The Map Of Leadership
Stop by more often on the threshold of the leadership’s art, carefully struggling to elucidate its meanings.
In the book “ Every patient tells a story”, the writer Lisa Sanders tells about Doctor Wainapel, whose sight was seriously affected. However, he was still practicing well his job. When she asked him how he could consult patients, although he could hardly see at all, Doctor Wainapel replied:
- My patients find out pretty fast that I can barely see, but there is another strange part. They bring their MRIs, because they want me to look on their radiographs. Why do they do this? Because they know that I can barely see. I have often thought about this paradox – why bring images to a blind man? Well, they do not want me to see them, and do not care about that. They want me to help them see what happens. They want me to help them understand. This is, actually, my job. Like of any other doctor.
Can your practice be conventionally understood in terms of the contribution to a victory over suffering, by reinventing the primordial monument of access to the space of an invisible reality?
Leadership is based on an axiom: you put into practice what you know. Within the best relationships with people, in your becoming as a leader, you must unleash your abilities, but also you should concentrate on what you have learned from other professionals, and to put into practice what you have assimilated from them. If you have not understood the art of leadership, then you have not been able to “see” the essence that it creates, meaning that the role that you should fulfill does not work to its true capacity.
The only important factor in building personal and professional relationships is discipline. Without it, it is as if you put your hands on a map, but which does not show you exactly where you are. Discipline in the relationship with great professionals (mentors) is the key that allows your progress, it is the only way, by which you can forward through the contradictions that, in your ambition to perfection, you cannot predict and solve. Discipline means doing everything properly, understanding those real supports you must rely on in order to obtain performance.
The first sense of leadership is to accompany people in finding and connecting with the valuable content within them. The second sense of leadership is to see yourself repeatedly as open to transparency, to satisfy an emotional need, not to get attention. The third sense of leadership is that of existential and spiritual law, through which a special being can extend people’s access to a reality that transcends any understanding, because it can solve a problem where apparently no solutions can be found.
In order to decipher your map of leadership, it is absolutely necessary to know the “language” that the professionals use it. In other words, you must have a mentor that would help you really understand “what happens” in leadership.
The space of an invisible reality is that form of contact with a truth which, from a medical point of view, cannot be removed in any way, and which comes to light only when your heart agrees to believe strongly in it (even if it does not understand it).
Just as a doctor’s secret lies in the careful observation of details – the more thorough the research is, the more successful the results are – so the secret of an effective leadership lies in the ability to believe in the professionalism of others and to rely on the help of a mentor. You must first believe in the one, who provides you a clearer, fresher understanding of the complexity of the art of leadership, and then to follow him.
The map of leadership and the reality that you perceive are not identical. Most errors of interpretation of these maps appear because you overlook the essential of what you need to know, understand and respect. If there is no direct correlation between what the map shows, and what you really are, it means that you have not reached yet that stage of evolution, in order to explain yourself everything.
Is it needed someone with a “view” better than yours, to guide you towards understanding the map of leadership? Do you need to consult a “doctor” whose responsibility is to interpret the map as accurate as possible? Is it needed someone to calculate your exact destination, for which you have to proceed? What is the essence arising from his inspiration and help?
The reinvention of the primordial monument to access the space of an invisible reality presupposes a transition from an empirical dominance of the profession (precise execution of the profession) to the idealism of faith based on conclusions based on evidence and arguments that can prove the existence of a superior, indirect causality.
The Map Of Leadership is a representation that can be deciphered only with the eye of a specialist, of a mentor who perceives the essence of things differently than you. Your ability to rely on him raises or lowers your level of training.
Stop by more often on the threshold of the leadership’s art, carefully struggling to elucidate its meanings.
Conclusion: As well as in other areas and in leadership all can be learned. Only with the help of mentors, through your personal and others’ experience, you will gain the necessary abilities to find the correct route on the map of leadership. Starting from the basic notions, acquiring the experience of others, learning from success, but especially from the mistakes of others, developing the necessary skills for analysis and synthesis, you will be able to reach the terminus point, when you will be appreciated for your excellence. On this route, you will encounter especially “human” obstacles, and you will be surely accompanied by the masters who guided and taught you. And you will have to decide if you want to go ahead, or you want to go back from where you have started.
