Two Facts:
- When it comes to doing business, inspired People generate better results.
- Business Leaders can inspire their People.
Another even-more-important Fact:
- You can expand your ability to inspire the People who follow your Leadership.
This is an accurate statement, regardless of how well you inspired your People in the past.
The keys are:
- Accepting the fact People will need your injection of Inspiration: they need and want that from their Leader.
- Working at it: taking specific inspiration-actions designed to accomplish specific inspiration-results.
Wise folks have taught this throughout the ages.
Here is one example: about people who are struggling, in 1926, Robert Collier1 wrote:
"For men and women like them do not need "Charity" - nor even sympathy. What they do need is Inspiration - and Opportunity - the kind of Inspiration that makes a man go out and create his own Opportunity."
Everyone struggles from time to time.
The People who follow your Leadership will struggle from time to time.
So - from time to time, your People will need an injection of Inspiration.
As a Leader, you can assume or hope somebody else will deliver that injection of Inspiration. Or, you can embrace it as part of your role.
Spirited Leaders will choose to embrace it.
HOW?
There are many ways...1-Page Tools are really helpful.
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Spirited Leader's Definition of INSPIRE2:
- to exert an animating, enlivening influence on
- to encourage, impel, & motivate...to excite and impart motion, to bolster focused Action
Footnotes:
- 'The SECRET of the AGES', Robert Collier (1926)
- based on Merriam-Webster's on-line dictionary definition
- Were You Born to Inspire Action?
- Inspired Measures
Reader comments (8)
Comments from the original blog platform, 2008–2021.
Rick ·
"Inspiration begins with emotional commitment." Deepak Chopra 'The Soul of Leadership', (2010)
rick baker ·
"If you have great feeling in the beliefs you present, you inspire others with at least similar emotions." Frank C. Haddock 'Power of Will', (1907)
rick baker ·
"We little realize what a large part of our achievement is due to others working through us, to their sharpening of our faculties, radiating hope, encouragement, and helpfulness into our lives, and sustaining and inspiring us mentally." Orison Swett Marden ‘Pushing to the Front’, (1911)
rick baker ·
"The whole purpose of existence is GROWTH." Robert Collier 'The SECRET of The Ages', (1926)
rick baker ·
"Work devoid of meaning and spirit, work without the discipline and satisfaction of a job well done, is work without joy." Laurence G. Boldt 'ZEN and the art of making a living', (2009)
rick baker ·
"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent." Vincent Van Gogh
rick baker ·
“There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.” Simon Sinek, 'Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action'
Rick Baker's Thoughts ·
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