[The leader in command]

Some people are good at running a business but not managing people. The thought of having a certain type of an individual being a leader leaves one with bile strolling through their veins as they just don't have what it takes. Leadership is about charisma, people-centricality, presence, vision, and system before other aspects.

Leadership is a chance that you get to turn and make it what the desired result can mate for the outcome expected from your position. You have to influence good over evil, spread the spirit of unconditional care and uncontroversial support. It's about relying on facts more than opinions. Truths like "those who make early promises, barely keep them" and "position yourself before possessions" else "leadership can lead to crisis if lead with chaos"; should roam in your head all the time as it's a territory marked by mantras and mottos. And bear in mind that 'it never take a group, but you alone to lead the group' [1]. 'You don't need affirmation, you give it decisively, because you're a leader, but if you look back, it's your miss' [2]. Take your place for it's not about second in lead, but rather second in command.

A position of leadership presents to you either by fortuity or per plan, a causal for a chapter in your life that fulfill a mandate to the main goal or one of your set  targets. What you achieve should be not for your individual claim by shame, be rather bold about every victory no matter its irrelevance to the other who matters less, for it's a game of impressions to ones who matters. Leadership is about the team singing your praises as an individual. Your leadership style is your first stamp of individuality, it's key to instilling culture in the team.

As the head of the house, be prepared to be firm, listened to, followed, and feared by some at times, and that's on the positive side, then on the negative side be harsh because of being challenged, disrespected, ignored, and talked bad about. It all but depends on the level of your position in lead. If you're an incumbent you're mostly going to struggle in that you'll be reporting to the nexts whom may be the ones causing you the drama.

It might sound as if being an incumbent leader is tough, but it's not, thing is it's easy for them to detach themselves sans any consequences unlike in the case of an attached leader. Leading what you own is hard. Truth is, pressure of failure by you is more than thrice in that a fail means you're losing a part of your worth and lifelong livelihood. Try creating spaces of comfort and breath there. The stress that goes with leadership as an owner is unmatched with anything, it's so hard as expectations are higher than with an incumbent leader. It still though not say you shouldn't try it. The thrill that goes with leadership as an owner outdo many adrenaline rushes, and rewards.

In conclusion: 'if they want a leader, be the class of a leader they deserve; if they demand a commander, be that kind of a commander it befits. But if wants both, be a leader in command' [3]. Be never ashamed of doing that with patience, dedication, parity and passion. In business you have to be good at running an entity and managing people, and but possible that you may not be successful at doing both, so, be not good but excellent in either the one you choose because 'leadership is a struggle of equitable balance, and wherever you are planted, the leader in you will show' [4],,,so, let's see yours...dp

[1, 2, 3 & 4] by KgeleLeso

[Liberate your thinking]

To think in boxes spoils the thought tank, and how much it takes to restore the waste of used reserves a river to back-fill. How people view liberation an ignorance begging for a full course in liberty management. Free reign attracts to you the same crowd as the blank cheque spenders, the type that just don't know how to make of trust in them to do right and know what's enough for their value.

Give someone a blank cheque for them to use and you'll see, or tell them they've got free reign to do as they see fit and the results will knock you out for a week. With choice you need to be of sober mind as you need experienced emotions to feel the spirit of the giver. Think with all angles checked, and you'll never mess with any heart.

Learn to be more with logic and reason with your conscience, then you'll feel free being in your character. The person you are is judged by the thoughts they put to action. The beautiful thing about opening up your mind is coming up with big ideas that frees up your mental block. Nothing is as good as using your head freely. Ideas are borne out of being in a space that's allowing you to be your best of self.

In conclusion: liberty is responsive to any taker, and it goes against nothing. Be it that the taker is a user or an abuser, it obliges without saying, and that's what worries about it. True sense of liberation is responsibility, accountability, transparency, and honesty. Liberty is power, and what you think and do with that power is absolutely up to you. If you think freely of any bounds, favour or fear, you gain respect for your individuality and independence.

Liberation in thought processing is a bit of a challenge to those who finds it hard to be themselves enough. Compare your thoughts never but benchmark your acts to gauge how far your thinking is. Just be, unlock your power to think, that's then you'll fully unleash the potential laid within your greatness. With a good clean mind, thinking can be fun. Unclutter your head and the mind will think better. Just empower yourself for none'll do so for you if aren't free enough to recognise your liberty to be and do you for you as you. The new struggle is for free thinking...dp

[Approach on opportunity attraction]

It takes years of hard work for others to be wishing and dreaming of you as an ally, associate or partner. For people to be like that around you, takes a serious achievement. What every person gets attracted to is who you are, whom you associate with, what you are, where you make your living, your mobility mode, and other statement making things of status. But what they all forget is that those things they’re attracted to are yours and in no way will they be theirs unless through joint arrangement like marriage, partnership or co-ownership, and such aren’t easy and not applicable for just about anyone.

