Good Morning,
My current read is “Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership” by Steve Farber (www.greaterthanyourself.com). This is a combination parable and real life look into the concept of GTY, or Greater Than Yourself, where we work to help someone become greater than we are at something. In the process, we end up improving ourselves as an added bonus.
This is done by investing our time wisely into helping someone who wants to improve themselves to get better by using all of our knowledge, resources, networks, and ability to help them improve. I love the concept of helping others, and it makes sense to invest time into one person and making that person a project. In the end, the person who was your GTY project can turn to and do the same for someone else, or even to us if they are better at something that you want to improve upon.
Imagine a world where we all had a vested interest in people becoming better at all different parts of life, be it leadership, reading, swimming, raising kids, Microsoft Word, or whatever. The love that is involved in helping others and in turn helping us would make it a much better place.
Steve Farber points out three steps in the Greater Than Yourself process:
1. Expand Yourself – Find ways to increase your knowledge, skills, networks and resources. The more that we have, the more than we can give to others in the way of knowledge, training, networks and resources.
2. Give Yourself – Here is where you take someone under your wing and put your all into helping them improve. This is not merely coaching or mentoring. It goes beyond that. It is investing the time to improve others (the suggestion is tithing your time to helping others become greater, like using 10% of your workday allocated to helping others). We are all busy, but we all could set aside an hour or so a week or more to helping one person, and after a while, we will find we can give more (using email, telephone, etc. in addition to other meetings).
3. Replicate Yourself – Now our GTY project learns and grows and then finds someone that they can help, and takes on their own GTY project. As John C. Maxwell teaches about the end result of leadership being the creation of leaders who themselves develop other leaders, the GTY goal is the same.
I am now looking for the person who I will take under my wing as my first GTY project and at the same time, I will be searching for someone who may be able to take me under their wing. We all can learn and grow, and what better way than having someone who truly cares about us and our success, that loves to see us succeed.
I really enjoyed this book and in the end, I could not put it down. Now its time to put the material to work.
Enjoy!
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