Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It: Why People Demand it

Epilogue

Character Counts

The more we study leadership, the more we're persuaded that leadership development is not simply about skill development. It's also about character development. Consider what one sage wrote:

Be careful of your thoughts, for your thoughts become your words;

Be careful of your words, for your words become your deeds;

Be careful of your deeds, for your deeds become your habits;

Be careful of your habits, for your habits become your character;

Be careful of your character, for your character becomes your destiny.1

And we would humbly add:

Be careful of your leadership, for your leadership becomes your legacy.

Read these six simple lines at the start of every day. They will remind you that what you do as a leader begins ...