Posts Tagged ‘Leader’
A LITTLE EXTRA IS THE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP
A little extra effort always gives a person an extra edge. Art Williams in USA asserted, “You can beat 50 per cent people by hard working, 40 per cent by honesty, integrity and standing for something; and remaining 10 per cent is a dogfight in the free enterprise system.” To win dogfight you need to do a little bit extra.
No leader can achieve success by doing what is required. One has to put an extra value to his work to achieve excellence.
Leaders are consistent and continuous performer. Legendary people never quit, once they decide to do it, they make sure that things are done. They have conquered quitting habit of an average people. We have to sit with 10 extra smart people and asked them, what extra quality have made them most successful person? (Even if we have to pay, we should pay to learn)
Dedicating little extra, always cost you extra by time, effort, resources and much more. We need longer view while incurring such cost to our work, business and profession.
I come across a person, who always come up to door (sometimes up to lift-door) drop his guest. He shows a smile and up his hand in the air while saying good-bye, irrespective of the level or standard of the person. He makes sure that the person is very properly seen off. When, I got the same treatment from him, I asked him, “Are you doing it for me?”
He said, “No! It is my way of life.”
Have you ever seen a perfect leader?
My view is: “It is a process and may take thousands of years. To create perfect overnight, it is a stupidity. We can start it by today and years will answer that question. We can certainly reach to a better level of leadership by investing little extra in relationship and efforts.
We can certainly do extra by helping others. We have to stand with people, customers and friends. Leaders are grateful to the people who have helped them from all the way through all the aspects of life. People always love you unconditionally and shower feelings for your happiness. Leaders keep in mind and stand with those relationships by adding that extra attitude.
Max DePree asserted, “We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.”
Character: An Important Asset of Mankind
No one can live with pride under the sky and over the surface without the strong character to protect his life and to achieve final objective of the life.
You can have 100 definitions of character. If you asked 100 people what is character? You may get at least 50 components of character.
I try to focus on the following components to shape out character over the surface.
A) VALUES
B) CREDITABILITY
C) INNER-OUTER BALANCE
D) WALK ON TALK
E) STANDING TALL
We live with our core values everyday and throughout the life. Values indicate your beliefs and feelings. We must list out right now five values of our lives. I am greatly influenced by three persons: M.K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Swami Vivekananda because of their values.
These people have developed their personal creed and they follow every day. Can I have personal creed? Can I carry the copy of personal creed everyday in my pocket?
Henri Fredric Amiel says, “The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.”
We all need inner balance. Inner balance is everything. That creates identity and creditability. We all must have habit to listen our inner voice. We all should follow inner voice, which creates external life in the world.
Conflict and contradiction in inner and external life make sure more miserable and make the life petty. Slowly, life is controlled by situations and conditions. So, we are unable to control the life, space control the life, which is the most saddest part of the onetime given life.
I think self-discipline can be a tool of personal compass, which leads us to the great living, and help us in achieving objective of the life.
Walk on talk is the sum total of all our everyday actions. It’s an interesting paradox of the life. Why people change their words? If we can talk on our own words, what is the fun in living with those words? And, every day I have to change my words? Why? Someday, sometime, we can understand, but every day, I have to change my words? So pathetic. For every changing words situation, I have logic and reason for defending my integrity. One of the saddest part of the life.
We should not be differing in promises and our deeds. Why we should create such differences in our life?
Can we live with walking on talking formula to live with pride? Can we refer diary and calendar?
How I will live in my absence?
I think character will not buried with you. It will live after you. This is true, weather you accept it or not it will not make any difference to the character on the surface.
Can we all stand tall in our own eyes and in the front of other one? We all have that talent; only few have not tapped it. Standing tall shall be an attitude. We should stand tall at every turn of the life, even in all adversity, even in all failures. We cannot discount our character in any condition of life on any day of the life.
Move Yourself First
“To move the world we must first move ourselves.” Asserted Socrates.
Whatever we are – or – neglect to do - will catch up with us in the end. Those who never often end up as an average person. Most of the people died with unused talent and potentiality within.
Leaders move themselves in the direction with speed. Now a day, speed is the way of living; if you are without speed, you are dead.
