To sustain and grow their leadership skills, he said, great leaders also need to exercise their leadership muscles. Ask a busy executive, however, to spend two hours daily and the response will most likely be: \u201cMy schedule doesn\u2019t allow it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0His suggestion to them is to find ways to turn the playing field into a practice field.\u00a0\u00a0How do leaders do this? Throughout the day, they pause briefly before beginning each task or event and ask: \u201cWhat leadership skills, talents or knowledge will I put to use during this time? What challenges are here that will stretch me? How will this opportunity grow me?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n Great leaders don\u2019t settle for just maintaining their greatness. It is always about pushing their limits, stretching for the extraordinary. As the New Balance commercial tells us:\u00a0\u201cHappiness is pushing your limits and watching them back down.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>On your magnificent journey remember always the words of\u00a0Zig Ziglar<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cWhen you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.\u201d PUSH \u2013 Persist Until Something Happens!\u00a0<\/em>Be extraordinary. Be more than you ever dreamed you could be!<\/p>\n Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n Mike<\/p>\n To: the Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning At\u00a0HR.com\u2019s\u00a0recent\u00a0Lead2016\u00a0Conference\u00a0Jim Kouzes\u00a0reminded great leaders of the critical importance of their personal responsibility and commitment to self-development. In the sport… <\/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-2651","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\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"MIKE\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/09\/MIKE.jpg\")
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