This age is of being the best version of you, being able to provide unmatchable value in everything you do, regardless of your position or title.
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The following 7 points throws some light on what it takes to be a leader beyond the title.
- Embracing Creativity – Despite of being a logical person, she has led her right side brain as well. So she thinks outside of the box in select situations and innovates. She is not frightened of original thinking like most of her environs do. She is always ready to embrace creativity.
- Mastering At-least One Skill – She’s able to do her job like no one else does. She’s the best. She’s done everything possible to gain the best possible knowledge and applying it in the right kind of situations. She’s learned, unlearned and relearned that skill. Impact of her mastery is that she’s respected by everyone she relates with; by the virtue of her excellence.
- Being Genuine – She has spent meaningful time to identify what she actually is. She decides what it takes to be genuine. She smiles when it’s natural and doesn’t paste on a masked smile to fit a situation. In other words, she says what she means and means what she says.
- Showing Instinct – She makes optimum use of the natural leadership resource that all of us have, the instinct. Nonetheless she evaluates all the possible actions with optimum analysis; she operates straight from the gut. She is totally aware that the instincts are below the airfoil of the subconscious and helps her base her feelings outside of reasons.
- Assuming Responsibility – She takes responsibility for all she does. For every situation, For her happiness, for her well-being, for doing her job well, for being the best family member, for her better health; for making best use of her energies, for every area of her life, for everything that’s happening to her. For example, she assumes responsibility like Peter did in this story.
- Adopting Discomfort – She is comfortable being uncomfortable. She sets the next impossible target and crushes that with handsome margin. She understands that the risks are always personal and the benefits are for all. It is not that she does not feel the dread; she does but still chooses to do it anyway.
- Traveling Road-Less – She has aligned herself with the foundational principle of effectiveness. Timeless, unchanging principles which create fundamental paradigms for her to operate. She refuses to travel the broad, well-traveled road to mediocrity and chooses the road to greatness which is full of meaningful-challenges.
Power Question: Are you limited by your title or unreasonably able to lead your way?
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