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About Respecting Others

As I mentioned, RESPECT is a TWO-WAY street. You Get It and You Give It. However, as a leader you have to take the initiative and be the first one to give that respect to others. 
However, make it perfectly and clearly known to you that you can and must withdraw that respect when you are no longer being respected or disrespected. 
You CANNOT sacrifice your own self-respect because you are “supposed” respect someone when they do not deserve your respect or are abusing that respect because of the position they hold in the family hierarchy or on the company’s corporate ladder. 
REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS
Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author of THE WALKING LEADER
 
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ABOUT RESPECT

Defined as “a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements” RESPECT is above all else a TWO-WAY street. You Get It and You Give It. Just as quickly as you give it, you can take it back. You can stop respecting someone after a lifetime of respect. RESPECT is a fickle being and is something not to be taken lightly.

This week we will talk about the different aspects of RESPECT and what we can and cannot do about it. However, there is something to think about: When we are told that we are “supposed to” respect someone or something, are we truly and freely giving that respect?

In that case, that thing we give is commonly known as PLATITUDES.

Question everything especially those things and individuals that “demand” to be respected.
REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS

Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author of THE WALKING LEADER
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#change #SelfLeadership #respect
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YOU DO HAVE CONTROL ON HOW OTHERS HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE

YOU DO HAVE CONTROL ON HOW OTHERS HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE
As the main topic has been ACCOUNTABILITY, HOW TO HOLD YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE, HOLDING OTHERS ACCOUNTABLE but there is another side to that coin. OTHERS WILL HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE & YOU WILL HAVE VERY LITTLE TO NO CONTROL OVER HOW OR WHY THEY DO SO. 
Knowing that you cannot change people (their behavior) you can change people (move them out of your life) because of their negativity, how they choose to treat you, or whatever the reason. What that reason may be, you have the ability to control that aspect of any relationship. 
If it is not working out then YES, you can make that change. While you can try to motivate them, inspiring them but you cannot dictate to them because they ARE holding you to a standard that they have not shared with you.
People will hold you accountable for an action or words spoken that you have absolutely NO CLUE (BECAUSE WE DO NOT READ MINDS) what that standard or expectation may be. Yet, they will hold you to and then blame you for not meeting their expectations or standard. How is that fair? It is not fair.
Therefore, you can change people. Remember, you are only as good as you tolerate. Stop tolerating their negative behavior and they will soon find someone else who will ignorantly accept that kind of behavior in their lives. Stop feeding the negative and soon they will go find someone else to feed off of and drain them of their positive energy. 
Current and Future Leaders, it is your responsibility to make things right in your life first. If others do not like it, well that’s on them. You can only control yourself, your actions, your words, and what you are willing to tolerate from others especially when they do NOT want to be held accountable but have absolutely no problem holding you to the perverted sense of what is accountability and what they expect of you all the while never communicating that expectation or standard.
Time to cast away the lines that have been holding you down and GOOD RIDDANCE!
REMEMBER: ACTION is ALWAYS greater than WORDS
Get to work,
David Guerra, MBA
author THE WALKING LEADER