Comments on: Leadership: Know Yourself and Your Capabilities

By: Carpet Steam Cleaners

Carpet Steam Cleaners — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 07:49:08 +0000

I am enjoying this series. Thanks for the Post.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:13:12 +0000

@Helly, if only more companies would actually do training on leadership and management instead of just wishing it would reveal itself and come automatically.

By: Helly D.

Helly D. — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:51:00 +0000

I completely agree with the statement that Leadership is all about knowing yourself and your capabilities. Lately, I have read an informative article on this issue written by Med Yones, an Economic Expert who sees Leadership as the most important competitive advantage of a company. Moreover, he provides managers and leaders with the necessary information to implement a cure for poor organizational performance and its negative workplace politics. Further facts can be found by following this link
http://www.iim-edu.org/associates/medyones/executiveeeducationleadership.pdf

By: Hayli @ RiseSmart

Hayli @ RiseSmart — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:18:41 +0000

Great post – especially the part on feedback. Kevin Eikenberry @ Remarkable Leadership had a great post on this recently – where to get feedback, what to do with it, etc.

By: Mike King

Mike King — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:29:17 +0000

Thanks everyone for the additional comments and I’m glad some of the self analysis tools are useful.

@Prem Rao – I see your point on this subject and how my article could be taken as a limit on oneself. I certainly agree that it is wise to look also at who you want to develop into, especially when it comes to improving your leadership skills. However, usually people don’t look to change their core and instead try to act as a leader, based on what they think it should look like instead of putting good leadership practices into place in a way that fit’s who they truly are. That person can shift, but it’s a longer process and the leadership to get their is as much about leader oneself as it is about leading others. You can’t fake it, that’s all I mean by that.

By: Prem Rao

Prem Rao — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:14:22 +0000

Thanks for this post, Mike. I would like to add that while it is so very important to be yourself, the essence of development is to grow to be what you are capable of becoming. This is often done by modeling ourselves on others who have been successful -without losing our personal identity.

By: Dicki

Dicki — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:59:39 +0000

I like self analysis tools presented here,I think highly of them and try to apply in different situations,getting new experience in life.

By: Rich Life Equals Better Life

Rich Life Equals Better Life — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:31:46 +0000

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By: Start Blogging

Start Blogging — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:07:03 +0000

Mike, keep on writing posts like these and people will keep on reading. In my experience, not all people can be leaders and that the sad fact.

By: Isaac Yassar

Isaac Yassar — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:38:15 +0000

Great articles Mike. About self analysis tool, I’d like to share my best friend bad experience: he wanted to analyze himself, so he asked one of his friend about his weakness. Unfortunately the friend is his rival, and then she made up weaknesses he didn’t really had. When he sadly told me about that, I responded “What were you thinking? She is your rival, of course she makes those things up. I know you better then her, and it’s not true. She don’t want you to get any better. If you want to analyze yourself, ask your best friends who care about you.” Yeah, that’s ridiculous. Anybody has the same experiences?