The Odyssey

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale According to Robert Greene, power is a social game. To learn to master it, you must develop the ability to study and understand people. “ Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power .” Lao Tzu. Finally, you must learn to always take the indirect route to power. Disguise your cunning like a billiard game that caroms several times before it hits its target.  These are 10 powerful commandments you should impose on yourself when you take a role in a leadership position. 1.     Re-create yourself Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others . – Jack Welch. As a leader, changing yourself for the better is the first commandment you should impose on yourself and which you must ...

“ Leaders aren’t born; they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal .” – Vince Lombardi The first question we must ask ourselves if we aspire to be in a leadership position is why? By leadership position I also mean being a parent. Why do you want to be a parent? Why do you aspire become president of your country? Clarity of why will force you to dig deep into the core of your being, to search if your personality will be compatible with the responsibilities that comes with the role you want to take as a leader. In the list of seven principles of an effective leader, Brian Tracey says clarity is the first and most important responsibility. He stated that “ You must absolutely be clear about who you are and what you stand for. You must absolutely be clear about your vision and where you want to lead your people .” The great news is that; leadership can be learned by...