Neculai Fantanaru
Everything Depends On The Leader
Everything Depends On The Leader
I really hoped I would become a consummate artist. Deep inside, my heart filled with hopes, thirsting for novelty, originality and innovation, I felt I was able to build a career and do more than other aspirants for the title "The Greatest artist of all time" did. It was the only thing that mattered to me. But I had a hunch that things wouldn't please me.
One day, I sat beside my master, close enough to see him work, but far enough not to disturb him, because nothing should distract him. However, while watching him without losing him from my sight, trying to assimilate as more as possible of his pictorial tricks, I impatiently asked him:
- Will I ever be able to succeed in imposing a new ideal of beauty in my work, as you did, and get famous one day?
The master, who always talked with enthusiasm about the art he served to, answered me with his untroubled peace:
- Nicu, you must be fully mature in order to undertake something great. And then you must provide the brilliant proof of your virtues of great artist.
A leader transposes his traits of a great artist into the work he creates !
In leadership, skill and personal experience are a preponderant criteria. To lead means to focus on your own point of view, but also taking into account other people's point of view. Means to learn how to put your talent to good use, astonishing those around with your special qualities, pointed out through the leadership you create and practice.
Any fact perceived by reference to the artistic traits observed in someone else becomes a possible transparency, a reality by which you enter into another reality, in a realm of infinite analogies and associations. The liveliness with which the master continues to share thoughts, memories, impressions, experiences, desires, questions, and answers, come to transpose me into a beauty-filled universe.
Just as my master's ability and flexibility never cease to amaze me, even after so many years spent with him - so your leadership must be consistent, coherent, flexible, so that people always leave themselves trapped in your power to spell. To leave themselves trapped I'm not going to say by curiosity, but rather by the well articulated interest you inspire to achieving a quality "work".
Expressiveness is a form of art presentation that contains artistic images and figures of speech by which you forcefully convey the ideas and feelings that other people are enlivened by. It is latent in the incipient stage of creation and can be deduced through the perspective of the experience with which you fulfill your emotions with reflections referring to the impact the final image can produce (resulting from certain situational contexts).
You will more easily identify the feelings and thoughts of an artist if you manage to identify the essential compositional elements in the interpretation of a work of art, with the help of artistic means (including figures of speech).
It is worthwhile to remember the words of Romanian writer Cornel Ailincăi: "Everything, no matter how humble or insignificant, in its precarious appearance, conceals an alterity. Following that, each sensible trait, each shape, color, brilliance, texture, materiality, each shade or partial alteration of these traits can become a place – a crack in its material opacity – through which we penetrate beyond, into a realm of infinite associations."
Art has its secrets, it’s all about knowing them. For an artist’s art to get a boost, he must not be content with making simple and graceful paintings. His technique can achieve a high degree of perfection only if he translates himself into the work he performs.
A great artist allows for a victory of the compositional elements, that nobility of the masterfully executed finish of emotion "essences" with the help of associations between the reference objectives and contents, between life experiences and artistic variables.
Like an artist, seeking to satisfy his innate aesthetic sense, turns all his qualities into a quality work - so the leader, enlightened by hope and faith, based on his reason and possibilities, must apply his creative qualities in his work.
Certainly, the leader has dreams for his future. Reason and ambition can push him forward, but without some chosen attributes, able to meet a number of qualities valued by people - such as vision and intuition, dedication and emotional strength, he will not be able to impose his own model of leadership.
A leader can't impose himself only by his intellectual superiority, but by providing the brilliant proof of his qualities of great artist. And to be a great artist means to let yourself get carried away towards ideas that lie beyond what the ordinary intellect can grasp.
In Search Of The Miraculous starts every individual who aspires to high ideals, namely to achieve the title of "The Greatest artist of all time" . What certainly encourage this evolution are his intellectual, moral and emotional qualities, which reflect in the quality of his activity, with which he effectively achieves his own work. They indicate his certain possibilities of success.
In search of the miraculous, it is necessary to struggle hard in order to improve and self-improve, in such a way that your "work" be the brilliant proof of your qualities of great artist of leadership.
Why read this book? Because it is critical to optimizing your performance. Because it reveals the main coordinates after that are build the character and skills of the leaders, highlighting what it is important for them to increase their influence.
The essential characteristic of this book in comparison with others on the market in the same domain is that it describes through examples the ideal competences of a leader. I never claimed that it's easy to become a good leader, but if people will...
For some leaders, "leading" resembles more to a chess game, a game of cleverness and perspicacity; for others it means a game of chance, a game they think they can win every time risking and betting everything on a single card.
I wrote this book that conjoins in a simple way personal development with leadership, just like a puzzle, where you have to match all the given pieces in order to recompose the general image.
The aim of this book is to offer you information through concrete examples and to show you how to obtain the capacity to make others see things from the same angle as you.
Without considering it a concord, the book is representing the try of an ordinary man - the author - who through simple words, facts and usual examples instills to the ordinary man courage and optimism in his own quest to be his own master and who knows... maybe even a leader.
