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Leadership Principle #2: BE TECHNICALLY AND TACTICALLY PROFICIENT

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

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 Hustle. The Grind. And Words of Motivation by David Guerra

Hustle. Grind. Those two words have recently got so much play. So much play in that they are now common place.
 
It seems that Hustling and Grinding has become the norm. Everyone is saying it and everyone believes it. They not only believe it but they are living it, as well.
 
So what’s the problem?
 
The only problem I see is sooner rather than later, as is in most cases, words like Hustle and Grind will lose their punch. They will fade into the background and join the words and phrases like; “go for it”, “kick it up a notch”, “awesome” and so on.
 
Once they fade away, what will replace them? What will be the new “Hustle” and “Grind”? Does it matter?
 
Does it matter?
 
Of course, it matters. I need motivation, you need motivation, we all need motivation. So long as people need motivation, there will be words to motivate them. There will be people to say those words to motivate others (and themselves).
 
As leaders, we have to do and say what it takes to motivate those we are responsible for and lead. Those that follow need to feel inspired, especially from those that voluntarily follow. When those words of motivation start to become commonplace, leaders must remain vigilant to not become someone spouting words that have become tired and old. Any leader that values his followers will ensure that what he or she has to say is fresh and most of all; relevant.
 
After all, that’s all that followers want.
 
A leader that is not only motivated but relevant 100% of the time and that’s non-negotiable.

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