3 Simple Ways to Become a Great Leader

Hello, I'm Brian Tracy and I'm going to share with you now three simple ways to become a great leader. Now, the rule is that leaders are made, not born. They create and develop their leadership qualities by becoming men and women with core values of fine character and integrity. Your greatest personal asset is the way that others know you through both your personal and and your business ethics. It is your personal reputation for keeping your word and fulfilling your commitments. Your core values and business ethics and leadership qualities precede you and they affect all of your interactions with other people. What do other people think about when they think about you? A key to developing integrity and character in yourself is to study people of great character. Study the core values and leadership qualities of people like George Washington and Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher. Study the people whose core values and business ethics have enabled them to change their worlds. Select someone that you admire for their leadership qualities of business ethics, tenacity, honesty, or wisdom. And then ask yourself, what would Warren Buffett do in my situation? Or what would Abraham Lincoln do if he were here at this time? You will find yourself actually receiving guidance that enables you to be the very best person that you can possibly be. There are three areas of your life where acting with integrity is crucial to improve your leadership qualities. These are the three areas of greatest temptation for forsaking your integrity as well as the greatest opportunity for building your integrity within your business ethics and core values. The first area of integrity has to do with your relationships and your core values with your family and your friends. Being true to yourself means living in truth with each person in your life. It means refusing to say or do something that you don't believe is right. Living in truth with other people means that you refuse to stay in any situation where you are unhappy with the behavior of another person. You refuse to tolerate it. You simply refuse to compromise your values. The second area of integrity has to do with your leadership qualities and behavior towards your business ethics with money. Casualness toward money brings casualties in your financial life. So you must be fastidious about your core values toward your treatment of money, especially other people's money. You must guard your credit rating the same way you would guard your own personal honor. You must pay your bills punctually or even early. You must keep your promises with regard to your financial commitments. The third area of integrity has to do with your leadership qualities towards your commitments to other people, especially your business ethics, your work, and your sales activities. Always keep your word. Be a person of honor. If you say that you will do something, do it. No matter what the price or sacrifice. If you make a promise, keep it. If you make a commitment, fulfill it. Be known as the kind of person who can be trusted absolutely no matter what the circumstances. Here are three action steps to help you become a great leader. First, identify men and women with leadership qualities of great business ethics whom you admire and read their life stories. Think of how you could apply the lessons they learned to your own life. Second, analyze your key relationships regularly and resolve to live in truth with the most important people in your life. And third, keep your word. Keep your promises and commitments. Always do what you say you will do and guard your integrity as a sacred thing. Your business ethics are manifested in your willingness to adhere to the core values which you hold most dear. It's easy to make promises and hard to keep them, but if you do, every single act of integrity will make your character a little stronger. And as you improve the quality and strength of your character, every other part of your life will improve as well. I hope you enjoyed this video, and if you did, please subscribe to my channel by clicking on the button that appears on the screen.