The Importance of Managing Yourself First

It’s the new year and an important time to consider ourselves first, so that we can better lead others. This week, I begin a series on personal leadership that will take us through the month of January.

Here are a few resources that I mentioned in this episode:
The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

• Five Practices – Model the Way is the first one

Leadership from the Inside Out by Kevin Cashman
HBR Managing Yourself
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

• First three habits: private victory
• Habit #1: Be proactive
• Between stimulus and response, we have choices we can make

Story of Viktor Frankl – Man’s Search for Meaning

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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