Leadership Shorts-Jeremie Kubicek

• An empowering leader trains, mentors, and apprentices someone to help him or her grow.
• To be a positive influence and a leader worth following, you must deal with your own insecurities and fears before you can empower others.
• The combination of character and high competence leads to the outflow of trust and credibility.
• Overpowering leadership suppresses people and prevents them from performing with enthusiasm and creativity.
• To empower is to enable someone else to accomplish something. It is a transfer of authority.
• To lead in the modern world, you have to focus on what the world wants and needs instead of what makes you comfortable.
• Empowering leaders tend to be very self-aware. Their intent is to use their skills to serve and benefit others.
• Influence is the most potent and underutilized professional resource on the planet.
• The greatest strategy for business, success and personal fulfillment is not based upon getting all you can. Instead it is centered upon giving all you can.
• To have true influence, you must embrace a lifestyle of giving for the benefit of others.
• To empower is a positive act of service for the benefit of others, and it should be the goal of every leader.
• To have true influence, you have to move beyond the transactional approach to life and into the relational.
• To believe is to eliminate the fear of missed expectations.
• The eyes and heart are interrelated. What the eyes are fixed on reveals what the heart was already set on.
• Wisdom is far better than knowledge. Wisdom is good for both they who speak it and those who hear it.