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| The facts speak for themselves |
| On February 03, 2009, in Top leadership, by Neculai Fantanaru |
Improve your leadership ability, by equipping your potential with those "alert pieces" that can keep you "alive".
In the movie "The Great Escape (1963)" MacDonald (played by the actor Gordon Jackson), has instructed the encampment’s runaways – namely, how should they react if, after the escape, the German officers would identify them at the control points.
- Keep in mind very well! Do not speak English. Speak only German and only what I have taught you. The German officers will use a trick to verify your identity. More than likely they will ask something in English. Whatever it is you do not answer anything. Pretend yourself that you do not know English.
Towards the end of the movie, MacDonald with another runaway, manage to get close to the border with Spain. However, when they had to enter the bus that should have pass them the border, are stopped by two German officers that require passports. After a short conversation in German, and after they have checked their documents, which seemed to be fine, one of the German officers uses the trick: "Good luck".
Happy to have escaped so easily of the control, MacDonald replied to the officer while boarding on the bus: "Thank you". Suddenly, he realizes the mistake made, but it was too late. They had already fallen into the trap.
The facts are more precious than words
A moment of inattention has cost him life! Precisely he, MacDonald, the one who instructed the runaways on how to proceed in order to escape, warning them not speaking in no way in English, fell into the trap. How do you explain this thing? Well, MacDonald was a good teacher for the other prisoners, he knew to instruct them, to guide and to put on guard, but when it came time to put into practice what he taught others to do, he simply forgot his own advices.
Are you leaving your guard down even when you have to make the big step?
This scene from the movie is useful to remind us how vulnerable we are when you leave our guard down, and when we do not respect the principles of which we are headed. Frankly speaking, many leaders become seriously ill from this disease of "forgetfulness" if I can call it like that. They know all about how to lead a company, how should be motivated people and how could be obtained the success. However, when it comes to put into practice their own principles, precisely they are making the bad shot most of the time.
Are you feeling stuck when you have to press the gas pedal?
Are you listening in the car that kind of music that makes you vibrate? If so, then you are probably familiar with that feeling when listening to certain tracks, you press the gas pedal and feel that you are your absolute master. This is the moment when, not being blocked by any other machine, you can maximally release your potential.
Your capacity of focusing yourself on what it is important to do, is like a song that makes you press the gas pedal of your potential when you are put in alertness. If you get stuck when you have to you press the gas pedal, your leadership will never catch a great getaway.
Your success in all that you enterprise, will not be influenced insomuch by the ability of preparing yourself thoroughly, but more on the way you are acting, on the way you are relating your practical potential on the level of knowledge that you have gained. Your real training begins with the knowledge that you assimilate, but the test of your perfection ends with what you know to do with them when you have to put them into practice.
If I think about the movie "The Great Escape" I consider that of all the runaways, MacDonald was the weakest link. Even if he understood very well to instruct the people, he was the only one who failed the "practice test". He failed the test of his perfection!
Put in time on the move your own functioning system, otherwise you risk waking up with unpleasant surprises. Always equip your potential with a well-developed practical sense - with those "alert pieces" that can keep you "alive".
Conclusion: Be careful on how you are directing people and what advises you give them, because if what you tell them does not resonate with what you do, you may lose your credibility and you risk to not be followed by anyone.
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