Leaders Without Borders: 9 Essentials for Everyday Leaders
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Whether you are the CEO of your business or serve elsewhere in the organiza-tional structure, the boundaries of your leadership are limitless if you are devoted to developing your personal leadership skills. Leaders Without Borders will help you to embrace the challenge of personal leadership in order to expand the sphere of your influence.
In order to reach your potential as a leader, you will also be inspired to not only embrace your passion but identify it. Finding your one thing—your passion as a leader—is life-transforming. Leaders Without Borders will provide answers to help you in the discovery process of understanding what your passion is.
Doug Dickerson is a leadership consultant and motivational speaker. He is the director of Management Moment Leadership Services. His leadership column is published internationally each week and is recognized for its practical insights that inspire and motivate others to reach their full potential. Doug and his family reside near Charleston, South Carolina.
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Leaders Without Borders - Doug Dickerson
LEADERS WITHOUT BORDERS
9 essentials for everyday leaders
by
Doug Dickerson
Whether you are the CEO of your business or serve elsewhere in the organizational structure, the boundaries of your leadership are limitless if you are devoted to developing your personal leadership skills. Leaders Without Borders will help you to embrace the challenge of personal leadership in order to expand the sphere of your influence.
In order to reach your potential as a leader, you will also be inspired to not only embrace your passion but identify it. Finding your one thing—your passion as a leader—is life-transforming. Leaders Without Borders will provide answers to help you in the discovery process of understanding what your passion is.
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Leaders Without Borders
Copyright 2010 by Doug Dickerson
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Dedication
I would like to dedicate this book to my leading ladies—my wife, Alicia, and my two beautiful daughters, Katelyn and Kara, who are the loves and joy of my life—and to my parents, Carolyn Dickerson and my late father, Carl Dickerson, who from an early age in my life modeled leadership in the home.
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Contents
Foreword by Mark Sanborn
Part One: Borders Within Us—Facing the Challenge of Personal Leadership
Chapter One: Passion
Chapter Two: Priorities
Chapter Three: Optimism
Part Two: Borders Around Us—The Blessing of Our Leadership
Chapter Four: Teamwork
Chapter Five: Attitude
Chapter Six: Authenticity
Part Three: Borders That Define Us—The Measure of Our Leadership
Chapter Seven: Loyalty
Chapter Eight: Kindness
Chapter Nine: Legacy
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Foreword
Leadership is a challenge. Done right, it takes clear thinking and hard work. I rarely like easy answers because they’re usually unrealistic. I do, however, like books that challenge a leader’s thinking and provide him or her with new insights that prompt action. This book by Doug Dickerson is that kind of book.
A plethora of books are available on how to lead, but a shortage of books that fully explains why one might desire to lead in the first place. Leaders without Borders includes plenty of examples and ideas about how to lead, but it goes further and addresses matters of the heart. In it, you’ll find insights into the why of leadership and not just the how-to. You’ll be challenged in your thinking about what is truly important, and you’ll be asked to contemplate the larger issues of leadership and life.
As leaders we need to identify the borders that are all around us and transcend them to reach our maximum potential. Borders can limit us or leverage us, depending on how we understand them. Doug Dickerson’s book—the definitive guide to how to recognize and overcome these borders—is filled with real-life examples and anecdotes that will stay with you as you face your daily opportunities to excel.
Borderless leadership is passionate leadership. It transcends the identity of simply what you do and focuses on your higher purpose, not just an addition to your résumé. Doug shows how leaders often see the value of leading, or have a desire to lead, but fail to understand leadership’s greater purpose. This book will help you discover the purpose of leadership.
Borderless leadership requires separation—a separation that occurs when you embrace your dream and move with passion, when you break from the pack and when you empower your team. Doug also provides tools to help you balance your priorities so that you can stay focused on what is truly important.
Leaders without Borders will ensure that you make a more positive and measurable mark. The privilege of loving, knowing, and respecting those people whom you lead is what leadership is all about. This book will help you discover that what you can learn from them and what they can learn from you is unlimited.
I commend you for investing the time to become a student of leadership. As I say in my work—and I know Doug agrees—leadership doesn’t make a difference; leadership is the difference.
Mark Sanborn
President, Sanborn & Associates Inc.
An idea studio for leadership development
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Part One
Borders Within Us—Facing the Challenge of Personal Leadership
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Chapter One
Passion
Embracing the challenge of personal leadership is the beginning of expanding the sphere of your influence. Whether you are the CEO of your business or serve elsewhere in the organizational structure, one thing is for sure: the boundaries of your leadership are limitless if you are devoted to developing your personal leadership skills.
In order to reach your potential as a leader, you must not only embrace your passion but identify it.
In his book Halftime: Changing Your Game Plan from Success to Significance, Bob Buford writes, Most people never discover their ‘one thing.’ But part of what is so unsettling about approaching the end of the first half of our lives is that we know it is out there somewhere.
Finding your one thing—your passion as a leader—is life-transforming. As Buford says, It is discovering what’s true about yourself, rather than overlaying someone else’s truth on you or injecting someone else’s goals onto your personality.
Each person’s passions, gifts, and abilities are different, and where those God-given gifts take you is a personal journey. I would like to offer up a few questions to help you in the discovery process of understanding what your passion is.
First, what tugs at your heart? Beneath the exterior shell that others see is something that stirs you. In leadership, what stirs your heart is likely an area in which you are going to be effective. Your passion as a leader is developed by what moves you at your core.
What tugs at your heart gives you direction as a leader. Charles Parkhurst said, The heart has eyes that the brain knows nothing of.
Discovering your passion as a leader is about following a passion that likely already exists. It is a calling to causes greater than self. What is it?
Second, what is your gift? Identifying what tugs at your heart propels you in the right direction. Understanding your gift is to know where you fit in the puzzle. No one person can do it all, but discovering your passion and matching it with your gifts is the way to excel as a leader.
Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard said, The thing is to understand myself, to see what God really wishes me to do . . . to find the idea for which I can live and die.
When you discover that passion as a leader your influence will transcend the identity of what you do. At this level your identity as a leader will be defined