| While leadership and business management are | | | | overhead, and revenues for the future. |
| defined differently by everyone - especially those | | | | Those responsible for leadership and business |
| who are selling business leadership management | | | | management within the organization must have |
| training and consulting services, leadership is simply | | | | strength, stamina to keep on keeping on in their |
| the ability to meet the needs of those who are part | | | | continual battle against "good enough" and all the |
| of their organization, those who depend on the | | | | other momentum busting attitudes so prevalent in |
| organization directly or indirectly in any way, and | | | | organizations today. When business is great no one |
| other individuals and organizations as well. | | | | wants to change what's working. When business is |
| Simply however does not mean simple and it certainly | | | | bad no one wants to make changes that might make |
| does not mean easy. In fact two of the most | | | | things worse. |
| important requirements of leaders, attributes that can | | | | No one except a leader that is. Of course stamina |
| not be learned from a book - are not part of the | | | | could mean physical stamina, but today it is more |
| curriculum of any leadership and business | | | | likely to mean emotional stamina. As each leader |
| management training program I have ever seen - | | | | moves up to an ever higher level in the organization - |
| have been requirements of leaders for all of known | | | | to the next higher level of leadership and |
| history. | | | | management responsibility, the demands on the |
| When it comes to leading an organization in the 21st | | | | emotions increase. These are the demands that |
| century, leadership and business management skills | | | | directly attack their stamina, their ability to stay the |
| must be present at every level of the company - no | | | | course against all odds and those would never |
| matter how large or small it is. Naturally the | | | | challenge the status quo. |
| opportunities to lead and the limits of their | | | | It is crucial that leaders at every level of the |
| effectiveness - as it relates to the entire | | | | organization have the stamina to recover rapidly from |
| organization, are determined by the nature of their | | | | disappointment for example. They must be able to |
| position within the power structure. | | | | bounce back from defeat and discouragement. |
| The tenets of leadership and business management | | | | Leaders must be able to carry out the responsibilities |
| have not changed much during all of recorded history, | | | | of their jobs without losing a clear picture of the |
| Leadership is today what it has always been, the | | | | situation, no matter how much and how fierce the |
| ability institute change into an already functioning | | | | opposition. |
| system. Leaders ask the question, "just because it | | | | And they must have the emotional strength to |
| doesn't appear to be broken, does not mean it | | | | persist in the face of difficulty. |
| should not be improved does it?" when considering | | | | Physical strength and stamina are vital to both the |
| every facet of their organization. | | | | leader and their organization. If the leader of off sick |
| In successful organizations those with leadership and | | | | or taking "mental health days" they may not be on |
| business management skill are always remodeling. | | | | the scene to lead at a critical moment. |
| They are always making something new - something | | | | Leaders then must have both the physical to endure |
| within the structure of the company is being looked | | | | whatever physical demands of leadership that |
| at today and seen as it will look tomorrow - then | | | | present themselves - as well as the emotional |
| constructing something sustainable that will lead the | | | | strength to withstand the daily attacks that always |
| business to continued improvement of conditions, | | | | result when someone insists upon change! |