Demonstrate Personal Leadership - We Only Get One Go

Imagine you get to drive a team of international forensic tsunami-ravaged Thailand next day without time, no staff and no money. With clarity of purpose, Inspector Peter Baines 'managed chaos with certainty' - citing the example of leadership Mayor Rudy Giuliani at September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. Challenges require unique solutions.

The Boxing Day 2004 tsunami was one of the most devastating disaster to affect the world in modern times. The level of devastation is difficult to rationalize in human terms and is a great blessing for us to better understand the suffering and triumph in these times. With regard to disaster recovery that we have learned, 'Hope is not a plan.' Wishing people well in their time of need when you can help would be good but not good enough. This is the greatest legacy Baines'.

True leaders are identified by their actions and reactions - what they do. After all, they say, 'Leadership is a verb.' [1] These people lead without authority. Manage chaos with confidence. They have a way to stay calm through the storm, effective for the tasks at hand.

They have clarity of purpose. Det. Insp. Baines describes the wall of water that took so many lives that has left few families untouched affected. There are so many orphans. As a parent, you can identify with the struggle of trying to physically hold your child or children as the torrent swept through, rendering it powerless to restrain them. Dealing with this level of pain would be overwhelming if not for the sense clearer and clear-in-your-own-mind to do. There are many priorities competing for our attention and care, including those in our personal lives, we must be clear at the central level because otherwise what you're doing any good work and effective leadership staff we could easily be compromised, shared, and won, leaving devastating consequences.

Declarations of value does not mean anything unless you can back up into action. The words may seem strong, and we are inclined to say many things that lead up to. Our true values ​​are refined through the screen of reality. Come to the fore when our resolve is tested. We really know what we stand for when the heat is on. Words alone have limited power, action, however, speaks volumes and makes the difference.

The communication makes its mark: it is our choice. And 'the choice of looking at leadership as people who need it, rather than as a process to get things. Get in touch with people, as a way to drive, might not seem a very effective way to drive, but its effects are highly paradoxical.

Det. Insp. Baines said issues of leadership and results, not excuses, what needs to be focused. This has relevance in our personal life, as in our business lives, like any area of ​​life. Too often we excuse ourselves trying to improve an area we're not happy. We lack stamina, and Det. Insp. Baines explains this as a process that affects children's motivation and how to counter it into results.

Results matter, not excuses. We must have the commitment of courage to face adversity head every day. The challenge of the leader goes on. That's why we are all leaders. Our challenges continue, and we never really overcome them. At the end of the day, Det. Insp. Baines own words', "we only have one shot" to life.

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[1] Quoted by Gino Valenti ....