Adjust your attitude and practices  adequately,  in relation to your own  potential to create results  for  your leadership to take shape.

During a trip on the Nile, Pharaoh Kheops wanted at all costs to test his sons' abilities to navigate and made them row. He told his sons’: "Who knows how to navigate a boat proves his ability to govern a country. Both require skills, steadfastness and firmness."

The ability of leading people is similar to sailing a boat. No matter how trivial it may seem at first sight, sailing it is not at all that simple. If you walk for the first time in a boat, you could barely make it start, and then, more likely, you would spin around in a circle or you will move very slowly. However, with time, if you practice, if you learn how to use the rows and how to synchronize your arms’ movements, you will be able to navigate in the proposed direction more easily.

If you are at the beginning of the road, and you do not know how to lead people in your chosen direction, probably you do not have the skills. Even so, you do not have to worry. It is normal at first to be unhandy. Be convinced that very few leaders have a born talent; most of them build their talent through time. Only by practicing day by day you will be able to develop the skills and the abilities of an effective leadership.

Just as a good helmsman stops his ship or makes it turn, in order to avoid dangerous whirlpools that the oarsmen do not sight - so the potential of your leadership, not to diminish, and that your influence to continue growing through the medium of others, you must first adjust your attitude adequately, to change what does not work and to be cautious. Manage well your inner resources and skills, coordinate better your practices so that to feel that you make progress. Remember that your progress contributes to the progress of others.

There is nothing easy, neither impossible. Obtaining a high level of performance requires a continuous and sustained effort. If you dedicate yourself permanently to study and professional development, in time you will develop the necessary abilities to work efficiently with people and to lead them. Certainly, you must prove the ability of winning people to your side. And you can acquire skills over time, through practice and exercise.

Adjust your attitude and practices adequately, in relation to your own potential to create results for your leadership to take shape.

Note: Guy Rachet - Keops and The Great Piramid, Editura Lucman, 2004.