You Lost Sight Of It, Didn’t You?

Turn your leadership into a reality check tool, without trying to reveal people’s true value depending on your expectations.

If we see an oak tree leaning to one side, does that mean it does not have strong roots? This question, sparking a comfortable mood, reminds me of that old comedy, with "School for Thieves".

The instructor used to test from the very first day the prowess of his students. Every time he interviewed someone, he left a $50 bill on the table. He used to leave for a few minutes and, when returning, he would notice the bill was still there. "I’m sorry, you are not suitable for this job. You should have… You know what a real thief would have done, right?"

But, stupor ! The bill was still there. Each of the students had stolen something else from the table. One stole a pack of cigarettes, another, a flower from the vase and another, a lighter. So who rose to the bait?

At the final test, when each student had to prove his "qualities" in real life, the professor concluded that things will never happen as he wished. What we expect to happen will always happen differently.

Does your experience allow to be placed in some strict parameters to accomplish, by a vision beyond the visible reality?

We build scenarios, establish strategies, test all kinds of judgments and draw conclusions about people, erroneous conclusions, while contributing to the widening of the disapproval current of those that, in case of leadership, dare to advance to a higher level of performance.

Why? Because we don’t "feel" the truth, we can’t see beyond what we expect people to do, beyond the rigor curtain to dominate a self-imposed reality.

When experience does not allow to be placed in some strict parameters to accomplish, by a vision beyond the visible reality, then the vision itself is shaky, not the experience.

From the first to your last intervention in the area of training and assessment of people, you can be traversed by a hostile spirit, an offensive style of leadership, being one of the main elements causing a certain frustration among people, causing them to draw into themselves and lower the bar of excessively high expectations.

Do not try at all costs to test a man, for his true value will not always come to light according to your expectations. The extraordinary is never obvious, never stands out a mile and is not the result of its own laws of building the desired reality. It is always where one does not look, where one would never even think.

Is the experience that you measure through your acquired skills a form of submitting yourself to an external reality that dictates your own judgment and honor?

A vision beyond the visible reality usually belongs to a will that judges everything by achieving the correspondence between what corresponds to the ideal of perfection and what corresponds to an exigency of the difficult to achieve practical life, especially if it is arbitrary and contorted.

You lost sight of it, didn’t you? Bring out that side of your experience that you ignore due to the strict coating covering the aspects of the vision that completes true reality.