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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 443 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I once spoke to a leader who was telling me that life is not so simple as a leader. Actually, leadership is quite often an exercise in facing reality; and he couldn’t face this. This leader had dealt with someone who was very unethical and dishonest, and he couldn’t understand that.
Well, I tried to explain to him that dishonest people are just that, they are “dishonest” and they lack integrity. That’s who they are. That’s how they live. This is what they do. It is what they want to be.
Now there’s a concept called the 80-20 rule. It is to learn to spend 80% of your time as the leader with the 20% of the people who deserve it. A leader has to know that difference. Why is that?
Because in trying to figure out the things the way they are, sometimes, we don’t have an answer.
Let’s say for instance, the laws of nature. You might say, why does fall occur after spring or summer? That should not be a question. That’s just the laws of nature. Why does summer come after spring? It’s just the way things are. You don’t question that. You just accept it.
What you need to do is to learn to work with the things the way that they are. You don’t make that difference.
The task of leadership, however, is learning to spend 80% of your time with the 20% of those who are doing 80% of the work. A leader needs to recognize that. Once you realize that, you can spend individual time with the 20% and group time with the 80%.
For this, you need two key components: strategy and diplomacy. Strategy means to basically understand what you have to do. Diplomacy is how you apply what you know. By doing this, you become a different person and a great leader. You can’t be fooled by the things that happen around you and be disappointed at some of life’s truths. If a person is not telling the truth, they’re called a liar. It’s as simple as that. Now, you may try to influence them but that’s who they are. And the way the system works is that at times, we can’t focus on those things that are not as relevant to us what we have to focus on as 80% versus the 20%, and that’s why. You learn to spend 80% of your time as a leader with the 20% of the people who deserve it.
Once you learn this rule and you apply it, not only do you become a good leader but you make the best of your time of your day, and of every moment of your life, and that’s very important.
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