Hello to all my continued followers and thank you for your support and constant willingness to send in your comments and suggestions because that where all my inspiration to continue to write comes from. Thank you Thank you.
As the photo says it above:How to get started on a journey to perfection in whatever you do. Let me tell you something from the get go. There is no such thing as perfection and one must have a clear understanding of this and what it means. It means that anything that has been created by an individual will never ever be perfect because someone will always come around and tell you it needs change.
Guess what and I hate to bust your bubble but they would be correct. You see you need to know what you do not know and know that you do not know and be able to accept it as such. I find that most people in positions of power will exert that power on people either to control them in the now or in their future which by the way is so wrong in so many ways and yet they do it out of their own fears of rejection or loosing that power.
There is a very clear recognition that although control over material things is a source of some forms of power such as money, buildings or business because you hire the staff. Some people believe that because they own the business or sit in a high position they can do the latter,however ownership of the business or having acquired a high position is not a sufficient basis for the right to influence people.
You know the one thing that I have always told my clients during a coaching session is the following; When people do not follow you or they resist any change in any organization you need to ask yourself why?
Why do they resist me every time I try to make a change? That is the real question. Most so called leaders do the opposite they do not ask the questions and thus end in failure because there will be resistance and change will never ever happen.
What they do next is the worst thing they can possibly do and that is they start to create issues and problems for people in their organizations because this will be the way to influence others and change the environment by frustrating their staff members to the boiling point no return and the people will either quit or do something wrong out of the fear that has been imposed on them and they are let go.
I have seen this kind of leadership behavior which is again so wrong in so many ways because the lives of people and heir families are affected in so many ways and why because the so called leaders do not know how to lead again know what you do not know and accept it!!
The question every person in a high position of power needs to ask themselves is if they have fulfilled the prerequisite of a leader?
Do my people perceive me as a legitimate leader and worthy to hold this position?
I know the politics and I understand them very clearly though sometimes hard to swallow. In most organization leader positions are filled either by appointment or election and many questions will arise regarding the legitimacy of the appointed one.
I have to say though that sometimes the appointed one does not fit the bill in the organization and so because that appointed one is a either a friend of someone in the hierarchy of influence thus will be placed in a place where people that have been around for a long time can carry the appointed one until retirement.
I have also seen mostly in highly bureaucratic organizations that knowledge of organizational rules and regulations is another type of expertise that may become a source of power over those that are new to the organization.
The problem here is that when you hire someone who may not know all the rules and regulations from the get go but is an expert at implementation of regulations and has the practical experience can and will see right through these type of leaders. In these type of organizations I have also found that success form innovation leads to greater credit but if one fails it will lead to greater blame.
Opportunity will not interest itself in the person who isn’t interested in it. Napoleon Hill
In a free and democratic society, the number of opportunities for achievement is virtually limitless. In every business or profession, there are innumerable opportunities to invent new products, to improve manufacturing and administrative processes, and to offer better service than the competitor down the street.
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