PARABLE OF PENCIL

 

Parable Of A Pencil 

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. "There are 5 things you need to know", he told the pencil, "before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be." ONE: "You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand." TWO: "You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil." THREE: "You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make." FOUR: "The most important part of you will always be what's inside." AND FIVE: "On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write." The pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart. Now replacing the place of the pencil with you; always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best person you can be. "Only a good humanbeing can become a good leader."

WALK YOUR OWN WALK

 

WALK YOUR OWN WALK

You have to walk your own walk in this life. And as you are traveling down your road, don’t look down at your feet. Keep your head up and your eyes focused on what you know to be true. Be neither a follower nor a leader. You are not forsaken; you are forgiven, and when shadows exist simply find higher ground to tread upon. If you come across an obstacle or an impasse, pay mind to it but don’t focus on it for too long or your feet may sink into the quicksand that surrounds it. Find the courage to surmount it and continue on your journey. Offer your hand to those you come across who are stuck in their own personal sand traps, but do not point them in the direction you feel they must go, that has to be their decision. Only imply to them that they are never alone, and they will eventually find their way. When you get to where you are going and you look back, it is your own footprints you are going to want to see, not someone else’s. The importance of your trials and tribulations is a gift to be beholden, for that is how you will learn whom you truly are.

LEADERSHIP –THE MAN ON WHITE HORSE

The Lid
The higher you climb, the more need leadership.
Leadership is not a title. The only thing a title can bye is a little time. True measures of leadership is influence.




Five Myths about Leadership

1. The Management Myths
2. The Entrepreneur Myths
3. The Pioneer Myths 
4. The Knowledge Myths
5. The Position Myths

Leadership develops daily, not in a day. It is a capacity to develop and improve there skills that distinguishes leaders form followers. There is no overnight success. Everyone has potential, but it isn’t accomplished overnight. It requires perseverance.

The Process

The Four Phases of Leadership Growth

Phase 1 ~ I Don’t Know What I Want.
As long as a person doesn’t know what he doesn’t know, he doesn’t grow.
Phase 2 ~ I Know What I Don’t Know 
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge
~Benjamin Disraeli
Phase 3 ~ I Grow And Know And It Starts To Know
You can be a great leader, but it won’t happen in a day. Start paying the price now.
Phase 4 ~ I Simple go Because of What I Know
Frightening your way up


The Navigation

A leader is one who sees more than other sees, who sees faster than other see and who see before other do.
The larger the organization the more clearly the leader has to be able to see ahead.
Every past success and failure can be the source of information & wisdom –if you allow it to be. However no matter how much you learn from the past. It will never tell you all you need to know about the present. Realistic leaders are objective enough to minimize illusions. They understand that self-deception can cost them there vision. It is difficulty balancing optimize & realism, intuition & planning, faith & fact. But that’s what it takes to be effective as a navigation leader.

Charting the Course With a Navigation Strategy

P Predetermine A course of Action 
L Lay Out Your Goals.
A Adjust Your Priorities 
N Notify Key Personal
A Allow Time for Acceptance 
H Head Into Action
E Expect Problems
A Always Point to the Successes
D Daily Review your Plan
Major barriers to successful planning are fear of change, ignorance, uncertainty about the future & lack of imagination.


THE REAL LEADER

The real leader holds the power, not just a position. If you see a disparity between whose leading the people, then the person running the meeting is not the real leader
People Become Leaders Because of…..
 Character: Who they are
 Relationships: Who they know
 Knowledge: What they know 
 Intuition: Whey they feel
 Experience: Where they’ve been
 Past success: What they’ve done
 Ability: What they can do

TEAM BUILDING

EVERY ONE IS PART OF A TEAM



SIGNFICANCE

Teams:
 Involve more people
 Maximize a leader’s potential
 Maximize his weakness
 Provide multiple perspective on a problem or goal
 Share the credit of victories & blame for loss 
 Keep leaders accountable for a goal
 Can simply do more than one individual

We tend to stand alone because of our Ego, Insecurities, Naivete and Temperament.


Becoming a Better Team Member

 What Major Goals are you working toward achieving right now? Write some of them down.
 Think about the Greatest Dreams you have in your life
Now ask yourself
Is it bigger than I am?
Does it bigger others as well as myself?
Is it worth dedicating part of my life to?


THE CHAIN 

Not every will, should or can take a journey 
The strength of the team is impacted by it’s weakest link
You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst

Becoming a better Team Leader 

Remember your responsibilities come in the following order.
 To the Organization
 To the Team
 To the Individual


THE SCOREBOARD

The team can adjustment when it knows where it stands.
If a team has to accomplish its goals it has to known it stands
The scoreboard is essential to
 Understanding
 Evaluating
 Adjusting
 Winning
 Decision-making


Becoming a better Team Member

 Take some time to identify how you team keeps score
 Think about :-
-How you should be measuring yourself individually
-What you should be keeping track of, to make sure you are doing your best?

THE PRICE TAG

The team fails to reach its potential when it fails to pay the pay the price. 
The price must be paid by everyone. If everyone doesn’t pay the price to 
Win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.
“The price must be paid all the time. There are no victories at bargain Prices.” Dwight D.Eisenehowe

The price increases if the team wants to improve, change or keep winning.
The higher you are, the more you have to pay to make small
Improvements.
The price never decreases most people quit don’t give up at the bottom the mountain, they halfway up it.

You seldom get more than you pay for.

Becoming a better Team Member 
If you are an achiever, write down some of dreams & goals
Which one of them are you willing to give up?

When your personal goals conflict with those of the team, you have 3 choices 
 Put down the goal (The team is more important)
 Put off goal (it’s not a right time)
 Part with the team (it’s better for everyone)

Remember the price tag for failure is greater than the price tag for success .
The price for accepting failure is: Poverty, depression & a rotten sprite.
You should be willing to:
 Make financial sacrifices for the team 
 Keep growing for the sake of the team
 Empower other for the sake of the team
 Make difficult decision for the sake of the team


BUILDING YOUR DREAMS TEAM

THE NICHE

All players must have a place where they add the most value 
Start by finding the right place for you
Be secure, Get to know yourself, Trust your leader , See the big picture and Rely on your experience.