Reflect and act on these Questions this week

First read through Part 1- 6 about how to Lead in changing times.

1. What experience has been vital for your development?

2. What turning points have there been in your life?

3. What have you learned from life so far about what is most important to you?

4. What personal challenge are you facing today?

5. What are you going to do about it today?
Think of 2-3 short-term objectives you can focus on get you closer to overcoming your greatest challenge.

Part 6

Wise leaders teach themselves and their group to identify the focus of concern—that which they can affect direct and that which they can affect in a process forward.

They continue stubbornly to gather experience, which they are turning into wisdom. They renew their group’s cultures and are building in this way the new society. Wise leaders feel the deep pleasure and the call to create the new, better, and greater.

To summarize this week

To become a wiser leader:
• View life as a constant development
• View perceived setbacks as opportunities to learn and grow
• Balance what you receive against what you expect
• Help your group to analyze in all the different situations what they did well, what could be developed further, and how others have done
• Focus on short-term objectives and progress in tough periods, which creates energy and positive ambition
• Know that the situation never is as bad as it seems and never as good as it can be

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 5

Wise leaders focus on short-term objectives and progress in tough periods, and they strengthen the initiative and ability to act.

Small steps and victories give important positive energy to go further and strengthen the group’s self-confidence and sense of being successful.

Each day, step-by-step dealing with and resolving opportunities, information, and issues that we are facing, brings forward the best in us.

We grow!

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 4

Wise leaders draw strength from setbacks and learn from failures.

They realize that trials make people to grow, that the suffering teaches us patience and patience develops internal strength and character. We mature.

They know that the more experience they gain and the more setbacks they overcome the better and stronger leaders they will become.

Therefore, they are working hard on themselves and their groups to look at the situation from newer and greater perspective. So they retain the view of the world that gives them the strength and energy to proceed with commitment and interest.

We are especially important for each other, to support each other to such an approach.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 3

Wise leaders realize that – as many say – life is not fair. We are sometimes struck unfairly by losses, which may be heavy burdens to bear.

But even when we suffer considerable losses, we still have something most valuable left, something that no loss can take away: The freedom and power to choose how we will respond to to life situations and events, and how we intend to address other people we encounter along the way.

Next to life itself, the power of choice is our greatest gift. Wise leaders choose to react constructively to life events and situations. They choose to turn the negative into something positive and learn from it. They choose to be grateful for life’s trials.

That power we all have access to within us. We have to accept life as it is and balance what we receive against that which we expect, so we always will maintain a positive movement forward.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 2

Wise leaders realize that success is on the other side of perceived failures. They see failure as a part of development and as an opportunity to gain experience and to learn. They are constantly asking new questions, which opens up new perspectives.

Failures contribute to the discovery of weaknesses; our analysis makes it possible for us to take support, practice, and learn. So, even if this sounds rather strange, we will learn more by failing than through success.

Wise leaders consider adversity as temporary information on how far they have come on their journey, and they mobilize people in this way to easily gain new energy and power for the next step.

They are looking for declarations to perceived failure, and they communicate in a way that produces positive energy in their group, thus building an incentive to take even stronger action.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 1

Wise leaders are preparing themselves and their group to face the future. They create a positive and optimistic approach to support themselves and others. To learn how to lead is largely a matter of getting acquainted with the development we are a part of constantly seeking knowledge and new information.

Development takes place all the time. We constantly go from yesterday, till today and towards tomorrow. The world is changing physically, socially, and economically at this very minute. When we see the fact that life itself is about development, our task will be to creatively resolve the various situations we encounter. See things in new and different ways.

We can all count on situations where we experience having adversities, difficulties or problems, but by accepting change as a natural part of life and leadership, we are taking important steps towards renewal. In effect, we learn more of life’s exciting journey.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead in changing times”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead in changing times the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Reflect and act on these Questions this week

First read through Part 1- 6 about how to Lead with possibility thinking.

1. Do you see yourself as an optimist or a pessimist?

2. Do you focus your thoughts on what you want to see happen in the future?

3. Here are a couple of exercises that do not take longer than a few minutes to do and will remind you of how to take control of your way of thinking:

a) Sit down and reflect on how your attitude is at this moment. Is your attitude strong and positive? Is it hesitant or negative?

Determine the attitude that can best help you the rest of the day. Create a picture inside you! Can you see how you radiate a positive attitude and well-being?

What would happen if you made up your mind to help to raise other people’s spirits and attitudes? Make a decision to do that at this moment! What you give out you will receive!

b) Thinking in the short-term perspective what kind of a day do you want to create for yourself and the people in your surroundings? Make a list for precisely this day. It can look like this.

This precious day I will be:
- active and energetic!
- happy and enjoy life!
- encouraging to others in my environment!
- the strong, secure and wise one!
- determined to implement my priorities!

My choice. This precious day I will be:

Take a minute and repeat what you have written and see yourself carry it trough.

4. If you are in a leadership position, reflect on how you can help your team to more clearly see the positive value that each member of team are contributing to the team’s overall success.

For example, start your next meeting with your team by asking everyone to share 2-3 things that he or she are most proud of having accomplished since the last time you met?

Part 6

To think positively of the future is not the same as to be naive.

Even if wise leaders are optimistic and will recognize the positive about the future, they understand that setbacks, difficulties and suffering will come. It is a natural part of life and entrepreneurship that strengthen the passion and the purpose.

“A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.”

It is the ability to offer a constructive analysis—to help ourselves to insight and self-knowledge—that gives a way out of the feelings of rejection we sometimes encounter.

Adversities inspire us in this way to grow despite the situation and to make the best of everything that happens. Wise leaders don’t just think positively, they analysis, respond, and move ahead.

To summarize this week

To become a wiser leader:
• See the future as a possibility and an asset
• Constantly look for development and opportunities
• Focus your thoughts on what you want to achieve
• You are creating that which you expect
• Believe in yourself and your capacity
• Look at other people as an abundant resource for development and success
• Recognize that it is your choices, decisions, and actions, not your circumstances that determine how the future will be
• Look for that which is good and constructive in all situations
• Embrace humor and laugh at yourself and your situation now and then
• Regularly exercise and save energy in a playful way

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with possibility thinking”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with possibility thinking the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 5

To see things from the brighter side is a prerequisite for a healthy and active life. We feel better and live longer.

Feelings are infectious when we radiate an attitude of wellbeing. Wise leaders feels good about them selves and infect others with their good humor. This includes being able to laugh at themselves and their situation from time to time.

They see their coworkers as valuable and important for the company’s overall success, witch help to create a culture where everyone is optimistic, responsible and serving the customers with pride and joy.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead with possibility thinking”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead with possibility thinking the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad