Leadership Skill: Purpose

All of us need a purpose.

Work without purpose can become mindless, heartless drudgery. Add purpose, even to so-called grunt work, and your work lives take on an expanded, even inspired dimension.

For the modern corporate leader, the ability to formulate a clear, compelling purpose and stay "on purpose" is often the difference between success and failure, between an insipired and inspiring work life and the mere pursuit of profit or a paycheck.

So remember the following leadership skill purpose points:

Purpose can empower people to reach greater goals than they ever thought possible.
Great goals are seldom achieved without confronting internal obstacles and external opposition.
Adversity can quickly stop a leader who lacks purpose, but it only "fans the flames" of leaders with a strong purpose.
Think big. Even if you fall short, you'll still have accomplished a lot.
Talk about purpose and people will listen, but to get them to follow, you must act with purpose.
Purposeful organizations are exciting, inspiring places to work. Purpose inspires even the most mundane task with meaning.
Constantly communicate your purpose, your dedication to it, and the expected rewards of achieving it.

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