After being awake till 3 in the morning working and contemplating on things, it dawned to me that it would be good for me to impart some knowledge about leadership and management. After more than 16 years in the industry and 2 post graduate studies in management and business administration I don't think I am qualified to lecture about management but I can share some that I know and the knowledge I gathered over the past 2 decades. This will perhaps take more than 30 entries on this blog so read on..... And enjoy the ride!
So here we are in the cross roads, everyone reaches this point at least once in a lifetime. This is the point where we ask ourselves where now?, what's next? what does the future hold?. Let me draw on a model developed by The Grove in San Francisco, its called "The Personal Compass". Instead of telling to go buy their workbook or attend their workshop let me just share my view on this particular visual model.
Imagine yourself standing on a middle of a cross road there are six possible ways to go instead of four. Now you have to choose which way to go the direction signs says:
• The beckon road
• The dream road
• The sensible road
• The road not travelled
• The familiar road
• The road back.
Each direction is full of meaning which road are you going to choose?
• Follow the road that beckons showing the way to what you always want to try.
• Take the dream road to follow your wildest dreams, regardless whether you achieve your goal or not.
• Step to the road that seems to be most sensible and follow the advise of people you trust the most.
• Jump into the path you never considered before, perhaps a few nice surprises lies ahead
• Walk on the road have been to and always know where it leads.
• Take a step back to the place where you felt the safest.
To some the decision is easy; to most of us it is not. Before you take the first step consider these questions on your decisions:
• Where did you come from? How did you become who you are? What decisions have you taken? What are the obstacles in life you passed through?
• What is really important to you? What are your values? What do you believe in? What if everything fails, what remains?
• Which people are important to you? Who are affected by your decision? Whose opinion do you value the most?
• What is stopping you? What aspect in life is preventing you from choosing the really important things?
• What are you afraid of? What causes you to worry? What is bothering you?
Now you decide. When is the last time you did something for the first time?
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As for me, all I know is that I know nothing according to Socrates
All difficulties are easy when they are known.
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
It is not what we know that is important, it is what we do not know
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