Best of Blogs: Extreme Leadership by Steve Farber

Steve Farber says just like wearing spandex doesn't make you a cyclist or looking at the world through Oakley sunglasses doesn't make you a snowboarder, printing 'leader' on your business card doesn't make you lead. Steve, the best-selling author of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge and the Extreme Leadership blog, says – among other things – "real leaders take us places we've never been, turn nothing into something and change the pieces of the world they touch for the better."

Steve has a passion for coaching and inspiring extreme leadership at all levels. In addition to consulting, speaking and writing about extreme leadership, Steve also is the co-founding director of The Center for Social Profit Leadership and sits on the board for Up With People.

Here's a great post from Steve on being greater than yourself:

Your GTY Project
by Steve Farber (June 19, 2008)

The essence of the principle of Greater Than Yourself (GTY) is this:

Your own greatness as a leader (or in just about any other role, for that matter) lies, paradoxically, in your ability to cause others to be greater than yourself.

You could argue that this is just the right way for one decent human being to act towards another, and I'd whole-heartedly agree, but let's set altruism aside for a moment.

Is there a personal payoff for you? A benefit other than a warm, toasty feeling in your chest?

Oh, yeah.

Consider this: If you get a reputation for being the one who elevates people, for being the one who gives freely to others at work, and, as a result, for turning out superstar after superstar, what’s going to happen?

Everyone will want to work with you, that's what.

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