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How are the OTHERS Doing?

It stopped me dead in my tracks when I read it. As a result, I put the book down and couldn't come back to it for days. When I finally did, I was still stunned by the revelation of my inadequacy.

What was it that shot like a lightening bolt of illumination into my blinded mind? The statement that "to determine how well you are doing as a leader, take a look at how well the people you lead are doing."

Ouch.

To that point, I had been thinking I was a leader when actually I was operating only at the lower level of "performer." It was all about me, my goals, my performance, my motivation, my accomplishments. I thought that if I drove myself hard enough, learned enough, and tried enough, I would be a good leader. Unfortunately, that's not how it works. 

As Orrin Woodward and I wrote in Launching a Leadership Revolution, leading involves much more than that. Leadership is the art of influencing other people to high performance. It is the power of a performer enabling and enhancing the performance of others. And therein lies the key: OTHERS.

Want to be a leader?

Want to increase your influence?

Want to take your performance to the next level?

Become OTHER focused. Decide right here and now that your life will not be about you, but about others. Figure out how to add more value to more people with everything you do. As Zig Ziglar famously said, "Help enough other people get what they want and you'll have everything you want." This statement, I believe, is both literal and figurative. I DO believe that by helping others succeed it boomerangs back around and helps the helper. However, the deeper and more figurative meaning is that by helping others get what they want you receive so much more. You receive their thanks and gratitude, adulation and respect, friendship and loyalty, comfort and presence. Just by being the "raiser" of others you have been raised yourself. 

So make your work and life about others. 

How they do is the gage of how you are doing.

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  1. Cathy - Team Rascals Avatar
    Cathy – Team Rascals

    Chris,
    The other night, after that incredible Syracuse Open with Orrin, there was a couple on our Team Rascals that showed my husband and I, up close and personal, what you are talking about it. I will try to boil down to the essentials what I told Tony about it in an email last night . . .
    Clayton and Georgia are a part of Team Rascals, and growing leaders in it. We have all thrilled to their continued successes in the past couple of months. We are glad to be on Rascals with them, even though they aren’t a part of “our” part of that larger team.
    They served and gave and loved so joyfully, gracefully and selflessly the other night, my husband and I were blown away to be the recipients! We had a moment or so with Orrin, to thank him for coming, and to thank him for his words of encouragement and challenge. Our upline was nowhere to be seen (with folks who rode with them), and Clayton and Georgia took a picture of us with Orrin and his son Jordan on their own camera . . .
    As they asked for our email address to send it to us, Clayton and Georgia kept shrugging off our profuse expressions of gratitude. It was no big deal to them, we could see it! But it was, and is a HUGE deal to us. (There’s more to it; that’s the “condensed” version.)
    You mentor Tony. He mentors them. You are a leader of leaders who are reproducing leaders. I believe you called that Level 5 in Launching A Leadership Revolution . . As if we didn’t know you weren’t already there . . .
    I am studying all of you, working to “grow up” to be a leader and server of others. Just like the multitude of examples I see before me on the Team as a whole, and my beloved Team Rascals in particular.

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  2. Phyllis Hoff Avatar
    Phyllis Hoff

    Chris:
    The two best examples of this for me and many others are you and Terri.
    Talk about other focused and a raiser of others.
    You two never cease to amaze me with your constant giving leading examples.
    Thank you both and God Bless.

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  3. Tony Tefel Avatar
    Tony Tefel

    The proof of what you just so perfectly wrote is in you, because you have sown it in me. For I am the holder of your gift and I give you my thanks and gratitude, adulation and respect, friendship and loyalty, comfort and presence.
    At such a young age, you stand respectfully on the shoulders of great men, so therefore you are a Leader among many leaders.
    I count it an honor to be on your team.

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  4. Peggi Avatar
    Peggi

    Thank you for re-posting this, Chris! Great reminder to take eyes off self.

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