Leading with Character : 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy Set

**From leadership expert Dr. Jim Loehr, strengthen your moral and ethical character for outstanding leadership results with this must-have set.** **__Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy__** At the end of your life, how are you likely to be remembered? Chances are that people won’t be praising your money, power, and status. Instead, the people you’ve impacted will remember you for your compassion and personal strength—in short, your character. Unfortunately, many leaders are unaware of their character shortcomings and blind spots that hold so many of us back from building the lasting legacy we are capable of. With the right motivation, you can begin to strengthen your character and become a moral and ethical leader capable of creating lasting change. In __Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy__, Dr. Jim Loehr, cofounder of the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, reveals 50 character competencies that you can practice daily to transform your life and work. This book will also guide you through the process of developing a Personal Credo that will serve as your decision-making mission statement. Most leaders never take the time to identify their own core values, instead defaulting to a reflexive form of decision making. Gain an awareness of the conscious and unconscious processes that guide what you do and why you do it, and take charge of your leadership legacy. Even good leaders are vulnerable to corruption. Read __Leading with Character__ to learn how human evolution and contemporary culture can lead us astray without our even knowing it. As we work hard to get to the top, who are we becoming along the way? If we want to become heroes whose memories will long outlast us, we need to channel our energy into creating habits that will add up to a strong and meaningful character. **__The Personal Credo Journal: A Companion to Leading with Character__** We all want to become high impact leaders with a robust ethical and moral character, but getting there is a challenge. Dr. Jim Loehr’s __Leading with Character__ offers a succinct plan for developing your character as a leader and building a meaningful legacy through your life’s work. __The Personal Credo Journal__ is a day-by-day workbook that will guide you through the process of identifying your core values and crafting your Personal Credo—a statement of beliefs and values that will help you align every action and decision with your deepest held ideals. With these activities and exercises, you’ll spend just a few minutes each day reflecting on meaningful and thought-provoking prompts about your life story, your personal strengths and weaknesses, and your life goals. By the end of this life-altering, 150-day challenge, you will have gained a deep self-knowledge and a clear vision of your path forward as a leader. Take charge of the legacy you’ll leave behind, build character, and learn to use your Personal Credo to transform your life.

From leadership expert Dr. Jim Loehr, strengthen your moral and ethical character for outstanding leadership results with this must-have set.

Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy

At the end of your life, how are you likely to be remembered? Chances are that people won't be praising your money, power, and status. Instead, the people you've impacted will remember you for your compassion and personal strength—in short, your character. Unfortunately, many leaders are unaware of their character shortcomings and blind spots that hold so many of us back from building the lasting legacy we are capable of.

With the right motivation, you can begin to strengthen your character and become a moral and ethical leader capable of creating lasting change. In Leading with Character: 10 Minutes a Day to a Brilliant Legacy, Dr. Jim Loehr, cofounder of the Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute, reveals 50 character competencies that you can practice daily to transform your life and work.

This book will also guide you through the process of developing a Personal Credo that will serve as your decision-making mission statement. Most leaders never take the time to identify their own core values, instead defaulting to a reflexive form of decision making. Gain an awareness of the conscious and unconscious processes that guide what you do and why you do it, and take charge of your leadership legacy.

Even good leaders are vulnerable to corruption. Read Leading with Character to learn how human evolution and contemporary culture can lead us astray without our even knowing it. As we work hard to get to the top, who are we becoming along the way? If we want to become heroes whose memories will long outlast us, we need to channel our energy into creating habits that will add up to a strong and meaningful character.

The Personal Credo Journal: A Companion to Leading with Character

We all want to become high impact leaders with a robust ethical and moral character, but getting there is a challenge. Dr. Jim Loehr's Leading with Character offers a succinct plan for developing your character as a leader and building a meaningful legacy through your life's work. The Personal Credo Journal is a day-by-day workbook that will guide you through the process of identifying your core values and crafting your Personal Credo—a statement of beliefs and values that will help you align every action and decision with your deepest held ideals.

