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If you are a leader who can be trusted, then those around you will grow to respect you. To be such a leader, there is a Leadership Framework to guide you:

BE a professional. Examples: Be loyal to the organization, perform selfless service, take personal responsibility.

BE a professional who possess good character traits. Examples: Honesty, competence, candor, commitment, integrity, courage, straightforwardness, imagination.

KNOW the four factors of leadership - follower, leader, communication, situation.

KNOW yourself. Examples: strengths and weakness of your character, knowledge, and skills.

KNOW human nature. Examples: Human needs, emotions, and how people respond to stress.

KNOW your job. Examples: be proficient and be able to train others in their tasks.

KNOW your organization. Examples: where to go for help, its climate and culture, who the unofficial leaders are.

DO provide direction. Examples: goal setting, problem solving, decision making, planning.

DO implement. Examples: communicating, coordinating, supervising, evaluating.

DO motivate. Examples: develop morale and esprit de corps in the organization, train, coach, counsel.

The Process of Great Leadership

The road to great leadership that is common to successful leaders:

• Challenge the process - First, find a process that you believe needs to be improved the most.

• Inspire a shared vision - Next, share your vision in words that can be understood by your followers.

• Enable others to act - Give them the tools and methods to solve the problem.

• Model the way - When the process gets tough, get your hands dirty. A boss tells others what to do, a leader shows that it can be done.

• Encourage the heart - Share the glory with your followers' hearts, while keeping the pains within your own.

How important is the ability to be a leader for each of the following people? Why? Discuss in groups.

• a parent • a teacher • an army general • a fitness instructor • a film director

3) Describe how you think work will have changed in 15, 30 and 45 years' time. What new jobs will there be? What jobs will have disappeared? What will most people's working conditions be like? Wealth

1) Discuss the questions:

Would you like to be extremely wealthy? Why (not)? What problems might wealth bring with it?

If you suddenly won a great deal of money, what would you do with it?

Do you agree that poverty is no longer a problem in the modern world? Why (not)?

"Wealthy nations, like wealthy individuals, have а moral duty to help those who are less fortunate." Do you agree? Why (not)?

What does "success" mean to you?

2) You are going to read a magazine article about ways to become a millionaire. Eight paragraphs have been removed from the article. Choose from the paragraphs A-I the one which fits each gap (2-8). There is an example at the beginning (0).

So Yоu Want To Be A Millionaire?

There is no specific formula you can use to become a millionaire. At school, we are told that gaining knowledge is all that we need to do well in society.

1) E

Other studies show that there is little connection between how well chil­dren do at school and the success they achieve as adults. At the moment, there are 95,000 millionaires in Britain alone. Those who recently became millionaires come from a wide variety of backgrounds.

2)

If you are not born wealthy, you may be able to take advantage of your good looks. Dr Raymond Bull of Portsmouth University says that good looks make early life easier. He then adds that people expect a good-look­ing person to be kinder and more effi­cient.

3)

Professor Cooper has divided suc­cessful people into two categories: the entrepreneurs and the intrapreneurs. The former often left school early, and had several business disasters. They have awkward personalities, but they are very determined. The latter, however, have risen up through the levels of organisations. They are the children everyone thought would do well. Over half of them went to univer­sities. They are good organisers and get on well with people.

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However, even if you were born poor and lack the height or looks of a top model, there is still plenty you can do to improve your chances of success. There are many courses and self-help manuals available to help you reach the top. There is even a magazine called Personal Success, filled with ads for courses that will "transform your thinking and behaviour".

5)

"Success does not happen by accident," says Michael Breen, who runs seminars on various aspects of being successful. "Successful people", says Breen, "are the ones who, when something doesn't work, try something else. Unsuccessful people keep on doing the same thing, only harder.

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Breen gets students to concentrate on specific tasks that need attention, rather than allowing themselves to be overwhelmed by a mountain of things waiting to be done. He makes his students concentrate on getting one thing done, and helps them focus on the good feeling it produces when the job has finished.

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However, what none of these techniques do is to look at the quality of your life, or consider whether the price of success is too high.

8)

One thing is sure, though. True success turns out to be based on more than motivation. There is a need for harmony, balance, creativity and healthy relationships.

A One dramatic difference between Cooper's two groups is that many of the intrapreneurs felt that they had been the victims of discrimination early on in their lives. This has not been the case for the entrepreneurs.

B In his training programmes, Breen shows people how to get rid of negative thoughts and put themselves in a more productive frame of mind. He believes that motivation is the key.

C The easiest way is to start out wealthy. In a survey of the richest 200 people in Britain, more than fifty per cent had inherited money. Twenty-five per cent of those who head large corporations were born into wealthy families.

D Entrepreneurs are "anxious people, non-conformists, poorly-organised, and not strangers to self-destruc­tive behaviour". Twenty-five per cent of top executives are unhappy with the long hours they have to work and the destructive effect on their family life.

E However, a recent study by Professor Gary Cooper, of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, has proven this wrong. Professor Cooper studied the lives of successful entrepreneurs sand discovered that sixty per cent left school early, either due to expulsion or boredom.

F Another useful feature is height. Other qualities being equal, employers are more likely to select taller can­didates to fill vacancies.

G Most of today's courses on positive thinking originate in America. Many start by emphasizing the importance of self-belief, and its role in being successful.

H However, it is possible to be too beautiful. You can easily find yourself employed as a decorative figure­head while your less attractive colleagues are moving up the career ladder.

I All these methods are the result of the fact that the old idea of a career ladder leading to success in big corporations no longer applies. There is much greater emphasis on personal development.