Kevin Eikenberry has written a new book on leadership. It's called Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing
Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time.
And while it sounds like a leadership book, and you may not be in a leadership role, this is a book that I think everyone can relate to. (You will see more on that below.)
This book is practical, inspiring, relevant and real.
It introduces 13 leadership competencies, as the title says one skill at time.
And while it is a leadership book, and will help anyone regardless of their leadership experience become more effective, it isn't just for leaders.
This is a book for all of us, because all of us are leaders. And as Kevin says in the book, when we become better leaders, we become better humans.
I'd recommend this book to you any time, but never more urgently than today.
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* * * * Guest Article by Kevin Eikenberry * * * *
Remarkable Leaders Learn Continually
Excerpt from Kevin Eikenberry's new book "Remarkable Leadership"
Often when I am with a group helping them think about or work on their leadership skills, I do the following exercise (feel free to play along):
1. Close your eyes, think of the most effective leader you know, and get a mental picture of him or her. This person can be alive or dead, someone you know personally or have only read about or observed from afar. Whoever it is, see the person in your mind's eye.
2. Make a list of the behaviors or skills that this person exhibits-the things that make him or her so successful as a leader.
After people complete this simple exercise, I ask them to share the skills and behaviors they have identified. The lists I hear are long and cover many of the competencies explored in this book-except one. The skill that is almost always is missing from these lists is being a lifelong learner.
There is absolutely no question in my mind that being a continual learner is a key skill for leaders. In fact, I believe that it is the most important skill of all for leaders, yet it usually doesn't make people's lists.
(Did it make yours?)
Why don't people consider learning and add it to the list of traits of great leaders?
Because it is the underlying skill-the skill without which improvement in any other area is nearly impossible. If leaders aren't learners, they can't be remarkable. Perhaps learning is a skill that we don't think about because it is assumed, considered a given, or deemed obvious.
Whatever the reason, it doesn't change the fact that we must start with learning. And while we all know how to learn, remarkable leaders know that because it is the underlying foundational skill, as they get better at it, it will help them in all of their other leadership development efforts.
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