MONEY & ENTERTAINMENT

Can you say in just a few words what it means to be a good leader? Can you say the same thing in the pages of a book? Is there a “universal recipe” that takes you up there and that holds you there? There most certainly isn’t…But you can get the basis from the professional activity of the recognized leaders around the world (at which you could add your own experience). Many times, books teach you new things, but, most of the times they certify the justness of your decisions and show you what you did wrong.

The day-to-day dangers.
Behind the word “leader” – arbitrarily chosen by the language rules to designate a function – there is always a person with his/her needs, desires, aspirations…

There are traps along the way. Maybe the most important trap is the lost of the human contact, and with your own. A leader’s most important task is to learn to pass his limitations and his comfort point. The virtue of a clean heart lies in the courage to save the innocence and the curiosity, the doubt, the compassion and love, even in the most difficult moments.

Learn about the success of the others.
The importance of experience exchange should not be neglected because you can discover in the mistakes of the others the same mistake you were about to make.

“The McKinsey Way” by Ethan Rasiel and “Managing the Professional Service Firm” by David Maister are two books that represent a guide for any person who works in the services domain, no matter the job they have. Ethan Rasiel worked for McKinsey and manages to present very accurately the company’s and the people’s ingredients that made the company successful along the years. David Maister is a professor at Harvard and he is a consultant for many successful companies. In his book, he gets into a lot of technical details about how to create and to maintain a successful business in the service domain.

In management, like in any other job, both the theory and the practice are very important. The way you apply theory in practice is very important. It is also important to have the strength to learn from your own mistakes.

Learn from the experience of other people.
Generally, in one’s activity, one should not end the education process ever. When you have finished reading about all the parents of certain doctrines and their disciples, you will always discover next to you a talent whose confession has not been set in the pages of a book.

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“Winning”, Jack Welch’s second book, written in collaboration with Suzy Welch, his third wife, is a special one.

Jack isn’t theorizing, but he is trying to structure and to tell an extraordinary experience and a hard work career. Business can be moral and honest, and it is advisable that it is like that, as you cannot win if you have around you people who always agree with your ideas. Ideas come from different places and the “sir” talent is to learn from your people and to allow them to learn from you. These are just some ideas which Jack expresses in his book.

It is never late to say “yes”
We all know the fact that we only use a small percentage of our full capacity of work and judgment. The fact that we can educate ourselves bit by bit to become more aware of our full potential is also known. If there is someone who has reached this performance, why shouldn’t we take advantage of his knowledge?

About this theme – maximizing the human potential – Dr Ron Jenson writes in his book “The Pyramid of Success”. If you want to read it rapidly, you will probably finish it in a couple of hours. If you feel the need to reread it, there may be some things in which you have found yourselves and you are about to say a “yes”. The “yes” is usually followed by a “now I explain why I accomplished a certain thing” or”this is what I need!”

The book synthesizes in 270 pages almost everything that you could find in the motivational literature. It is all bout ten motion principles: move things (the way you take your lives into your own hands); assume your own individuality (you are what you think you are); exclude negativism (be proactive, not reactive); have lasting principles (how to do what you have to do); follow the way of your own mission (beyond success, to importance); integrate in an equilibrate way everything in your lives ( how you can have time for many activities); the reasoning zone – reason actively (how you can positively change the lives of the people around you); make your spiritual energies work (how you can accomplish a great interior force); change your trajectory (flexibility is an important ingredient for the recipe of success); avoid giving up ( if the purpose you have proposed to accomplish is a noble one, don’t give up!)

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