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Leadership Principle #2: BE TECHNICALLY AND TACTICALLY PROFICIENT

Post author By Dave Guerra
Post date July 20, 2017

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #2: BE TECHNICALLY AND TACTICALLY PROFICIENT

Know your job. Know your job to the point that you can do it in your sleep. Then once you can do it in your sleep learn to do it an entirely different manner. Your proficiency with what you do is what will set you above and beyond others. As a leader, the pinnacle of leadership is not only being above and beyond your peers but using that technical and tactical proficiency to help others reach your level. See that proficiency is NOT something that should be horded.

Oh no, while popular belief will have you thinking that one leader is enough. Imagine a group, a company, an organization full of leaders that are the top of their game. Those leaders then do everything they can to create new leaders by sharing their skills and knowledge with their followers. Teaching others is how leaders become great leaders. Your followers deserve you at your greatest!

Thank you,
David Guerra, MBA

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Leadership Principle #1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement

Post author By Dave Guerra
Post date July 17, 2017

LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE #1: Know Yourself and Seek Self-Improvement.

An authentic leader is always looking to improve their place in life. It is when the leader STOPS learning and improving that the honor of leading people comes to an end. Never stop moving forward. Never stop improving and you will always succeed and pass along that success to those that follow you.

Knowing yourself is one of those never-ending, lifelong tasks that a leader cannot slack off on nor can they view while wearing rose colored glasses. Objectivity is necessary in order for any leader (at any level) to see themselves for who they really are. Failing to be truthful to yourself is unacceptable.

The first time you fail yourself is the moment you have given up any chance of being leader. A true authentic leader. Why? When you cannot be honest with yourself, how can you possibly begin to know yourself, let alone try to seek any form of self-improvement?

Without the truth, the truth to yourself, you cannot begin.

Thanks,
David G. Guerra, M.B.A.

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The Second Step Is The Hardest Not The First by David Guerra

Post author By Dave Guerra
Post date March 21, 2017

They say the first step is the hardest. They are wrong. The first is actually the easiest. It is the second that’s the hardest to do.

Why?

Think about this, the first step gets you off your ass. The first step is deciding to do something. The first step puts you on the path. But, it is the second step that matters most. See the second step can take you in any direction. Hell, it could even take you back to where you started. Then what?

The second step is all about taking you places. The second step is the realization that you are not going back to where you started even if you do take that second backwards. That second step is moving you in a direction that you choose to go on. You can go to the left or you can go to the right. Unfortunately, as by now I have made it clear you could choose to go in any direction including taking a step back.

So what’s the point of all of this?

The point is to stop putting the emphasis on taking that first step. Anyone can take that first step. Anyone, including cowards can take that first step. It is what you do with the second, third, fourth step and so on that matters most.

When you are standing at the precipice of change and there is nothing you can do but to get out in front of it that the second and the next steps you take are what put you in control of change or riding the crashing waves of change. Now who does not want to be in control of change?

Set a course!

Before the first step and the second you must know where you want to be go. You have to make certain that your goal, your mission, the end of your journey is exactly what you want. By knowing exactly what you want you then can set off on that journey. Yet, as any sailor knows the winds, the tide, and other ships will interfere with charted course. The same will happen to you on your way on that journey. So don’t worry when you go off-course. You adjust and get back on track. Ships and airplanes go off-course and adjust their path accordingly.

Take the second step, Keep moving forward, keep adjusting, and you will reach your Destination.

Then what?

You Start All Over Again!

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