Leadership Conversations: Challenging High Potential Managers to Become Great Leaders

CHAPTER 6

Your Relationships Define You

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see it as a place you go to give, and not a place you go to take.

—ANTHONY ROBBINS

How do you view the people you lead? How do you form relationships? What unique contributions do you make to relationships? Your responses to questions like these are the basis of the relationships you have today and those you will build in the future. They reveal what you stand for and define the reputation—your leadership brand—that you bring into every conversation. To the extent that your reputation is authentic and you are faithful ...