The 7 Habits of Highly Impactful Leaders

How We Judge Success…

How much of success comes from modelling others? From looking at their behaviour and attempting to instil those habits in ourselves? Even the very notion of ‘habits’ comes from the idea that it is an outside-led change; that if we do something differently then we will get different results.

But what about the oft-quoted remark attributed to Einstein? Where does that fit into this model?

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.

And it’s great to look at others to see what they do, what they have learned, where that’s taken them, but really change comes from understanding where those habits in others arise from and whether we are tapped into, and inspired from, that same place in ourselves. Let’s have a look at what that actually means though…

The Yardstick…

I want to generalise here and say that we only ever measure success with an external yardstick, but let me perhaps moderate and say ‘mainly’.

We want to know how big the organisation is, how many people, what kind of money is being raised or spent, how many people impacted and how their lives changed. In the impact world we look at breadth and depth and longevity of impact, but we rarely…