Success is definitely not luck. Be it on a personal level on how to lead a successful married life or on the financial aspect of it or even at work as a leader there are a number of things to learn and consider in order to be successful. Sometimes luck helps to achieve unseen level of success, but is not the only way to be successful.
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Criticism, traditionally has been seen as a very bad thing that can happen to a person or to an organisation. Criticism exposes how bad things are and shows a sign of dissatisfaction. It does tarnish the reputation and credibility and many times forces people to lose confidence and guides them to fail even further. Many of us hate criticism and would try really hard to avoid it. We tend to use a variety of techniques such as being offensive (as many say, “offence is the best form of defence”) to trying to be friendly (so that people do not criticise straight into the face). Unfortunately not many of us think about facing criticisms and using them to our favour.
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In one of my previous articles, i wrote about 5 most important attributes of a great leader. The attributes listed there are essential to rise up to the level of a great leader and differentiate a great leader from a good leader, but what does it really take to sustain it? If you ask successful leaders, most of them would agree it requires equal or far more effort to sustain their position when compared to the effort spent to reach there. So what would the most essential attributes of sustenance be? Read on…
A few months back in a leadership training course all the participants were asked a question – “What makes a good leader?” The 12 of us had various views and there were many suggestions. Some of those suggestions were obvious and basic factors required to qualify as a leader like education, intelligence, communication skills and desire to be a leader. But when we were asked to list the top 5 qualities that distinguish a great leader from the crowd, we had to think harder. After a brainstorming session, we came up with a list of top five qualities which we all agreed to be the most important requirements for a good and successful leader.
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Does team work work? I would say ‘Yes’ but only if properly thought through and formulated. What one cannot achieve as an individual, a team can definitely achieve. As many of us might have experienced, a team can be a valuable asset for a company if properly formed and managed and at the same time can also be completely demoralising when badly structured and guided. I personally have had some experience working in both situations – one where a team of complete novices were able to build an excellent high performance product on schedule while on the other case where a number of highly skilled and experienced engineers had a miserable time to design a product due to bad team dynamics. Given that, it cant be said that the first team that was successful will always be successful. One should remember people evolve and change all the time – so does the team that contains people. So it is completely down to the manager (and also to some level to the team members) to not only manage evolution and fuel growth but also to make sure the team is never over or under qualified for the job.