Often, the goal is to be ‘liked’ at a workplace.
Another way to look at it would be to aspire to be ‘respected’.
You don’t have to be everyone’s best friend. But, you can still have a reputation for delivering top class results.
Of course you have to be great at your job. And of course, you have to put in the hours if/when necessary.
That is just the basic though. In my humble opinion, almost every decent executive/professor/manager has those characteristics.
The differentiator (in my humble opinion) lies somewhere in their ability to consistently demonstrate ‘Belief, hunger and cheer’
Isn’t that what stories of inspirational leadership revolve around? People who never gave up on their dream, people who never let age kill their hunger and people who refused to ‘bow down’ and get depressed by failure.
It is easy after all not to believe/become cynical with time, to be ‘content’ and not move out of our comfort zone and lose the ability to laugh, loud and long..
Belief, Hunger and Cheer – also known as ‘attitude’
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