Leadership

You know you have attended many leadership courses, and many of them are very very powerful, but the minute you walk out of that room, you return to your normal life and somehow manage to forget what struck you so strongly in there. I wonder why?

This week I had chance to lead a core school in which leadership is once again a center topic. Before I talked about this to the school participants, I was trained on how to talk about it in a way that will make difference to folks. One thing that became quite clear is if you want anything to happen, it takes about 100 days to develop certain initial pattern. Put it simply, you force yourselves to do something over and over again for 100 days then you will find it hard not to do it beyond that point. Leadership is the ability to make changes that add value. In 100 days, if you force yourselves to practice anything and everything that is true to the principle of true leadership, this will become a habit and you will find it easy to stick to it. You can do a lot of things in 100 days, such as learn a new language, any new US president needs to brief the nation in 100 days on major progress, and it took Napoleon 100 days from exile to an ill-fated campaign that ended his career. We can all do a lot of things in 100 days, I am starting right here at home.