Spirit of Leadership

CHAPTER ELEVEN Attitude #2 Initiative

The greatest value you can possess is a good attitude. T he attitude of initiative is one the most important attributes of true leaders that distinguishes them from perpetual followers. Leaders don’t wait for the future to come; they create it. They don’t wait for others to do what they know they should or could do. This is the distinction of leaders. The inspiration of leadership is vision. A vision is a pic ture of what you want to accomplish. Yet the attitude of ini tiative makes the difference between a plan and an actual result. In other words, vision is a desire, while initiative gets it accomplished . Let’s look at some descriptions of initiative: • Initiative is a catalyst. • Initiative is taking action. • Initiative springs from self-motivation. • Initiators are self-starters who don’t need outside urging to do something.

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