Apply this to your Life as Youth

Mahatma Gandhi and Alexander the Great helped change the world because they lived by example – and, as a result, they accomplished great things.

APPLY THIS TO YOUR LIFE AS YOUTH

If you ask a co-worker to do something, make sure you would be willing to do it yourself.

If you implement new rules for the office, then follow those rules just as closely as you expect everyone else to follow them. For example, if the new rule is “no personal calls at work,” then do not talk to your spouse at work. You will be seen as dishonest, and your staff may become angry and start disobeying you.

Look closely at your behavior. If you criticize people for interrupting, but you constantly do it yourself, you need to fix it. Yes, you want people to pay attention to one another and listen to all viewpoints, so demonstrate that yourself.

If in the spirit of goodwill, you make a rule for everyone to leave the office at 5:00 p.m., then you need to do it too. If you stay late to get more work done, your team may feel guilty and start staying late too, which can destroy the whole purpose of the rule. The same is true for something like a lunch break – if you want your team to take a full hour to rest and relax, then you need to do it too.