A Leader's Legacy

Introduction 1

Part One Significance 9

1 Leaders Serve and Sacrifice 12

2 The Best Leaders are Teachers 20

3 We All Need Loving Critics 27

4 You are the Most Important Leader in Your Organization 33

5 No One Likes to Be an Assumption 40

Part Two Relationships 47

6 Leadership is Personal 50

7 Leaders Should Want to Be Liked 56

8 When You Don’t See Eye to Eye, Seek to Understand 62

9 You Can’t Take Trust for Granted 71

10 Let Your People Go 79

Part Three Aspirations 89

11 Lead from the Inside Out 92

12 Forward-Looking is a Leadership Prerequisite 99

13 It’s Not Just the Leader’s Vision 107

14 Liberate the Leader in Everyone 114

15 Leaders are Followers, Too! 122

Part Four Courage 131

16 There’s Courage in All of Us 134

17 You Can’t Plan to Be Courageous, But You Can Choose It 141

18 It Takes Courage to Make a Life 148

19 The Courage to Be Human 155

20 Failure is Always an Option 163

21 No Money-Back Guarantee 170

Afterword: The Legacy You Leave is the Life You Lead 177

Notes 183

Acknowledgments 187

About the Authors 191

Index 195