The Most Important Ingredient of Leadership.... Do You Know What It Is?

YES! YES! YES!

The GREAT Edward here,

Hope everyone had a FANTASTIC Weekend!  I sure did...

It is officially Spring time here in London Ontario Canada.

I love this time of year... 

Daylight Savings Time Kicks in and we have more hours of sunlight...

All things that Died out for the Winter are coming back to New Life...

Life is good....

A few weeks ago I was on a Mastermind call with a few of my friends and we were talking about Leadership.

One of the things we dug into was the question...

"What is the most important ingredient of leadership?"

John C Maxwell answers this question in his book "Developing the Leader Within You" as

  INTEGRITY

So... What is Integrity anyway?

The dictionary defines Integrity as: The state of being complete, unified.

Interesting...  What does it mean to be Complete? 

When I looked up that definition I found Complete to mean: Having all Necessary or Normal parts.

Also Interesting...

So when we have Integrity...

We are in The state where we have all Necessary and Normal Parts.

   OR

   Our faith, beliefs, thoughts, words, and deeds match up. 

   I am who I am, no matter where I am, or who I am with.

Is Integrity something that others think of you or is it something you think of yourself?

I believe that Reputation is what other people think you are and Integrity is what we really are.

and... Our Reputation is determined by our Credibility.

Hmmmm.... How does Credibility fit into this idea of Leadership?

Well, the more Credible you are,

the more Confidence People will have in You,

and therefore Allowing You the Opportunity of having an Influence in their life... 

Since I believe that Influence is the core of Leadership (See my post What is YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN? - RE-RE-ViSiTeD...), therefore Integrity must be the most important ingredient.

That's AWESOME!

So there you have it, the most important ingredient of Leadership is INTEGRITY.

So what does Integrity mean to you?

How do you see it working in your life?

Leave your thoughts below.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

Make it a great day!

God Bless!

BTW - If you follow me on Twitter or are a friend of mine on Facebook you know that I love quotes. I have a bunch of them that I carry around with me in my pocket and when I get a chance I take them out and read them.  One of them I would like to share with you today....  It goes like this:

      "Who You Refuse To BE Is Responsible For All That You DON'T Got."

                 ~ The GREAT Joe Schroeder from The Million Mind March

What is YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN? - RE-RE-ViSiTeD...

YES! YES! YES!

The GREAT Edward here,

Hope everyone is doing Phenomenal on this Amazing Day!

This is the ThiRD Installment the serious of posts on YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN!

If the First One What is YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN? we discussed:

"You will only earn income to the degree that you can be replaced"

In the Second Installment What is YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN? - RE-ViSiTeD... we discussed:

"The Role that Value Plays"

In this post I want to take a look at the second component which is InFluence.

Let's start by defining InFluence as ... "The Ability to Obtain Followers."

There were many People of InFluence in this world such as...

Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill, JFK, Jesus and even Hitler.

Each of these People had the Ability to Obtain Followers.

(whether for the purpose of good or not we can leave for another post :-)

Some interesting points about InFluence:

1. Everyone in this world InFluences someone...

2. We never know Who or How Much we InFluence others round us... and

3. It is a skill that can be developed.

So, let's look for a moment at the Idea of Success.

How do you Measure Success in your areas of your life?

In your Business?

Well, that's easy... RIGHT?

Business = $$$ (The amount of money I earn)

Is this the TRUE Measure of Success?

It seems like Something is Missing....

Check this out...

If your Business Disappeared or went away Tomorrow...

What would you do?

How would you recover?

How long would it take?

Hmmmm...... Interesting Questions???

I have come to realize that People partner with People in Business.

And They are People that They Know, Like, and Trust.

This is where I see InFluence comes in.

To have true Success that will last beyond any Business you MUST have InFluence.

The ability to lead others along Your Direction towards Your Vision!

So next time you think of measuring the success in your business, ask the question...

How is my InFluence rather than How Big is my Pay Check...

Share your thoughts below!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!

God Bless,

What is YOUR CaPaCiTY to EARN?

YES! YES! YES!

The GREAT Edward here,

Heard this a few times this week from a Mentor of mine The GREAT Joe Schroeder and the Master Mind Group at The Million Mind March and had to share it.

And it goes a little something like this...

"You will only earn income to the degree that you can be replaced."

So, what does that mean?

Is there a limit to the Income I can earn?

Is it easy for someone to Replace me?

Well, simply put, here's how it is...

Lets say you Work at a JOB where you get Paid, lets say $51,000/yr.

You come to Work Every Day and DO Your JOB.

You get there at 9 am and leave by 5 pm Every Day.

Always get done what you can in the 8 hours that you have.

Maybe there is someone else that would be willing to Work at Doing Your JOB for $51,000/yr.

Hmmmm...

Does that mean that I could be replaced for $51,000/yr?

Yes it does!

And Therefore Your CaPaCiTY to Earn at that JOB is $51k/yr.

Interesting eh?

Now listen to this...

Your Working at Your $51K/yr. JOB and there are people willing to Do it for $40K / yr.

Watch out...

You might be out of that JOB soon.

So that's it... Pretty Simple Formula. Not too much Math here to Worry about.

But... the question You NEED to Be asking Yourself NOW is...

How do I keep My JOB?

How do I Increase our Capacity to Earn?

I'll give you a hint...

2 words...

Value

and

Influence

More on this later this week.

Share you thoughts below.

Make it a great day!

God Bless,

-ed