THE Book on… Business from A to Z: The 260 Most Important Answers You Need to Know.
Barry Pogorel authored the Leadership chapter in THE Book on… Business from A to Z: The 260 Most Important Answers You Need to Know.
We encourage you to get the book. Here is an excerpt:
I investigate myself. A man’s character is his fate. -Heraclitus (c. 540-470 BC)
Most books and teaching about leadership are descriptive and prescriptive. Describing how to dance doesn’t make a good dancer. Prescribing how to lead doesn’t make a good leader. It gives no portal into being a leader. Most of us didn’t listen to what our mother told us to do (had we, it would have saved a lot of time). Why? Our actions don’t come from what we have been told, read, or know, but from what we are committed to. Simple, but profound. To develop power as a leader, get committed to something that requires this.
Take on something big. Put your stake in the ground for what others (and perhaps you) have said is impossible, and find a way to do it. Heraclitus said “Your character is your fate.” Conversely, your fate, or future, is your character. I don’t mean the future when it happens (certainly this will affect you)—I mean right now, what is your future? It shapes and defines you and what you must do. A leader develops her character by taking on something big, seeing what is needed to accomplish it, and letting it form who she must be.
Barry Pogorel authored the Leadership chapter in
THE Book on…Business from A to Z:
The 260 Most Important Answers You Need to Know
