The Four Laws Of Leadership (part One)

Written by Brent Filson


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Law 2. Motivation is their choice. Many leaders are clueless about motivation because they think it's their own choice. They think because they simply want people to be motivated, people should automatically be motivated. That misunderstanding has caused many a leader to come to grief. The act of their being motivated is not your choice, it's theirs, always. Motivation can't be done to people. People must "do" motivation to themselves. Leaders communicate, andrepparttar people they lead motivate themselves.

Law 3. Emotion drives motivation. The words emotion and motivation come fromrepparttar 122645 same Latin root "to move". When you want to move people to take action, engage their emotions. Motivation involves emotionally commitment.

Law 4. Face-to-face speech is generallyrepparttar 122646 best way to motivate people (i.e., have those people choose to be motivated.)

With these concepts in mind, you can begin to get a clear understanding of motivation by studyingrepparttar 122647 past.

This exercise will sharpen your ideas on motivation. Who wererepparttar 122648 three most effective leaders in history? Why were they effective? Who wererepparttar 122649 three least effective? Why were they ineffective? Who arerepparttar 122650 most effective leaders in your industry? Why are they effective? Who arerepparttar 122651 least effective leaders in your industry? Why are they ineffective? Who arerepparttar 122652 most effective leaders in your organization? Why are they ineffective?

Now go back over each answer and tie it to motivation or lack there of. What motivational lesson is there in each answer? In doing so, you may find yourself changing and sharpening your ideas about motivation; and hence changing and sharpening your leadership skills.

In Part Two, I will expand on each law.

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Brent Filson is the founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. – and for more than 20 years has been helping leaders of top companies worldwide get audacious results. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: "49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results," at http://www.actionleadership.com


The Four Laws Of Leadership (part Two)

Written by Brent Filson


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Law 3. Emotion drives motivation. The words "emotion" and "motivation" come fromrepparttar same Latin root meaning to move. When you want to move people to take action, you must engage their emotions. I'm not talking about getting people emotional. I'm talking about having people make strong emotional commitments to what you're challenging them to achieve.

The best way to make that emotional connection is with Leadership Talks.

My experience working with thousands of leaders world wide forrepparttar 122644 past two decades teaches me that most leaders are screwing up their careers. On a daily basis, these leaders are gettingrepparttar 122645 wrong results orrepparttar 122646 right results inrepparttar 122647 wrong ways.

Interestingly, they themselves are choosing to fail. They're actively sabotaging their own careers.

Leaders commit this sabotage for a simple reason: They makerepparttar 122648 fatal mistake of choosing to communicate with presentations and speeches -- not leadership talks.

In terms of boosting one's career,repparttar 122649 difference betweenrepparttar 122650 two methods of leadership communication isrepparttar 122651 difference between lightning andrepparttar 122652 lightning bug.

Speeches/presentations primarily communicate information. Leadership talks, onrepparttar 122653 other hand, not only communicate information, they do more: They establish a deep, human emotional connection withrepparttar 122654 audience. For more onrepparttar 122655 Leadership Talk, click on my website inrepparttar 122656 resource box.

Law 4. Face-to-face speech is generallyrepparttar 122657 best way to motivate people (i.e., have those people choose to be motivated.) A middle-manager told me, "Where is our new CEO? We call him‘Elvis'. We seldom see him in person. There're only purported sightings of him. Maybe I'll see a blurry photo of him in one of those supermarket check-out tabloids."

In another company, a secretary said, "Our division chief stays in his office most ofrepparttar 122658 time. But onrepparttar 122659 rare occasions that he's out and about,repparttar 122660 only evidence of his existence isrepparttar 122661 odor of his pipe smoke."

Isolation may be good for monks but it's an affliction with leaders. When you want to motivate people, relationship isrepparttar 122662 name ofrepparttar 122663 game; and you can't have a relationship, at least a productive one, as an absentee leader.

Get out and about. This is more than MBWA, (Management By Walking Around). The key is what you do when walking around. Don't be about simply sharing information but also creatingrepparttar 122664 environment for motivation. People hunger to be motivated. Even more: people are ALWAYS motivated. And if they won't be motivated for your cause, they will be motivated for their cause – a cause that may be at cross purposes with yours.

Make no mistake: Motivation isn't about bands playing, people cheering, hugging, and singing kombaya. Those are onlyrepparttar 122665 surface features of motivation. True motivation happens inrepparttar 122666 profound quiet of human relationships.

So, in your interactions, strengthen those relationships by keepingrepparttar 122667 laws of motivation in mind. When interacting with people, challenge them to take physical action, understand that motivation is their free choice, their HEARTFELT free choice, give Leadership Talks to develop deep, human, emotional relationships; and take opportunities to speak with them face-to-face.

2005 © The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

Brent Filson is the founder and president of The Filson Leadership Group, Inc. – and for more than 20 years has been helping leaders of top companies worldwide get audacious results. Sign up for his free leadership e-zine and get a free white paper: "49 Ways To Turn Action Into Results," at http://www.actionleadership.com


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