Being cool by association can be equated to entitlement and faking it till you make it. Being close to someone who’s made it doesn’t tend to benefit you in most cases as the one may be keeping you near them for something you do for them that’s profitable to them, or for recreational purpose, or for security purpose, but whatever it may be, it is against what you’re after. It’s sad to be telling someone about a business idea you have and have them tell you to stop joking, it says explicitly that they don’t take you serious and have none other than yourself to blame. How you approach a person of interest or of value to you, should be direct and not be any other way. You find someone go to an opportunity bringer while they reek of narcotics or alcohol and expect to be taken serious and listened to, or be that you have too long around such a person and after they read your weaknesses be then thinking about talking business with them, no, that won’t work at all.

What opportunity seekers should learn is that the best time to talk business is when nothing about you is known and have the opportunity bringer be after your profile, not any other way. Be interesting, not too much. Don’t take an opportunity bringer to your floozies and be star struck and expect to be saying anything worth listening to after. Be organized, presentable and if be in what you’re working with the better as it shows you mean business. Why should you go meet an opportunity bringer with ties because you’re ashamed of the overalls you don when you’re on the tractor with or working that gearbox with? Proposing business is about more what you are before whom you are, so let it come forth first.

Sad seeing some spending more than they could afford so as to be seen as all that for impression, or spending so they could court their target, and but that not working all the time in that what you’ll be saying shouldn’t present a mismatch from your act. Appearing cool needs to be sustained and that’s costly. When you are in seek of assistance, just be frank and unapologetically go after it. Being cool by association won’t help as you may mention some names and piss your opportunity bringer with people who won’t even do anything for you. State your case and be judged upon that.

In conclusion: if go in first time as a funny man you’ll be making an impression that you’re that stress reliever and forget about any money to you about anything serious beyond that, and that’s the nature of business. Be careful of how your presentation is to people all the time. It looks good being in the company of achievers but your behaviour is key in how they see you because they’ll only want to do something with you only if you prove to be worth their risk. Also, lying with unsustainable truths not worth the impression put on. Being with them doesn’t automatically say they’ll assist you, and you telling them to do for you and throwing tantrums after their failure an own goal too. Stick with your first presentation and die with it else you’ll be viewed in a bad light and that’s worse than keeping quiet with your aspirations...dp  

[Ordinary citizenry]

Words like “ordinary man on the street” and “ordinary citizens” bore me to perishable state. I don’t know about you, but as for me, anyone using them and still be calling themselves a leader is a worry to note. Thing is, ordinary refers to deficient quality, inferior, average, and all other uninteresting meanings that actually demean and belittle those they address.

What this translates to, is that the one calling others ordinary is extraordinary and important, hence they be driven in escorted blue lights and guarded in almost all spaces they occupy to show us they aren’t like others. In case you’re wondering, on this one I’m addressing politicians. Something they should underline in bold is that those in business aren’t ordinary, and that they’re even more important than them who sustain their lifestyles through worn out rhetoric and empty promises. Newsflash is: “below ordinary is where you’re slotted.”

The sad reality is that the very citizens you belittle are finding themselves in positions they are because of your below average thinking and reasoning capacities. It breaks my heart witnessing how you fail yet haemorrhage taxpayers’ money with poor decisions taken. Thing is, with politics there’s no calculated moves because accountability is a foreign misconstrued conception by the ordinaries ruled over. It’s a very sad and sorry episode to be in and having no power because some of the ordinary elements fight from dawn to dusk for their allegiance to them. 

Ordinary isn’t a usual in the world of business because the cost of a miscalculation is accounted for and punishable unlike with the below average bleeders of governance in lead. Anyone who accepts they’re ordinary should take another look at themselves and think again. Saying you’re ordinary is a mockery to your bearer and creator. Think of your fingerprint, everyone’s is unique to show you that you’re not ordinary. If we were ordinary, then we would’ve seen by intellect, your thoughts should be poorer to the myriad of hoarded political leaders shelved in many parliaments of this world.

In conclusion: don’t conform to preconceived standards that you’re shoved with via media, you’re an exceptional being that is manipulated to see and think of self as below great that you are, never allow that. Judge yourself by your ideas and skills, and you’ll realize how unmatched by them you are. Put your head up for you’re better in an extraordinary way, as an exceptional being doing extraordinary things ordinarily...dp  

[To be teachable is a blessing]

Being self-conscious of your knowledge limit is one of the brightest measures to gauge oneself with honesty by, to avoid embarrassment and self-hurt. It’s not to say that you need to lower your esteem or develop inferiority complex attitude towards self, no, but simply being reasonable with self for your level of knowledge. To not know and declare it is much wiser than to not know but hide it in that there’s danger alone in doing so.

What people should realize is that if one doesn’t know it doesn’t say they are foolish or stupid, or worthless. What non-knowledge of something should be seen as is an opportunity to learn and as nothing below that. Anything that’s new to you presents a chance for something new to know. If only we looked at things like that in a different light then we would’ve been far off as a nation, and also wouldn’t be looking at someone who’s non-knowing differently.

Our attitudes are clouted by unnecessary thoughts to life and its things. What others say about life and its things also influence the thinking machinery in us. If we take life as it is and be still in it then we wouldn’t treat one another same way we do like it is always. We need to remember that our understanding of things and people won’t be same and so is our education levels, and should respect that. Some of us lack that very basic education of understanding the outer workings of education in its uniqueness that makes us interesting beings we are and you a unique subject of interest.

