What Kevin Kelly Can Teach You About Leadership
Excellent Advice for Leaders
Kevin Kelly is an author, artist, and futurist who has spent his career exploring technology, culture, and our future. His optimistic outlook and knack for spotting emerging trends have made him an influential figure - see his TED talk on why we should be optimistic about the future.
His latest book is titled, Excellent Advice for Living and is filled with wisdom that he has collected over the 70 years of his life. The topics cover a wide range of areas from career, relationships, parenting, and finances, and all sorts of practical matters
While not targeted as a business or leadership book, there are some amazing takeaways that make it a must-read for your growing business and life skills!
Here are a few examples to get you started:
When you lead your real job is to create more leaders not more followers.
Don’t keep making the same mistakes; try to make new mistakes.
To be remarkable, read books.
Criticize in private, praise in public.
Speak confidently as if you are right but listen carefully as if you are wrong.
Greatness is incompatible with optimizing in the short term. To achieve greatness requires a long view. Raise your time horizon to raise your goal.
Cultivate an allergy to average.
People can’t remember more than three points from a speech.
Bad things can happen fast but almost all good things happen slowly.
Recipe for success: underpromise and overdeliver.
With 450 thought-provoking entries, this is a great book to read and read again. Keep it on a shelf or table around the house so you are reminded to read a few nuggets of wisdom.
It is a highly recommended book that I will be sending out to many friends and family members and future business leaders!
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