{"id":679,"date":"2014-01-01T19:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:11:05","slug":"its-how-you-act-not-your-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/its-how-you-act-not-your-position\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s how you act, not your position."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How Can Mid and Lower-Level Employees Influence Their Superiors?<\/p>\n<p>At its heart, leadership is about taking initiative and influencing those around you \u2014 and that doesn\u2019t just apply to people at the top of an organizational hierarchy. Everyone in an organization can demonstrate leadership, and they should.<\/p>\n<p>Pat Cormier, my Kotter International colleague, says, \u201cLeadership isn\u2019t about position. It\u2019s about how you behave and how you act.\u201d Watch the video to see what else she has to say about leadership at all levels.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/33717531?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Can Mid and Lower-Level Employees Influence Their Superiors? At its heart, leadership is about taking initiative and influencing those around you \u2014 and that doesn\u2019t just apply to people at the top of an organizational hierarchy. Everyone in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/its-how-you-act-not-your-position\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidcmills.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}