A Check For Your Change

Consider the pace of your evolution without reducing the costs for your formation.

A great leader was preparing an aggressive military campaign for the conquest of a foreign territory. After having consulted with his best commanders in regards to choosing the best attack strategy, they agreed that the best solution was to start a sea strike. The next day, the great leader talked to his soldiers:

- If we want to win this war, we have to attack by sea. But first, we must learn to navigate, because we don’t have enough experience in handling boats.

Do you show a permanent concern to ensure your evolution a finality that is in favor of the “horizontal” coordination of a decision taken by analyzing the general state?

Only experience can support the functioning pace of a quality leadership. Experience is a necessary part in your evolution towards a statute in accordance with the level of your expectations. And that is why it is necessary to critically value the aspects related to your character and how much you are willing to give, so that your evolution process to fix any deficiencies and anything that goes wrong.

Are you permanently preoccupied in assuring your evolution a result favoring your leadership? Do you live among such people that try to hold you responsible for some circumstances in which you didn’t use wisely your potential as a leader?

Your professional evolution is like a check that you receive by mail every week, which partially regulates your financial status, but doesn’t guarantee your success. This check confirms the fact that you have paid for a certain amount of time the obligations pertaining to you. At the same time, the check represents the value of what you are able to build before paying the price of a colossal victory.

First of all, leadership must be understood, supported and then valued. For it to evolve, you must know how to use to their best those “value check”, that the level of your performance puts at your disposal in order to adjust your pace of development. The checks are meant to bring a modest (but significant) contribution to acquiring traits, qualities and knowledge assimilated over time in order to help you get through any situation threatening your reputation or deterring you from fulfilling some goals – so to speak, in the situations that need a change of plans.

Leadership is a form of manifestation of the law of causality and expresses the process of self-determination of phenomena that are difficult to predict, being in fact the result of evolutionary trends outlined with a certain firmness.

Ensuring that your evolution has a purpose that is in favor of “horizontal” coordination of a decision taken through the analysis of the general situation, means pursuing a strictly individual satisfaction paid without personal loss for the benefit of others. What do I mean when I say “horizontal” coordination? I am referring to the need to impose rules or measures for everyone, which can facilitate group cohesion. These rules or measures must also justify action to ensure a climate of order, maintain people’s development potential and promote examples of good practice.

The way you organize your resources determines your performance. What is war if not a long confrontation between two or more rival sides? Each of them wants to win the confrontation by overcoming its adversary in efficiency, ingenuity, in weaponry and occupying the desired territory. During battles, each camp has successes or failures. Even if one of them lost a battle, it can still win the war, depending on the strategy it applies in the meantime.

No matter how effective the strategy the army applies, it will never be able to start a war and a battle if it’s not ready to win or to support the consequences in case it will lose. In a war, the best prepared army wins, you rarely get a “rematch”, especially when there are no rules or when they are not observed.

A leader will have to justify his investment in maneuvering innovative techniques, approaches and practices, as a kind of corollary of the law of causality which cannot be a simple result deduced from the facts of experience, because he himself is the author of this experience.

Preparation is more than necessary. You must be sure that people are well trained and that they have understood what you expect of them, and it is mandatory that you have the material resources and financial means to support them during the entire war. Simply put, if you don’t know how to organize the resources you need (such as time, the material basis, the human basis etc.), you will not be able to undertake efficient actions in view of preventing an eventual failure.

Consider your pace of evolution without reducing the costs for your formation. If you know how to organize the resources you need to the contribution of your formation as a leader, ensuring in a timely fashion a preparation to give your abilities time to develop, your success will be guaranteed.

Do you give your full interest in your formation? Does your evolution reflect the most profound and comprehensive understanding of your own potential as a leader?

Leadership is the opportunity to get to know yourself through the exercise of looking at yourself from the perspective of other people, so that what favors your evolution is given by their motivation for efficiency.

A Check For Your Change is the one-time payment you make to cover any future losses, and you can only pay with the experience of handling events in your favor. It represents that minimum help by which you can truly progress. It is a help of a great value and which you give to yourself by your formation and development. In order for you t get enough experience in handling leadership you must navigate through the formation options and different types of approaches that you adopt and are meant to evaluate your degree of efficiency.

Conclusion: The components, just like experience, are obtained in time. Sometimes, you are stimulated to develop as a leader, but most of the times, you must invest in yourself in order to learn and to improve. Sometimes, you get various rewards, even material, sometimes your merits are given too little, too late.

When you will be acknowledged as being the best, you can consider having received the most consistent check – the true reward for your tenacity and assiduity.