Inspirational anecdotes from CEO create blueprint to become great leader
What makes Damon Lembi’s story so interesting is that he could have taken the easy way out.
Lembi, CEO of global corporate training solutions provider Learnit and author of "The Learn-It-All-Leader" (Lioncrest Publishing), readily acknowledges there are “serious perks” growing up in a privileged environment when your family is wealthy and well known, well connected, able to open doors and provide top-notch specialists, coaches, trainers and state-of-the-art everything.
However, Lembi believes that great leaders are great students, “and the world is their classroom.” And he wasn’t going to take anything for granted. He was going to learn the ropes and mature through hard work and a number of inherited and developed qualities as the kind of leader he wanted to be.
Leaders in the making
"The Learn-It-All Leader" is not only his story, full of anecdotes, growing pains, lessons learned and ultimate successes. It is his blueprint to becoming a great leader. As he found out, “Great leaders aren’t born. They’re not made either. They’re in the making.”
“If you’re young and anxious about your abilities … or convinced everyone else has it all figured out, please recognize the enormous advantage you have — you’re not a know-it-all!”
If you are a student of leadership, many of the ideas and concepts behind Lembi’s success formula will not necessarily break new ground: Listen carefully, be humble, respectful, trusting and collaborative, build great teams and great cultures, be open to innovation — you get the idea. The difference is that Lembi stresses continuing education as a method onto itself, a necessary spoke in the wheel to make the entire machine run. And he advocates it just as much for team members as leaders.
What’s more, Lembi is a storyteller, recalling his days as a...