One of our newsletter readers shared a challenge with us yesterday. He said that his number one leadership challenge is properly implementing what he learns from leadership “gurus.”
We thought this was such an important management training issue that we wrote an article about it.
Please click on the link below to read what we think about this. Then please come back to the blog and comment on what you think!
www.successfulleadershipskills.com/LeadershipGuru.html
To your continued success,
Rob Linn and Rich Ottaviano
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Ashtavakra, a sage of ancient India, was once, when still a young boy, asked the name of his guru. He said he had had twenty four gurus – his mother, father, uncle, aunt, neighbour, some animals and birds, even the lowly snake. From each one of them he had learnt something or the other. The rule number 1 (if I may be presumptuous enough to lay them down), therefore, should be to have gurus and not the guru.
Then the guru’s teachings should not be taken as the fundamental truth. We must test them against our own knowledge and experience. And if they stand the test successfully, adapt them to suit our particular situation and then, and only then, adopt them.
Even in the face of the finest mind we should not suspend our faculty of judgment; after all this is what that has made us human.
OK, enough of lecturing; now some selling – please visit my blog ‘Leadership Demystified’ [http://leadership-demystified.blogsot.com] and offer your comments on the posts.
Thanks,
Kanan.
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