The need for genuineness in human relationship to be a change agent

I was listening to a Dale Carnegie Leadership Program CD and here's what I learned yesterday.

In a world that’s quickly becoming Virtual, the skill of human relationships is quickly being lost. The need for human relationship is becoming extremely important and valuable for Leadership. The program emphasises that you need to be a new leader. One who can inspire and motivate people while never losing sight of the timeless leadership principles that has never changed.

You need to be a leader, one who is flexible, adaptable, a servant not a slave, a distributor of power, trustworthy, tough, and decisive. This can be achieved only if people like you.

In the words of Dale Carnegie, “starting tomorrow morning, you need to smile to at least 5 people you see at work, every day for a week. Your smile has to be broad genuine smile and not just a good morning. Secondly, you need to genuinely get interested in at least one person and complement their good work. Two words of warning: ‘Be Sincere.’ Utterly and honestly be sincere. Otherwise, you will be simply wasting your time if you pretend to be interested in other people in order to get something out of them. That’s foolish and wrong, because you will be found out sooner or later. Remember, if you want to be liked instantly, do as a puppy does. Become genuinely interested in other people and show it.”

These human relationship principles will never change and can help you build to be a great leader.

The most important point that touched me was to show genuine interest in people while building relationship. To be a great leader, human relationship and networking becomes critical. It is a core competency that you want to build. If you cannot network and are not liked by people, you cannot drive change.