Leaders are always initiative. They took the responsibility for making things happen.
Who has not face setback? Who has not face problems and tough time? A day without challenges and obstacles never passed in the day of responsible leader. I think responsible leaders lead initiative quality. When you take initiative and face failure for number of times and seniors in the business houses fire you. What will be your next step? People quit some time or some people share with him, why you have taken initiative, who had told you to do it? Now do not do it, next time. Go in same space, without proactive quality.
Enjoy the living. See us we are here from last 40-50 years. You only do whatever is directed. Finish it and report. That is all.
We have to upgrade our standards to face challenges. We have to bigger our size than the size of the problem and confront it every day. Every day, we have to fight with challenges. Yes! Every day.
You will be never fired but you will certainly finish as an average person and will die with talent within. We should examine the people who died as an average person. Trust me, one of the reason will be, he was not taking initiative.
It is very difficult to become successful without initiative. Procrastination is the fertilizer that makes difficulties grows. How someone can achieve success with procrastination quality. Initiative is a tool of compass of the successful people.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, “Do what you can with what you have, where you are.”
We can start from any place. We cannot blame anyone for our life. Whatever we see, we feel, we achieve, we lose, we experience, we gain, we enjoy and we pain, we are completely responsible. Do not blame others for it. Blaming someone is an easiest job.
Let us start from the place, where we are and what we have. “If I have so …” is not a language of leader who has fixed up his priority along with his passion.
Weather you make mistakes or fail or face challenges or meeting problems, keep on going ahead with what you avail. Going ahead with unstoppable attitude is a true leadership.
Leader always asked question to himself, “What is the best use of my time right now?”
What can I do in present, which will shape my future? Remember, we all have to die, but when we die, we want to die with pride, satisfaction and pleasure. Leaders never do things which create ill and sick feelings at the end of their life.
Simple rule always followed is “What you start, finish.”
People quit because of problems, challenges and de-motivational events. Quitting is the easiest job. To blame from outside the court is a childish play. Anyone can play that game. It won’t give me any wonder.
Leaders do things with what they have and where they are. Remember, golden rule of life: “What you have physically had lesser value than what potentiality you have inside.”
Leaders are always doer. World can doubt your words but world will never doubt your actions. Leaders like formula of start + action.
THREE PEOPLE : PAY WHAT THEY WANT.
An American advertising agency is offering its clients the opportunity to ‘pay what they want’ for creative services, reports Spring wise.
According to the article, Agency Nil is in a position to make this happen by employing recent graduates and advertising professionals who are in-between jobs.
Clients submit a work request to Agency Nil and in return receive creative by deadline. The big difference is that it is up to the client to decide what the work is worth.
The only fees agreed upon up-front are travel, proprietary research tools and production costs.
To date the people behind Agency Nil says they haven’t had a client that has decided to pay nothing, and if one did it is unlikely they would do work for them again.
You’ve got to give it to Agency Nil for wanting to break the mould. Could this be the end of advertising fees as the business world knows them or is the innovation an unsustainable recession gimmick?
I have come across a restaurant in Ahmedabad, India. He never puts an invoice to his clients. Visitors who visit restaurant can pay any amount willingly in the gift box. There is no compulsion to the visitor or no invoice is created. Still today, this restaurant is working very effectively and not making any loss. They have no single visitors who have decided not to drop anything into the gift box.
I also came across a person in Pune, India who has put up a newspaper stall on the side of the crossroad. He put nearly 400 newspapers on the table and put a box where you can insert the cost of newspaper willingly. It was never a demand from the newspaper supplier.
Most of the time, he found that the income matched with his cost of production.
Creator, Restaurant owner and Newspaper supplier hardly came across any bitter experience where people have decided to pay nothing.
I believe very strongly that people are good from inside unless he proves otherwise.
Difference between wise and fool
One of my favourite ideas is backed up by William Bolitho. He said, “The most important thing in life is not to capitalise on your gains. Any fool can do it. The really important thing is to profit from our losses. This requires intelligence and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.”
The problem with the leaders is that they hardly admit mistakes. Even they know that they have done the mistake but they hardly commit and confess.
Leadership is admitting mistakes and learning thorough mistakes.
