The Irreplaceable Forwarder Of Honors
Your value is given by the extent to which you raise others to a high level.
The famous French sculptor, Antoine Bourdelle, proved to be an exceptional teacher. Everybody admired his sculptures, listened to his advice, received lessons from him, following all his indications with admiration and respect.
Bourdelle, who was full of artistic ideas, urged young people to concentration and reflective study. He often said to them before they proceeded to work:
- Before acting manually, contemplate the model; create in your mind through analysis the built image that you will sculpt or paint with your hands.
Can you form in your mind, by analyzing a deterministic model of cause and effect, the image from which you can forge a reality of a relationship between perception and representation?
To make yourself agreeable, you should let those around you learn what only you know, giving whole-heartedly your talent, generously donating of your resources for their success – a help really arisen both from your heart and your reason. They must find a reliable man in you, faithful to the cult of gratitude and friendship, eager to turn his knowledge into their benefit, and not at all greedy in sharing his fame with them. Are you an active participant in their formation?
Is there a sincere desire to improve others in you? Are you happy to be able to contribute? In order to be an example for others, you should firstly give full value to your vigorous talent to fit into their world, their work, contributing to the total transformation of their perceptions about what art, respectively leadership is. Take a look within yourself. Where do you stand, in relation to them? Will you find certain “anomalies” in the way others look at you?
In any case, art is the easiest way to build a strong image. Art conveys a complex message, presenting itself as a symbol of finesse and consistency. Before you are useful to people, learn to be useful to art, because only art suddenly conquers the world. Just as football is played on goals, leadership focuses on collaboration, in the true spirit of fair-play and “is played” on that field where people can win with you through a consistent and intelligent effort, and each common, well-coordinated, balanced and universally applicable approach means another step towards success.
To form in your mind, through the analysis of a deterministic cause-effect model, the image from which you can make a reality of the relationship between perception and representation, means to attribute a suggestive characterization based on a work belonging to art.
The ability to relate with others is like a building where different impressions are built and which can collapse if they don’t impress by utility, accessibility and performance. Just as disciples enrich from day to day their souls with new impressions about the art of their mentor (if he reveals with great enthusiasm from the secrets of the painting that he practices, as well as from his experience), so the people you surround yourself with can count on you only if they come to believe first in the leadership that you practice, only if each of them gets to say: “One day, I will be like him.”
The famous American writer C. Maxwell has emphasized very well this truth: “Trust is the only important factor in building personal and professional relationships. It unites followers to leaders.”
Do you intend to make accessible to others at least some of the secrets of your art? Or do you destroy the climate of trust, hiding from people information that would help them to develop and become as good as you are? Do you shrink into yourself? Or do you offer to others the key to transformation, to absolute performance found within you, within the wealth of your knowledge and the profound originality of thought? The science of leadership can’t function unless you actively develop the trust of others in you.
Your value is given by the extent to which you raise others to a high level. But the value can also be given by the extent to which you express your conception of art, showing your mastery in giving birth to an amazing creation.
Leadership is the easy way to build a suggestive comparison with the help and justification of a creation that fits the theme: “You must constantly remind yourself of yourself in a picture”.
The Irreplaceable Forwarder Of Honors can be you, if you anticipate the needs of improvement of others and if you contribute to promoting and maintaining them to an optimal level of development. If they expand their knowledge to an advanced level and visibly improve their skills, then you will get open-stage congratulations and honors.
Conclusion: Each individual has built during his lifetime a scale of values, in accordance with his education, culture and professionalism. These scales are not identical. One who considers himself the top of his scale may correspond to only half of other person’s scale and even at the bottom of a leader’s scale, and in relation to the “standard scale”, everyone to be below its peak.
The purpose in leadership is to get as high as possible on the standard scale, based on improving human relations, from the identification of training needs to strengthening relations of collaboration – for all to improve and ascend higher in comparison with the standard.