With these activities and exercises, you'll spend just a few minutes each day reflecting on meaningful and thought-provoking prompts about your life story, your personal strengths and weaknesses, and your life goals. By the end of this life-altering, 150-day challenge, you will have gained a deep self-knowledge and a clear vision of your path forward as a leader. Take charge of the legacy you'll leave behind, build character, and learn to use your Personal Credo to transform your life.

Praise For Leading With Character Leading With Character Can Help You Sharpen And Define Your Potential Legacy And, In The Course Of Doing That, Will Make You A Better Leader In All Aspects Of Your Life. —chip Bergh, Ceo, Levi Strauss & Co. As A Fan Of Dr. Loehr's For Over Twenty Years, I Have Been Amazed By The Continued Evolution Of His Concepts While Maintaining The Initial Building Blocks He Identified Over Thirty Years Ago. Leading With Character Provides Us With The Source Code Required To Define Our Own Self-determined Purpose While Extending Our Thinking Beyond Self-interest To Incorporate A More Fulfilling Concern For Others. —peter Scaturro, Former Ceo Of U.s. Trust, Partner At Goldman Sachs, And Managing Partner At Pks Group As A Journalist, I've Been Interviewing And Writing About Business Leaders For Four Decades Now, And I Firmly Believe Something Has Changed Profoundly In The Last Five To Ten Years. Business Leadership Has Become Less About Giving Orders, More About Setting Example; Less About Articulating A Detailed Strategy, More About Setting Values, Directions, And Guard Rails. As A Result, Character Becomes Much More Important. People Want To Work For Someone Whom They View As A Moral Leader, And They Will Model His Or Her Behavior. The Radical Transparency Of Today's World Means They Will Quickly See Through Leaders Who Are Not Authentic, And Identify Those Who Are. Character Becomes Critical. —alan Murray, Ceo, Fortune Media Corporation The Unprecedented Challenges Of The Twenty-first Century Demand Leaders Of Every Stripe Who Share One Common Attribute—a Strong Character Of Integrity And Honor. After A Half-century Of Studying And Coaching World-class Performers In All Walks Of Life, This Special Book Is Jim Loehr's Magnum Opus. His Rigorous Training Program Applies The Modern Science Of Human Performance To The Classical Wisdom Of Character Development. This Practical Guide Is For Those Who Have The Courage And Perseverance To Follow This Proven Path To A Life Of Significance By Becoming Your Best Self. If You Are Up For The Challenge, Read This Book, Turn Off Social Media, And Get To Work. —captain George Dom, Usn (ret.), Former Commanding Officer And Flight Leader Of The Navy's Blue Angels The challenges we confront every day to remain true to our deepest values and finest character are common to all of us as leaders. Each of us desires to rise above our parochial self-interest and become a true servant leader whose ethical and moral character is beyond reproach, but we struggle mightily to do so. Leading With Character offers a succinct plan for strengthening your character as a leader: Expose the ingenious ways leaders knowingly and unknowingly cross moral lines to get their personal wants and needs met. Prevent leaders from defaulting into reflexive, automatic moral decisions by raising awareness of the process they are using to render a moral decision. Provide leaders with a proven method for constructing a robust Personal Credo which will become the ultimate source code for vetting all their ethical and moral decisions. The program presented in this book, along with the accompanying journal, provides a practical method that could be used to build and maintain a robust personal morality system for leaders to address inherent flaws in their operating systems. "The challenges we confront every day to remain true to our deepest values and finest character are common to all of us as leaders. Each of us desires to rise above our parochial self-interest and become a true servant leader whose ethical and moral character is beyond reproach, but we struggle mightily to do so. Leading With Character offers a succinct plan for strengthening your character as a leader: Expose the ingenious ways leaders knowingly and unknowingly cross moral lines to get their personal wants and needs met. Prevent leaders from defaulting into reflexive, automatic moral decisions by raising awareness of the process they are using to render a moral decision. Provide leaders with a proven method for constructing a robust Personal Credo which will become the ultimate source code for vetting all their ethical and moral decisions"-- Provided by publisher