{"id":1826,"date":"2014-02-09T21:35:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T02:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2014-02-09T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T02:36:15","slug":"three-minute-leadership-character-the-heart-of-extraordinary-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2014\/02\/three-minute-leadership-character-the-heart-of-extraordinary-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Character&#8230; The Heart of Extraordinary Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">To:\u00a0 The Great leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">John Wooden, renowned UCLA basketball coach, said: \u201cBe more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.\u201d It is character that makes great leaders great. It is that by which they are known, not so much for their great deeds or skills, for without character these would be overlooked.\u00a0 Anne Frank underlines where the ownership of character-building rests:\u00a0 \u201cParents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person\u2019s character lies in their own hands.\u201d It is forged through experience. Courageous and honest choices made \u201cwhen no one was looking.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Character is the bedrock of leadership greatness, shaped and formed in every experience and decision taken. On your magnificent journey remember the words of Charles Spurgeon, British Baptist preacher: \u201cA good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.\u00a0 Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.\u201d May you touch the hearts of many, inspiring them to lives of extraordinary greatness that they may live their dreams and change the world.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;font-size: small\">Mike<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To:\u00a0 The Great leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning John Wooden, renowned UCLA basketball coach, said: \u201cBe more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1829,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}