{"id":2599,"date":"2015-11-30T09:28:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T14:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2599"},"modified":"2016-01-12T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T21:46:01","slug":"three-minute-leadership-owner-or-renter-mentality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/11\/three-minute-leadership-owner-or-renter-mentality\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Owner or Renter Mentality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>In a recent blog post by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/danryan\">Dan Ryan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryansearch.net\/making_a_difference\">Ryan Search and Consulting<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/x-webdoc:\/9F804153-A6B5-4A05-BC8C-AAA1EEE98E6E\/Are%20Your%20Staff%20members%20%E2%80%9COwners%20or%20Renters%E2%80%9D?,\">Are Your Staff members \u201cOwners or Renters\u201d?<\/a>, great leaders find a powerful metaphor about\u00a0<em>\u201cowners or renters\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and the mindset, attitude and behaviors they bring to life and the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Renters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May have some level of commitment, but may also be looking for the next place to rent on a regular basis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Understands what the basic rules are, but will usually not go outside the normal bounds when it comes to dealing with issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>May be put off by owners or those who seek to become owners versus renters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Might be looking for a way to reduce their investment in the company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking only at the short term, not the long term<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Owners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always looking for ways to make the workplace increase in value<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Seek out other owners as potential partners for the current or future situation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Willing to put aside short-term needs in order to save for long term investments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Understand the concept of \u201csweat equity\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Looking for others who can help increase the value of the workplace<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The renter mentality is\u00a0<em>\u201cone that is short-sided and more inwardly focused versus being focused on the whole.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0The owner mentality is one of commitment, individually and collectively to a shared purpose. One of the responsibilities of great leaders is continue to grow their\u00a0<em>\u201cowners\u201d<\/em>, while converting the\u00a0<em>\u201crenters\u201d<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>\u201cowners\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by serving them to realize their potential and purpose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inspirably.com\/quotes\/by-gail-okeeffe\">Gail O&#8217;Keeffe<\/a>\u00a0writes about joy of ownership:\u00a0<em>\u201cOwning your story, knowing your strength, tapping into your innate wisdom, practicing every day courage and living your life from the inside-out, authentically and wholeheartedly will set you free.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Be the owner of your life in all that you do and dream. Be more than you ever dreamed you could be \u2026 and more \u2026 so much more. Life is so very, very good.<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2476\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"MIKE\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg 188w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-88x88.jpg 88w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning In a recent blog post by\u00a0Dan Ryan,\u00a0Ryan Search and Consulting,\u00a0Are Your Staff members \u201cOwners or Renters\u201d?, great leaders find&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-minute-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","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=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2600,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions\/2600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}