10 business leadership lessons from pope francis | jeffrey krames
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Tune in at http://33voic.es/ind3p6l As former Vice President and Publisher of McGraw-Hill’s trade business books division, Jeffrey Krames has personally edited and published more than 300 business books, including many award-winning, best-selling titles on business luminaries that include Jack Welch, Michael Ovitz, Ross Perot, William Paley, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Herb Kelleher and Lou Gerstner among others. Recently, Mr. Krames published seven of the top 35 best business books of the year as determined by Library Journal. In 2006, Mr. Krames become the Editorial Director of Portfolio/Penguin.TRANSCRIPT
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HOW TO LEAD WITH HUMILITY
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As former Vice President and Publisher of McGraw-Hill’s trade business books division, Jeffrey Krames has personally edited and published more than 300 business books, including many award-winning, best-selling titles on business luminaries that include Jack Welch, Michael Ovitz, Ross Perot, William Paley, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Herb
Kelleher and Lou Gerstner among others. Recently, Mr. Krames published seven of the top 35 best business books of the year as determined by Library Journal. In 2006,
Mr. Krames become the Editorial Director of Portfolio/Penguin.
JEFFREY KRAMES@jeffreykrames
President of JK Literary Services
Leadership starts with the assumption that you don’t have all the answers:
| … he that wants to be a leader of the people of God has to give God His space; therefore to
shrink, to recede into oneself with doubt, with the interior experiences of darkness, of not knowing what to do, all of that ultimately is very purifying.
Insight #1
Insight #2
While the humble leader always listens to her heart; she never stops
seeking advice from those she respects.
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Focused more on saying than doing
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Focused more on giving orders and less on uplifting others
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Trapped into believing that your title is more important than your purpose
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Following the rules instead breaking them
Insight #3
If you’re not getting ahead as a leader, you’re likely:
Not facing reality
Insight #4
It’s much easier to judge what someone can’t do than to assess where that person’s hidden
genius lie | “….Who am I to Judge”
Insight #5
If, as a leader you do what comes naturally to you, you’ll hardly care about the opinion of others.
Insight #6
“….Power is something that God gave to humanity” - Harness it to achieve the loftiest of goals that will
advance society, not just your role within it.
Insight #7
Likable leaders connect better with others because they always tell the truth.
Insight #8
We all have a duty to do good - “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns
to the broader concerns of all humanity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Insight #9
It’s a sign of strength when a leader pays attention to non-customers - for they are the
ones who will most likely expose the changes that will impact your business.
Insight #10
Change is inevitable, but reinventing yourself is a conscious choice - “the real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands
but in seeing with new eyes.”
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