THE MAKING OF A LEADER

THE MAKING OF A LEADER

People often say “comes a great position, comes a great responsibility” and also to become a leader is not a child’s play. Moreover “Rome was not built in day.” To become a leader requires activity that includes many processes. The process which are involved is similar to achieve who was given birth to yesterday, can that child start speaking the same day, walk the same day and doing some other things that same day. Growth and development naturally evolve gradually and mature overtime. The same goes for the making of a leader.

When a child is born, he/she is adequately fed for the growth purpose and through this; he requires energy that should carry him through life. When he is expected to start walking or doing other necessary things, and he does not, he become a problem or liability as so many people call it to the parents.

Some people often complaint that they are not successful because they are from poor family background without any financial support of the parents and also because of lack of education. However, all these are not reasonable reasons to give up in pursue of success. Many who are presently leaders in our country today are from naturally poor background without much financial help and no moral support.

Certain tips bring about success in leadership. The tips could be given as “discipline”, “determination”, and “diligence”. Without all these three things, no one can become a leader, and also a successful one.

Right from the early stage in life, one must be determine to reach the top or else all hopes would just be like a dream. Determination is getting one’s mind made up to accomplish or tackle a particular task. This could be in the area of education, personal endeavour and religion. This will give such individual the ability to set goals and work hard at realizing the goals such a person with great firmness of purpose and hard work will definitely reach the top.

The second tip is discipline. There is need for self-discipline in order to indicachieve what one has determined to do. Such a person who has the determination to reach the top must not engage in all the things that other people do which make them static. Others may spend their time engaging in unnecessary discussion and play, overreacting, moving about aimlessly and not having a workable timetable except accompanying with bad guys. An intending leader is a disciplined one which must have been cultivated right from childhood all through to adulthood. No indiscipline person can reach the height of a leader unless he/she will fumble at the top.

The third thing is diligence. As it is often said “the hand of diligent beareth rule.” The fact remains that the leader are always the diligent ones. They must carefully plan and work through their plans. All these are not achieved in a day, but are being imbibed into one’s life as one grows. The fact that one has failed before does not limit ones chance of becoming a leader. It however calls for more carefulness and extra effort to reach the top.

One of such is the all time greatest America president Abraham Lincoln who failed many times before becoming a leader, but what took him to the top was his determination, discipline and diligence.

ADELEKE ADEMOLA

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BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION

BUSINESS AND ORGANIZATION

Many businesses and organizations have a perception that marketing means promotions and advertising. They think being good at marketing is producing a glossy brochure and having an ad on the local radio or television.

But marketing is much more than slick promotions and expensive pamphlets. It is about a process and having a clear strategy. It is also about structuring every aspect of your business to include a marketing function.

It is also about understanding marketing strategies, the tools of marketing and the language of marketing. Many people are frightened or are put off by the jargon and concepts put forward by so called marketing experts.

This article attempts to simplify the process. To provide a "how to" of what's required to develop winning marketing ideas.

Many people also believe they are too busy or don't have enough time or energy to develop marketing ideas. It doesn't have to be difficult or complex.

Many great marketing strategies are very simple and straightforward.

In fact, I believe everyone has a great marketing idea inside of him or her just waiting to come out! What’s stopping you from taking the next step?

My goal is to help you overcome any procrastination and provide a framework where your ideas can grow and prosper.

How will I know if I've been successful?

Assessing Your Skills, Education, and Experience

Assessing Your Skills, Education, and Experience 

Your skills, education, and experience will provide you with tools that will help you to

decide if you should start your own business. 

The first step in your assessment is to make an honest appraisal of your personal skills

and education. You should list everything, especially if you are unsure what type of

business in which you want to become involved. Don't list any faults or doubts here. This

is a place to remember all of the things that you know how to do well. 

After you have identified your personal skills and education, focus on your business

knowledge. If you know what you are interested in, list what you know about the field or

industry. If you are well versed, simply outline the general areas. If you are not sure, you

should list everything. Concentrate on specific business information rather than general

life experience. All experience will be useful, but we can only use the business experience

when we are making a decision about what skills you may need to develop in order to run

your business.

The next step is to evaluate your decision making abilities.  When you own your business,

you are in charge, and many decisions will have to be made based on what you think. Not

all of these decisions will have to be made immediately, but some of them will have to. If

your normal response is to give problem solving to someone else, then you will probably

have difficulty with running a business. Reflect on your life experiences. Write down two

situations where you solved a problem and the decision you made worked well. Then

write down two situations where the decisions you made did not work so well. Be sure to

write down what you learned from these situations.

Last, identify your entrepreneurial skills.   Successful entrepreneurs have a lot of initiative

and also take risks, and they have learned from making their own mistakes. Taking a clear

look at your source of motivation and your belief in yourself will help you to be prepared

for the challenges that come with owning your own business. Probably the three most

important factors on the road to Success are: the ability to be flexible, the willingness to

change with the market as technology advances, and the ability to trust yourself. If you

have all of these, you are about halfway there.  The rest is:

•  What do you feel are your main strengths?  

•  What do you feel are your more serious weaknesses?  

•  How do you think someone else might answer the above two questions about you?  

•  What talents do you possess and in what situations have you used them?  

•  How would you personally define the idea of having a job or being employed? 

 Business Start-Up, Where To Begin & How To Grow                                                     

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MAKING MONEY ONLINE

MAKING MONEY ONLINE

Goal is to your business what GPS and maps are to you. When you have a goal, you always know what needs to be done and what to do next; since your mind can play tricks on you if you want to leave your plans to what your memory dictates – something may be missing.

Setting and following goal is a simple things but not easy to draft… Even more difficult is to follow it through – because it is hard work on its own.

However, if you practice it for a try and see how much you get done when you followed it, you’d never want to work without a plan ever again.

Your big goal if broken down into components, becomes a personal plan that you’d follow on a daily basis. The strategic planning process involve how to work that target goal into a daily or weekly plan and activities you can easily get done – one after another.

For example if your target goal is to own a house in Beverly Hills and drive a Bugati in four years time. You may want to draft a plan based on how you can make $200,000 quarterly.

To do that you may need to do these things

1. Learn a financially viable skill

2. Figure how to deliver value so people can pay you money for contributing your skill to their lives or businesses

3. Invest your earned money so it can generate more money. Stuffs like local real estate and stocks

4. Earn more money than you spend

5. Save

6. Start a business of your own (That’s where the real money is anyway)

The six points above would involve that you break them down too.

Eventually, your goal of owning a house in Beverly Hills and driving a Bugati in four years time would become a strategically analyzed plan broken down into biennial goals, annual goals, biannual goals, quarterly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals and daily goals.

Setting a goal is not something you do with your mind. You do it only by making a record of it; on pen and paper or by making audio or video record of it.