Monday Morning Mentoring

I have been spending some time reading and re-reading Monday Morning Mentoring, Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder. A great book by David Cottrell founder of CornerStone Leadership. I am learning so much from this book that I thought I would share some thoughts over the next few Mondays. This book is based around a story. Jeff, a manager of a Fortune 500 company, is receiving mentoring from Tony, a semi-retired successful leader.

Getting Past Splat – the first Monday

There are few leaders, if any, who have not faced the same issues that you face.

It’s never too late to change.

A leader is no longer a “passenger” in the “car”. They are the “driver”. As a driver, you no longer have the right to mess around as passengers do such as “looking around” or “listening to loud music”.

Making excuses rather than accepting responsibility for your actions will destroy your effectiveness as a leader. Nobody needs a leader to find excuses or to find others to blame for failures … everyone can do that on their own.

When you place blame, you focus on the past. When you accept responsibility, you focus on this time forward – on the future.

You have the power to choose to accept responsibility for improving things.

You have control over how you react to situations.