November Eleventh Success Secret – Donald & Eleanor Laird

November 11, 2020 — Leave a comment

General Qualities of a Personality for Leadership. 

  • Personal Magnetism – For personal Magnetism that Wins People;
    • Be Active
    • Be Cheerful
    • Be Exciting
    • Be Brisk
    • Be Direct
    • Be Fearless
  • Poise – For Poise to make you Master of Situations;
    • Think about the other person
    • Touch a talisman
    • Think twice before talking
    • Take slow deep breaths
    • Talk your troubles over
  • Self-Confidence – For Self-confidence to Control Others;
    • Put long trousers on childhood memories
    • Secretly belittle others
    • Put your best foot forward
    • Put money in the bank regularly
  • Optimism – To have Optimism that Gets Enthusiasm;
    • Act optimistically
    • Smile – actually laugh
    • Like people – even pessimists
  • Tactfulness – For Tact in Smoothing the Way;
    • Treat everyone as if they were your superior
    • Consider they opinions, whims, prejudices
    • Use constructive smile words and phrases
    • Swap envy for friendliness
  • Progressiveness – Keeping Progressive for Leading Others
    • Mingle with others
    • Keep your feelings insensitive
    • Be tolerant of others opinions
    • Look ahead, think ahead
    • Use effort to keep ahead of the times
  • Initiative – For Initiative to get things going;
    • Be dissatisfied
    • Change your wishbone for a backbone
    • Think positively
    • Take on more work
    • Wean yourself
  • Stick-to-itiveness
    • Sink your ships
    • Change your grip
    • Say “no” to yourself
    • Use obstacles for steppingstones
    • Pretend it is easy
  • Power over Time

~ Donald & Eleanor Laird, The Technique of Building Personal Leadership, (1944)

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