Success is a reflection of your commitment to excellence.
As the young Lion looks at his reflection in the river bed, a rumbling voice from the heavens bellows, "Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than you have become." It is the voice of Mufasa talking to his son in The Lion King. Remember that?
Just as water reflects your image as you gaze into it, when you look inside yourself, you see who you really are – personal reflection is an internal mirror.
Sparky didn't have much going for him. He failed every subject in eighth grade. In high school he flunked Latin, Algebra, English, and Physics. He made the golf team but lost the only important match of the season, and then he lost the consolation match. He was awkward socially. He never once asked a girl to go out on a date in high school.
The more we lead, the more we work with leaders, and the more we parent our own children, the more we see compelling parallels between leadership and parenting.
Leaders are parents, and parents are leaders. They are in different settings with parallel roles.
Here are 12 secrets your employees (kids) want their leaders (parents) to know:
Measuring your life can be very subjective and based on your own beliefs and values. So, we offer two similar but different ways to measure your life.
The first is this quote from Clayton Chirstensen, “When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage— a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life.“
