Orrin Woodard of Team - Knowledge
DiMaio's Leadership Trait #2. Knowledge.

"You can gain the respect and confidence of your teammates by demonstrating to them that you are knowledgeable about your business. Keep in mind, though, that learning is a continual process. To develop and demonstrate knowledge you should:

Learn from experienced people by listening and studying.

Ask questions when unsure.

Notice and correct substandard performance in yourself.

Show your teammates by your example how they can achieve success." (italics mine)

Orrin Woodward, co-author of "Leading the Consumer Rebellion" has made these behaviors a part of his life. I remember that Robert Kiyosaki's "Rich Dad" always told him: "Mind your own business." What he was saying was that success required knowledge and constant study and improvement.

That's why Orrin created the Team's education system - so that all of us can gain knowledge about our business.

I'm glad he did.

By the way, we're in a people business. Now that you know that, you might want to re-read this post.

Orrin Woodard of Team - Integrity
All good leaders possess certain timeless traits. Robert O. DiMaio of the Leadership Institute writes that the following list of 14 traits can be used as character guidelines by which we can evaluate ourselves and others. I'll cover one trait each post over the next few weeks.

The first of the 14 leadership traits is:

1. Integrity - the qualities of absolute honesty, trustworthiness, uprightness of character and high moral principles. Integrity can be practiced by doing the following:

Tell the truth - always.

Stand for what you believe in, even if the belief is unpopular.

Use your power to work toward your organization's goals or for the welfare of your teammates and not for your own personal gain.

Orrin Woodward of the Team would agree for he is a man of the highest integrity. He lives all three of the behaviors DiMaio describes here. In fact Orrin says you can't even step on to the field of leadership without integrity.

He's right.

I wouldn't be on his team if he didn't have integrity.

Orrin Woodward of Team - Determination
In his book, "Cashflow Quadrant", Robert Kiyosaki disagrees with people who say "It takes money to make money." As early as page 8, Kiyosaki says, "... It takes a dream, a lot of determination, a willingness to learn quickly, the ability to use your God-given assets properly and to know which sector of the Cashflow Quadrant to generate your income from."

I have studied Orrin Woodward, leader of the Team, and co-author of "Leading the Consumer Rebellion", and watched as he took this advice seriously over the past several years. He has produced an incredible lifestyle because he has produced an incredible system that anyone can follow to produce similar, equal or better results. Many are on that path today.

And still Orrin dares to dream big. He has incredible determination and self-discipline, devours books to feed one of his greatest God-given assets - his insatiable mind - and generates his income from the "B" & "I" side of the Quadrant.

He followed Kiyosaki's advice! Imagine that! Orrin found a man with better results than he had, listened to him and did what he suggested.

It worked.

And it can work for you too.

Orrin Woodward of Team - Living for Others
"The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success."- Norman Vincent Peale

Orrin Woodward, co-author of "Leading the Consumer Rebellion", is a man who truly lives for others. He's proved it day after day, night after night, fighting the miasma of victimhood in America.

William Jennings Bryan said: "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Orrin made a choice several years ago and created his destiny. Because he did, and because he created a system that you can plug into called the Team, you can choose to create your destiny. But you don't create a destiny by waiting for it.

Here are a couple more thoughts to get you moving:

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."- Dorothea Brande

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing."- Abraham Lincoln

Be resolved and get moving. You will win.

Orrin Woodard of Team - Toiling Upwards
What an insightful piece of poetry that describes Orrin Woodward of the Team:

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

HWL was also describing the rest of the road warriors on the Team. Hail to you all!

Orrin Woodward of Team - Purpose Outside of Self
"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self."- Hugo Black

This former Supreme Court Justice got it right. And he describes precisely the view of Orrin Woodward, co-author of "Leading the Consumer Rebellion" and the other leaders on the Team.

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Orrin Woodward of Team - Goals
"Pursue your goals because if you don't, you'll be used by someone else in pursuit of theirs."~ Stephen Medici, CEO, Black Mountain Group, New York, N.Y.

Food for thought there!

I'm thankful that Orrin Woodwardof the Team decided to pursue his goals and then show others, like me, how to avoid being used by someone else.

Orrin Woodward of Team - A Modern Disraeli
Two quotes by Benjamin Disraeli that bring to mind Orrin Woodward:

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."

"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."

Thanks Orrin, for always doing the first, and being a great example of the second.

Orrin Woodward of Team - Heroic
"The characteristic of heroism is persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have chosen your part, abide by it, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common heroic. Yet we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy and appeal to a tardy justice. If you would serve your brother because it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the most persistent heroes I know; Orrin Woodward co-founder of the Team and co-author of "Leading the Consumer Rebellion", invites you to choose your part, to be uncommon, even when those "prudent" people do not commend you!

Yours can be a heroic life.

Orrin Woodward of Team - Leader
Found another great quote in "The Paradox of Power", the Pat Williams book. On page 176, Pat quotes Margaret Thatcher describing Orrin Woodward! Listen to this as she describes the four ingredients to being a great leader:

"First, know what matters to you. Have a set of principles and follow them. Your principles serve as the foundation of your leadership. Second, speak up! Be bold and fearless about asserting your principles. Third, anticipate problems. Use information, instinct and intuition to forsee problems and crises before anyone else does. Fourth, make bold decisions. Base your decisions on your principles and on the information and the insight you have. Meet problems and opportunities head-on, then take bold action. Those are the four ingredients of a great leader."

OK, so Lady Thatcher wasn't describing Orrin at that particular moment, but she was describing Orrin. He embodies all four ingredients. Orrin Woodward is a great leader.