Leadership Principles - Adrian Clemy

This week's lecture was on leadership principles. Adrian Clemy outlined some of these principles:
1) Take Action
2) Vision
3) Integrity
4) Sacrifice
5) Courage

He presented several examples for each principle but the one example that really stood out to me was that of taking action. The example that was presented for this principle was Winston Churchill. Although he had many talents in other areas such as in the letters (he won a Nobel Prize in Literature) he chose to take up the mantle of Prime Minister and take on the extremely challenging responsibility of leading the country through one of the greatest wars in human history. According to Clemy, he abhorred idleness and passivity. He was a man that lived by the adage, "paralysis by analysis" and thus he valued industriousness. That is not to say that he was not careful to make sure that the decisions that he made for the welfare of his country were well-thought through. He made good decisions, but he did not unnecessarily prolong the process.
That is something that I would like cultivate not just in my leadership style, but also in my lifestyle as well. That is not to say that I will not have socializing time. It simply means that I will put boundaries on my socializing. If there are opportunities to socialize when I must do some homework or some project, I will work on that project. If I have all things done and can afford a little time, then I will indulge in socializing. Because my roommates and I stick so much together, putting clear and concise borders on our collective socializing time would be beneficial for all of us.
Oh! An update on the status of my roommates: I have tried much harder these past couple days to be productive and to not have a moment of laziness. Though I was not perfect, I can see the impact of my efforts on my roommates, who are constantly observing me. These guys have been working a lot harder than before, and though I know it would be a very big act of idiocy if I claimed their efforts as results of my efforts, I DO know that my efforts are not pulling them down. I would perhaps even go as far as to say that my roommates obtain some strength from my attitude of industriousness and positivism.