LEADERSHIP
Brian Maiko
Bcom, CPA-K, AKIB | Investment & Financing | Strategy | Cashflows | Budgeting & Planning | Growth | CRM |
Taking chances is an exposure to risk and vulnerable environments where you are pushed or forced to drop or adopt behaviors that can sustain you to hold on. Such exposures are good for development especially in the professional arena for example if you are appointed to lead. Leadership gives you both opportunities, power, authority but binds you to responsibility in application of such privileges and to account for each decision or action of both you and your subordinates. For this reason people shy away from leadership positions with a view of not wanting to be exposed or being on spotlight over their personality and largely their abilities.
We are all born to do something that promotes or propels another either directly or indirectly but the fear of taking responsibilities pushes us from exercising what we can do or change. Some distance themselves by virtue of what other people’s experiences have been thus drowning them in the deep seas of fear and skepticism. “I cannot do that”, “did you see what he/she went through?”, “that position is too big for me”, “give it to some better person” or some give excuses of being engaged with other detailed activities and they can never or shall never have time to accomplish both tasks if all are assigned to them. Leadership is simply being at the front line of an activity to provide guidance and direction to execution of a given activity.
Being in leadership is not exposure to criticism or public prosecution. It is not a punishment or a curse to take but rather a solid ground to better a friend’s life, enhancing positive change and or lifting a challenged colleague
You will get challenges, you will get disturbed, depressed and stressed over other people’s problems but what matters is making their lives better.
Get not tired, be weary not but step a step higher, be not a role model who is an idol but a helper. Link up with each other and make the longest chain from one to another and on to pass skills and knowledge that will be most important tool and enablement
We are one when we have synchronized code of practice and participation to subjects that we are all involved.
Business Consultant & Coach | Managing Partner at Knapp & Busaidy Consultancy
3 年Nice article Brian, thanks for the words of encouragement