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

Part 4

Wise leaders understand their role to be supportive of the individuals as well as the group to make choices toward positive pictures of the future.

With an attitude of faith in the team’s capability to handle the challenges that lies ahead wise leaders keep the hope alive. This helps the group to create an attitude of faith in the future and to build the determination to go there.

Likewise, the leader supports the group with reflections about the performance and thinking processes that have led to success in the past.

What are the 3-4 most important things we have done that has brought us to where we are today? What are we most proud of having accomplished?

Leadership is a major resource within us.

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 3

Our thoughts and internal pictures are continually affecting our achievement.

If we grow positive expectations, they will lead to better performance. They become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

When we focus on the possibility to succeed, we will act decisively and with optimism. We realize – that is we “make real” – that which we see within us.

All things are created twice: First inside, in our thinking, and then outside, in our doing. We are creating first mentally within us what we then physically step-by-step implement in our development process.

When we grow in possibility thinking, we are moving ourselves towards what we want. The opposite is problem thinking that concentrates on what is not working or is wrong.

A possibility thinker moves the question from “What it is that is not working?” To “What do we want?”

A wise leader strengthens the group to focus on the positive side of every situation and to see each other as resources for their development and success.

A positive and constructive approach towards our business environment gives us rewards in several dimensions.

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 2

Our thoughts are powerful. They direct our actions and shape our lives and futures.

Whatever we dwell upon and think about grows and expands in our individual lives. Our thoughts are like seeds in a garden. What we plant today will grow tomorrow. If we plant roses, we reap roses. If we plant weeds, we will reap weeds.

Someone once said that we will be what we are thinking of each day. We therefore need to be aware of how we use our ability to think and how it will affect our lives and leadership.

When we are focusing our thoughts toward a positive future we will be more full of energy, self-confidence and joy. Each situation we face becomes a positive situation when we decide to see it as an opportunity to learn, grow, and develop toward the achievement of our deepest dreams.

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 1

Wise leaders are possibility thinkers. They look for opportunities for development, where others are talking about problems.

Their aim is to develop the accepted facts and they wish to create the new, better, or greater, something that will endure over their lifetime and well beyond.

With the big pictures of the desired situation in mind, leaders seek perspective that stimulates new ways of thinking and viewing. This releases energy for planning to create programs and activities to move ahead.

In the same way, wise leaders support their team in the direction of a positive future filled with attractive opportunities to create and contribute to greater value for customers, employees and stakeholders.

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