An effective style grows from within you. It should be entirely yours. No one except you should have a style exactly like yours.
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If you want the people with whom you work to improve their performance, first improve your own. If you want others to expand their capabilities, first expand your own.
In this chapter, we’ve identified the elements of style that are common among effective leaders. They are:
- Authenticity
- Decisiveness
- Focus
- Personal Touch
- Hard/Soft People Skills
- Communication
- Ever Forward
As we got bigger, so my interest in fashion grew, and I started to see the art in fashion instead of just clothes that cover my back. Style and music are interlinked, feeding off each other. I was becoming aware of how I could use fashion as a tool to enhance my stage show and my personal self-worth. Clothes directly influence my mood – if I get it right my confidence is boosted and I feel high on life with the audience in the palm of my hand. Get it wrong and I feel like a scruy mouse that needs to crawl back into its tiny hole. I have to feel comfortable in my own skin, so what I wear has to be functional and suit my shape.
Leadership effectiveness flows not from following the leadership recipes of others, or in having something we might call a “leadership personality.” There cannot possibly be a universal recipe for leadership, for the simple reason that we are all encoded differently. The key is to trust your own leadership encodings, not to follow someone else’s. If someone offers you a leadership recipe based on what worked for them, remember that it worked for them because it reflected their encodings, which likely differ substantially from your encodings. It’s okay to have a recipe for leadership, so long as it is your recipe that flows from your encodings and your inner fire.
2.6. Setting the Standards
It is inevitable if you enter into relations with people on a regular basis. . . that you will grow to be like them. . . . Place is an extinguished piece of coal nest to a live one, and either it will cause the other one to die out, or the live one will make the other reignite. . . . Remember that if you consort with someone covered in dirt you can hardly avoid getting a little grimy yourself.
- Epictetus