Ten Leadership Wisdom Principles
(1) Leadership is a responsibility and not a position or big title
(2) To lead is to sacrifice and to serve if you are not sacrificing or serving you are not leading.
(3) When you lead everyone will not follow your vision, some will disagree with you and leave.
(4) The people that are the closest to you have greatest potential to hurt you the most
(5) There are no summits or pinnacle to reach in leadership development, it’s a progression and journey and not a destination.
(6) A leader must know that people will not be able to do for you what you did for them, they will not be able to reciprocate your kindness.
(7) A leader must have the thick skin of a rhino, the brilliant mind of a scholar and the believing heart of a child.
(8) A leader must handle private, sensitive and privileged information about other people carefully and correctly.
(9) A leader must not fight every battle you will never win a spitting match with a skunk you will be smelling like a skunk for a long time.
(10) Leadership is costly there is a price to pay for leadership, loneliness and being criticized all the time is part of the package.