"What I Learned"

Since I’ve been away on this expensive conference there is some expectation from my company that I learn something that brings value to our organization. In my many experiences with such opportunities I have invariably learned that the information I gather is as valuable to , and often interchangeable with my personal life. So since I should prepare a report for my peers at work I choose to test run it on you guys, and then maybe make a few modifications before I offer it up for my friends at Cosma.

So In bullet points, and in no particular order here are the things that I either learned for the first time or which I knew already but were reinforced.

·Everyone should have a set of clearly stated family(company) values
·Our job as Leaders is to increase leadership capacity both on an individual and organizational level and the success in this area is the number one indicator of an organizations success.
·To achieve anything the top leaders(parents, grand parents) need to buy in.
·Your behavior needs to move you towards your goal. Anything less is counterproductive.
·Ask yourself not, are people smart, but rather, how are they smart?
·Have patience for people to learn but have no patience for poor behavior.
·How is your emotional bank account with those around you….are you overdrawn?
·Is this the ‘right’ thing to do?
·Life is all about memories.
·A tribe(family, company) is something you join to sustain life.
·Are you paying attention to the alarm bells in your life/work?
·Seventy one percent of all employees everywhere are not engaged in their jobs.
·Don’t just mark my paper, help me get an “A”.
·When employees come to work they often “sit and quit”!
·You have no right as a leader to screw up someone else’s life.
·If you can’t make people happy at least don’t hurt them.
·Sometimes we withhold information from others because it gives us power.
·Decide what is non-negotiable, in your work and in your life.
·Think about all the things that could go wrong…it’s not negativism, it’s just preparedness.
·If you have a leader recruiting other leaders you tend to get the same kind of people.
·Changing your own behavior opens up a world of opportunities.
·In the pharmaceutical industry it takes on average 23 years to bring a product to market.
·Aim for excellence instead of perfection.
·Everyone should have a coach.
·No great thing is created suddenly.
·Leadership starts on the inside.
·It’s always the leader.
·Treat your people as a family and lead with love.
·Leadership is about always bringing hope.
·Leadership is about managing energies….yours and others.
·Being positive changes peoples behavior.
·People first….then shareholders and customers.
·Good times and bad times require servant leadership
·When an employee isn’t working out you always have the opportunity to “share him with the competition”
·Are you here to serve or be served.
·As a leader, it’s not all about you!
·Do you own anything…your position, your people, your resources, or are they just on loan?
·Servant leaders like and encourage feedback.
·Every human being is important.
.Leadership development is most effective when applied to ones self!

...and my personal favorite....

.If life were a chess game, then at the end of the game the King and the Pawn go into the same box!!!

"I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything."---George Herbert Palmer

love
peter