These days, it sure can feel like the world needs changing, more than ever. But how much effect does any of us have? Read the article to learn just how much.
Really? You can change the world?
When you hear, “You can change the world!”, it’s often an encouragement, uttered to inspire. Sometimes Cheap Air Max 720 2020 Australia , it’s an exhortation.
These days, it sure can feel like the world needs changing, more than ever.
But is it true? How much effect does any of us have? It can feel like a big world, and we can seem so small.
When clients and other people I meet ask me this, I tell the story of Mason Wartman, a pizza shop owner in Philadelphia.
Mason turned a chance request by a customer to buy a pizza slice for a homeless person into a movement to end world hunger. His wall of Post-It notes Cheap Air Max 360 2020 Australia , vouchers for pizza slices purchased by customers, appeared on Upworthy and Ellen DeGeneres’ show. He took that attention and created a foundation that employs the homeless and feeds hungry people.
There are many, many stories like Mason’s. People who saw an opportunity to change something in their immediate world and took it. They didn’t wait. They took action. They did what they could do.
And they kept going. Persistence is your friend. When I was a kid, my parents would shake their heads in frustration, saying “You’re so stubborn!” I hope over time I’ve put that trait to good use, enduring and persisting when it mattered.
Gandhi was no slouch when he said Cheap Air Max 270 2020 Australia , “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” I wear that truth on a leather bracelet, to remind myself that all change, all impact that I can have, begins with me.
It begins with my decision to do what I’m afraid to do. To speak up when someone makes a racist comment. To be more visible than I feel comfortable being. To take action on my business when I’d rather mindlessly cruise Facebook.
To not let things slide and pass it off as not important.
To do the work that needs to be done to effect change.
And yes, to rest when I need it.
I’ve met a lot of amazing people doing all of that in recent years, since my intentional nomad days in 2011.
Entrepreneurs like Mason Wartman Cheap Air Max 2020 Australia , Phil Haid, and Alisoun Mackenzie who have impact on their minds as they grow and expand their companies. Impact through how they treat their clients, with respect. Impact in how they give their team members space and encouragement to have their own impact. Impact in how they reach out in the larger world.
Non-profit leaders like Kate Groch, Mallika Dutt, and Indrani Goradia, who see so much and give so much. Creating an organization out of their vision Cheap Air Max 2019 Australia , and impacting so many lives in the people they serve with education and support.
Even politicians like Esther Manheimer who are working for good. Being collaborative and compassionate even as they do their best to work within what is often a dysfunctional system. And sometimes they even succeed in changing it.
They all began by changing what they saw around them. They saw a need and reached out to learn more. They took action. They formed or joined a circle of connection, because none of us changes the world alone.
You can change the world. Your world. And once you do, that impact ripples out.
If your world is big enough, if your idea is big-hearted enough, you’ll change a lot of people’s lives.
So, in answer to the question in the title of this article Cheap Air Max 2018 Australia , “You can change the world” is not bullshit. It is a kind of fertilizer though. One that feeds and nurtures your own desire to make this world, your world, a better place.
I bow to you and walk with you. Let that be enough for us to begin.
Over the past 28 years, I've worked for three major corporations with many diverse leaders. Some have been highly effective, some incredibly dismal. I've also researched this subject extensively and here are three key findings.
Great leaders Influence other people by understanding them and gaining their trust and support.
Effective leaders have the ability to understand how other people think, which includes their desires Cheap Air Max 1 2020 Australia , motivations, requirements and wants. Once people realize that you actually care, they will undoubtedly follow you. You must show that you are one of THEM and that you will lead them to bigger and greater accomplishments. Without gaining trust and support your leadership days are over.
Great leaders empower others to reach their full potential to support their vision.
All the extraordinarily successful owners of companies such as Google, Microsoft and Dell have empowered other great leaders to support their company and vision. They cannot run the company by themselves and they have a high belief in the capability of others. By empowering the best leaders around them, they also continuously learn and become even greater leaders themselves. This in turns creates a nucleus of great leaders and creates a mind-bogglingly successful company or team.
The great leaders always, always find a way to win.
Great leaders do not accept defeat. Winston Churchill or even the great sports leaders such as Michael Jordan always found ways to rise above the challenge. And their passion profoundly influenced everybody around them to rally together and become victorious. Great leaders will do everything in their power to prevail. Through uniting people towards a common cause Cheap Air VaporMax Sandal Australia , using a variety of people's skills and never accepting defeat, the greatest leaders are born.
1. Great leaders Influence other people by understanding them and gaining their trust and support.
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