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My friend, Jim Cathcart, has a question he suggests you ask when you're facing a difficult choice. It's marvelous in its simplicity: "How would the person you want to be deal with this?"

When I was a somewhat wild young man, my mother used to say the same thing every time I left the house for a night on the town. "Remember who you are," she'd say.

The best commanding officer I ever had summed up his theory of leadership in a single sentence. "There is no leadership unless there is leadership by example," was the essence of how Captain James Ayers led his Marines and what he expected of his junior officers and NCOs.

If you've read this blog for a while, you've heard this next quote before. I use it over and over because it's so good. Howell Raines describes legendary Alabama football coach Bear Bryant this way. "Coach Bryant had an idea about how a man ought to act and if you watched him, you could figure it out."

If you're a leader, the most important thing you can do, before developing sophisticated strategies or mastering slick communications techniques, is to act the way you want your people to act. Don't kid yourself that it doesn't matter. It does. Don't imagine that you can fool your people. You can't.

The harsh reality is that when you're put in charge of a group you're a leader whether you want to be or not. Your only choice is what kind of leader you'll be. How you act will tell the tale.

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Wally Bock has helped people learn to be great bosses for more than a quarter century. His latest book, Performance Talk: The One-on-One Part of Leadership, makes learning key leadership principles almost effortless by teaching through a story and providing lists of resources for further growth.

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