unknown regardless of your position in life, at some time, like it or not, you will find yourself in a position of leadership. It may be at work heading up a committee or accepting a new management position, it may be in a church group, in a professional organization or even a social setting. For many of us, it will be in our homes where, as parents, we have a critical leadership role to play. It is about who we are and our actions, our deeds, how we treat others, how we make decisions, how we listen to others, how we accept responsibility for our actions and hold ourselves accountable this is who we really are. As leaders, we must realize that every action is a reflection of our character, our integrity and our ability to be noble, caring human beings.

I happen to believe that there is no substitute for responsible leadership that adheres to and honors high moral character and rules of conduct as guiding principles. In recent years, we've seen the sort of train wrecks that can occur when ceo's and people in leadership positions compromise their integrity. Manipulating performance figures and earnings to try and improve stock performance, their inept and corrupt form of leadership led to not only to the failure of their companies but also to a pathetic state of mistrust. Their selfishness and greed led to the general distrust of the american business leader. Maybe warren bennis said it best in his book, leaders: the strategies for taking charge, when he said, managers do things right, leaders do the right thing. Thus, if leadership is truly action, it is important that it be the right action.

In this day an age, each of us must make a conscious choice as to how we are going to lead our lives. How are we going to live? what choices will we make? how will we treat others and will we seek to help those less fortunate than us? you see, leading a life and just living one are two very different things. Take the time to think through your decisions and actions, and most importantly, do the right thing.

Harold bud boughton is a husband, father, former college athlete, coach and senior executive who currently resides in greenwood, indiana, a suburb of indianapolis. Magazine, sales and marketing management and in ethix magazine published by the institute for business, technology amp ethics. He is author of dad's last letter a fictional novel that doubles as a book about leadership principles.

In the end, it is a book about fatherly love, hope, leadership principles and the christian faith. more personal development articles at the counterpoint article library articulations of effective leadership of effective leadership paper what is leadership. Leadership leadership is defined on merriam webster’s online dictionary as, the position or function of a leader, a person who guides or. Leadership project leadership khaldunia leadership styles and relations submitted to sir. Charismatic leadership 1.charismatic leadership assumptions charm and grace are all that is needed to create followers. As we move deeper into 2009 one thing i know for sure is that many lawyers, law firm staff members and clients are facing deep uncertainty.

At this time more then ever it is important to come to grips with what we can influence and impact. When we catch ourselves complaining about the system, about how decisions are made and how things are done it is a good time to come to grips with our own responsibility for making a positive contribution. I had the opportunity to interview leadership effectiveness trainer robert gifoyle to ask him for his thoughts on leadership. Leadership is not about the role we hold in an organization rather it is about the action we choose to take. He followed by saying that if you ask people to cite examples of extraordinary leadership at least one third of the time they will comment on the leadership actions taken by a colleague who is not in a leadership position. She got us into the difficult conversations about barriers and challenges and helped us get through. Gilfoyle pointed to three key characteristics of leadership in action: 1.the action is other focused: how can i help people succeed? 2.it is future oriented: i know we are focused on this phase of the project but how does it connect with the end result we are after? 3.it is client focused.

How is that going to look from our client’s perspective? how will it help them with their business goals? by bigg success staff timeless principles this great quote comes from donald h. Mcgannon, who ran the westinghouse broadcasting corporation and served as president of the national urban league. That requires action, which doesn rsquo t require any certain ldquo position rdquo. Nobody follows anybody who doesn rsquo t do anything people follow people who do something of significance. related posts olympic fever:children paint their faces and send best wishes to the indian contingent at the olympics in vijayawada.

It is the beginning of the academic year, that time when new leaders from the student community in educational institutions are elected. Abhyasa school, in toopram, had what was termed a unique process to elect student leaders to work at overall personality development. A public school with gurukul ethos is what abhyasa calls itself and the goals include management of students on all fronts academic, discipline, campus, mess, gram seva rural development , spirituality, activity and sports. Once nominations are received, leaders are elected at an open assembly where students are asked to vote. The school administration team then brainstorms the candidate to hone his/her skills.

The training of the future leaders start with the process of making them acclimatised with the system. All the elected student managers for various committees are asked to present their goals to the school. Those elected included harikrishna reddy and sahith bandi as school captains, manish rathode and sahita as vice captains, student managers anil kumar chavali academic , gokul activity , akash gupta campus , sai shiva dhantal discipline , manaswini grama seva , nikhil badam mess , reethu spirituality , niranjan gawande sports , house captains shreya and narender basi for shakti, vaishnavi and sai kiran for shiva.

special olympics programme a special programme was conducted in connection with the olympic governor 2012 at nris indian springs school on thursday. The highlight of the programme was the eye pleasing arrangement of primary wing children in the shape of the olympics logo. Members of the management, teachers, non teaching staff and all students sent their best wishes to the members of the indian olympic team on this occasion. combined celebrations interact club 2012, a club to promote international understanding and to foster goodwill and peace, was started at sri prakash vidyaniketan recently. The idea is to encourage the advancement of international perceptive and the occasion was combined with vanamahotsava celebrations.