{"id":2967,"date":"2018-03-25T13:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2018-03-25T13:40:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T17:40:14","slug":"three-minute-leadership-fueling-your-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2018\/03\/three-minute-leadership-fueling-your-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Fueling Your Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In her recent blog post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alimontag\/\">Ali Montag<\/a>, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/03\/16\/elon-musk-on-inspiration-and-success.html\">Elon Musk Explains His Motivation to Succeed: \u201cThere Needs to Be Things That Inspire You\u201d<\/a>,<\/em> writes about Elon Musk and the mindset that inspires and fuels his success. As founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\/\">SpaceX<\/a>, \u00a0Musk\u2019s current endeavor is to bring life to Mars. In a South by Southwest Conference in 2013, he humorously said: &#8220;<em>I&#8217;ve said I want to die on Mars, just not on impact<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To provide a framework \u00a0for her discussion, Montag introduces the article with the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ernest_Shackleton\">Ernest Shackleton<\/a>, the famed Antarctic explorer: \u201c<em>When famed explorer Ernest Shackleton was recruiting men to come along on his 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, the story goes that he published this ad for the job: \u2018Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey. Small Wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success<\/em>.\u2019&#8221; The search for these early explorers, Musk says, will be much the same: \u201c<em>difficult, dangerous, good chance you\u2019ll die, excitement for those who survive.<\/em>&#8221; So are the challenges for great leaders on their journeys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Montag captures Musk\u2019s exciting, adventurous and success-focused mindset in the words: \u201c<em>focusing on optimism and rejecting limitations<\/em>\u201d. Musk has said: &#8220;<em>You want to wake up in the morning and think the future is going to be great\u2026. It&#8217;s about believing in the future and thinking that the future will be better than the past.\u201d <\/em>It is about \u201c<em>finding \u00a0purposeful work and focusing on the positive changes you can effect<\/em>.\u201d It is this inspirational \u00a0spirit of daring, risk-taking and ceaseless &#8211; of never, ever giving up &#8211; that drives the achievement of their life\u2019s purpose..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Musk may be going to Mars as one stop on his journey. But he and other great leaders have their eyes on something greater\u2026 the stars and beyond. May this be the spirit that fills every morning wake-up in your life \u2013 to think and believe \u201c<em>the future is going to be great<\/em>.\u201d And it will be, because you will choose it to be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2788\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2016\/10\/MIKE.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning &nbsp; In her recent blog post, Ali Montag, Elon Musk Explains His Motivation to Succeed: \u201cThere Needs to Be&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4049,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","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\/4049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2968,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}