not validation. There is no best way, only a search for better ways.
Lagniappe:
Goodwin defines leadership as the "ability to use talent, skills, and emotional intelligence to mobilize people to a common purpose...to make a positive difference in people's lives."
She notes that Presidents she studies were mostly self-made although born with some valued traits. "Nobody gets away with being brilliant and not working."
Lincoln - empathy and language
Teddy Roosevelt - insatiable curiosity
FDR - optimism
LBJ - unbounded energy
Declaring ourselves a leader doesn't make it so.