{"id":439,"date":"2011-12-18T20:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cld\/?p=439"},"modified":"2011-12-18T20:51:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T00:51:14","slug":"three-minute-leadership-thoughts-on-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2011\/12\/three-minute-leadership-thoughts-on-greatness\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Minute Leadership: Thoughts on Greatness"},"content":{"rendered":"

To:\u00a0 The Great Leaders Who Have a Passion for Continuous Learning<\/p>\n

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Recently I attended a Women in Leadership Workshop<\/em> at which a video, Will Smith Wisdom<\/a>, was played as an inspiration for great leadership \u2013 in all its passion, commitment, possibilities and belief.\u00a0 The following are Smith\u2019s inspiring words about life. Enjoy the wisdom and build it as part of your life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Greatness<\/em><\/strong> – \u201cGreatness is not this wonderful esoteric elusive god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. It is something that truly exists in all of us.\u00a0 It is very simple.\u00a0 This is what I believe and I am willing to die for it.\u00a0 I know who I am and what I believe, and that is all I need to know. And from there you do what you have to do. We make this situation more complex than it has to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Talent and Skill<\/em><\/strong> – \u201cThe separation of talent and skill is one of the greatest misunderstood concepts for people who are trying to excel who have dreams and who want to do things. Talent you have naturally.\u00a0 Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.\u00a0 Where I excel is (through my) ridiculously sickening work ethic. While the other guy is sleeping, I am working. While the other guy is eating, I am working. There is not easy way around it. No matter how talented you are, your talent is going to fail you if you are not skilled.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Passion and Commitment to Being the Best <\/em><\/strong>– \u201cThe only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is I am not afraid to die a treadmill. You might have more talent than me.\u00a0 You might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things:\u00a0 you get off first, or I am going to die.\u00a0 It\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Focus on the Moment<\/em><\/strong> – About his father\u2019s lesson to him after tearing down a wall and telling Will and his brother to rebuild it:\u00a0 \u201cNow don\u2019t you ever tell me, there is something that you can\u2019t do. You don\u2019t try to build a wall; you don\u2019t set out to build a wall\u2026\u00a0 You say I\u2019m going to lay this brick as perfectly as perfectly as a brick can be laid, and you that every single day and soon you have a wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Serving Others<\/em><\/strong> – \u201cI want to do good.\u00a0 I want the world to be better because I was here.\u00a0 I want my life, I want my work, my family I want it to mean means something.\u00a0 If you are not making someone else\u2019s life better, than you are wasting your time. Your life will become better, by making other lives better.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Believing <\/em><\/strong>– \u201cThe first step before anybody else in the world believes it is you have to believe it.\u00a0 There is no reason to have a Plan B, cause it distracts from Plan A.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Seeing Possibilities<\/em><\/strong> – \u201cI think that there is a certain delusional quality that all successful people have to have.\u00a0 You have to believe that something different than what has happened for the last 50 million years of history you have to believe that something different can happen\u2026.Confucius said he who says he can and he who says he can\u2019t are usually right\u2026. Being realistic is the most commonly travelled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What\u2018s the point of being realistic? I am going to do<\/em>.\u00a0 The second I decide it\u2019s done, it\u2019s already done.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Choice Is Power<\/em><\/strong> – \u201cThere is a redemptive power that making a choice has. Rather than feeling that you are an effect to all things that are happening, make a choice.\u00a0 You just decide what it\u2019s going to be, who you\u2019re going to be, how you\u2019re going to do it. Just decide, and from that point the universe is going to get out of your way.\u00a0 It\u2019s water.\u00a0 It wants to move and go around stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We have greatness, power and possibility beyond our belief.\u00a0 The choice is in our hands.\u00a0 Fill your life with passion.\u00a0 Make people\u2019s lives better.\u00a0 Remember the title of Steve Job\u2019s new biography, The Journey is the Reward<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0Have fun on yours along the way.\u00a0 It will be a magnificent journey.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mike<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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