In conclusion: to be available for a learning process is a big favour unto self and an extended benefit for the nation as a whole. What you learn is a positive thing for not only you and your akins, but for the industry you’re in too. The gains of education are huge if your soul and spirit are wholly invested in it, should you allow for self to be teachable. Know that to be teachable is a blessing in that you attract good things to self that in the end gives you growth that morphs your importance as a person you are. Be teachable, and you’ll see what a blessing it is...dp

[More personal in person]

Ever asked yourself what goes into the wild energy that drives an argument from a mild spirited debate to an uncontrollable rage that so much cry in beg for a filter those involved deny it? When thoughts you know as facts gets challenged with mockery it does that to one. Anything that’s close to heart easily catches a choky melancholia whenever it meets a vile dip into ashes of corrupt verbal diarrhoea, as it riles the soul in a bad way the inner can’t handle better indifferently, with but just squares of scores to settle. It leaves no innocent ground to step on except near the good gates of cemetery. 

But then, being personal in business is unavoidable in that your soul is poured into everything that goes into building it. Whatever you’re doing as a part of that movement takes a bit of you and when it gets attacked you’ll defend it with your all because it’s personal to you. The harshest toll of truth you needn’t be afraid of telling is that nothing is as more personal as your own creation, and with business, it’s worse, as it has an array of elements in it.

In pursuit of one’s dream, the path to success has sweats stacked up with alienated window shopping aspirations that rhymes to no appoggiatura from any system that offers expiation. The loneliness that comes with the shine search narrows supply of friendly faces to crack smoked ice with. Sad thing is, your future asks for spectacles and no frame allows for squeeze of your size, thus leaving you with bitterness tattooed to your apposed memories.

In essence, attempts boosts never the underpaid in the process. Life of a businessperson a usual fixture in the slaughterhouse of hopes and dreams, and up to one to shield theirs with cred. Fails build a person only if are playing the hand of courage but in business reversing you into an arena of its own kind with thorny walkways. It’s hard cladding self with glory and get away sans and discard in there. The energy that roams the world of business touts strong soles with tenacity else you’ll die of complaints from bloated bureaucracy, nothing is more personal than that villipend feeling; it’ll make you appreciate your person more and also value your success during your season of economic harvesting. Go in with lowered expectations.

In conclusion: with all those bad registrations of horrid experiences there’s no way you’ll have anything good to say about your journey. But, as they say, make a lemonade of the lemons they give you and with stones thrown at you build a strong staircase to your way up in. Assign yourself to that  yang of self-ability. Be there in person for self and more personal. We all know that negativities that cluster the business world can demoralise you but armoured with your vision nothing can come to vanquish thy passion embellished within. One good thing about starting self is the pragmatic lessons roaming abound to imbibe to your growth. Be there to witness yourself...dp

[Circumstantial liars]

Business will make you a liar, underline that and accept to live as one. Operating a business a painful experience in your early days. Most of the times things don’t go as expected and mess up with your promises to your given word. Truth is, service providers don’t respect and treat a startup same as an established brand. Also, not to be quoted as being racist, but in some occasions the skin colour adds to the type of service you’re to receive after the size of your business. Believe you me, the world of business is a tough street to walk if aren’t with the right pair of shoes on your feet.

When they say that you have to think on your feet they really mean it. The thick politicized veil of the corporate world is not a sweet chariot that’ll take you home anytime soon, if you catch me. The startup operator has the hot iron with no handle in their hand all the time and expected to still come out of the house with ironed clothes. The playing fields are different and stages of competition aren’t similar. What I’m still not sure of is who’s outside the stadium and how do they see the game as they have the chance to peep in both stadia; their conclusion is of much importance to the game partakers, especially if they’re strict about voting with their pocket power.

Running a small business you get to learn that when they say the service provider close doors at 15:30 to make sure that you’re there by 15:10, otherwise you may find them for you closed at 15:25, and none to stand up for you to be opened for. Such instances makes the list in the lies you’re ever accused of. What’s sad is, in almost all of the lies you tell to your consumers, they aren’t of your doing but by others failing you purposely at times. In business there’re no true friends, put that in your head if you don’t want to learn the hard way. The people you engage with are simply civil rivals who opt to keep you near but not close to them.

Strategies and plans deployed in the small business level vary with those in the larger entities because the struggle is different. With a small business it’s a fight for gradual infiltration while in the case of the latter being maintaining position and expanding the brand’s offerings while fighting for consumer retention. What the game stands as is, the smaller player lie for covering disappointments resulting from the big player’s sabotage while the bigger player lies to sell their offers and their brand with the one brand one product message rhetoric.

In conclusion: rest assured, everyone in business is no different to you, what differentiate you from them is the size of their entity in market share and asset base. Apart from those, both you and them are liars, and that’s the nature of the business world. What separates the market is the sweeter lie to the other. Then, let’s agree that all in business tell lies because of circumstances and, despite all the sad stories there’s no other place we’ll be other than in here making runs in-betwixt the thrills that makes it interesting to be in this tough and mysterious world...dp