Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Position Yourself As A Leader For Your Business

Position Yourself As A Leader For Your Business
Copyright © James M. Taylor
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In business you have to be able to lead your people if you
want success in your business. A leader knows this and
strives for duplication. You can work alone and be successful, but that
can take a lot of years and hard work. If you build a team
of leaders your business will increase 5 times faster and be
very a successful business. Leaders know this and so should you.

What Makes A Good Leader?
That's a good question; there are many
types of leaders for example Teachers, Armed forces officers,
Politician, Police force leaders and Business leaders. All these
leaders have 7 things in common. In this article I will focus on
Business Leaders and what you need to do to become one.

Why Do You Need To Become A Leader?
Before you can understand why you need to become a Leader, you
have to know what a leader is. By definition
a leader is 1. A person or thing that leads. 2. A guiding or
directing head, as of an army, movement, or political group, but
a leader is much more than that. A leader is someone that takes it upon
themselves to lead a group of people. A leader teaches people how and
what they need to do to create success in their business as well as his own.
Reading books, watching video's, listening to DVDs, going to
seminars and learning what they need to know to be successful. A
leader teaches the techniques that he has learned from other
leaders and mentors. A leader needs to teach technique’s that
are duplicated. Most important a leader knows he must
gain the trust of the people. A leader knows that he will get his
success faster by teaching others to be leaders.

Who Can Be A Leader?
Anyone that is willing to put in the time it takes to learn by
reading books, ebooks, DVDs attend seminars and can be coached. To
become a leader you have to be coached and willing to take
action, in other words JUST DO IT! A leader is not afraid of
failure. A leader doesn’t look at it as failing. A leader sees it
as just another bump in the road or obstacles to climb.
Failure is a lesson to be learned to avoid the same problem.

What Mind Set Do Leaders Have To Have?
It’s a known fact that to become successful you have to change your
Mind Set. A leader wasn't born with this ability. He had to learn
from others. Reading self-development books, audio/videos
and seminars. A Leader's mind set is not if I can do it, but what can
I do to accomplish my goals. Leaders don't say
things like "well maybe I can" or " I'll try" or "what will
happen if I fail?” All Thoses comments are what a Loser says.
Change your Mind Set. Surround yourself with positive thinking
people. Get rid of negative influences in you life, and Change
your Mind Set.

How Leaders Overcome Obstacles?
Leaders overcome obstacles by seeing what they did wrong and
fixing the problem and taking action. To a leader an obstacle is just
another learning experience. Leaders know about Murphy's Law
(What Ever Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong).
The difference between Leaders and other people is while the other guy
wines and cries, the Leader finds a solution.

A good Leader treats his business partners
with respect and teaches them a duplicated plan for their success and
at the same time he’s growing his business. A business needs to have
Leaders for that business to be successful. Some people are born
leaders, some people have leadership thrust on them.
What category do you fall in?

About The Author:


James M. Taylor

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