LOYALTY-center in base of pyramid
Today is day five of our John R. Wooden Pyramid of Success blog series! If you need to catch up scroll down and start on the first blog of industriousness.
"Loyalty is part of human beings' higher nature. It is also part of the nature of great teams and those who lead the,. The power of Loyalty is the reason I placed it in the center of the Pyramid's foundation.
It is impossible to be a good leader without Loyalty to your organization- your team- just as it is impossible to be a good citizen without Loyalty to your country. You must, of course, have the courage to be loyal to those you lead. Doing so is not always easy. It starts, however, with Loyalty to yourself- your standards, your system, your values. Compromising them- especially under the banner of expediency - is disloyalty; personal betrayal of yourself.
"To thine own self be true," Polonius advised his son, in Hamlet. I cannot improve on Shakespeare, but I will expand just slightly: "First, do not betray yourself. Second, do not betray those you lead." This is Loyalty
A leader who has Loyalty is the leader whose team I wish to a part of. And so do others. Most people, the overwhelming majority of us, wish to be in an organization whose leadership cares about them, provides fairness and respect, dignity and consideration.
Do so and you find Loyalty in abundance from those you lead. And you will subsequently lead an organization that will not waffle in the wind when things get tough.
Loyalty is a most precious and powerful commodity with an organization. And it starts with the leader who knows what Loyalty means."
-John R. Wooden
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