[Health is wealth]

Wealth creation is first on mind and health last on the list. Why's it like that? I can't say better about me, but looks like it's a norm for males to only be careful about their health after having gathered enough to take care of any life problem. With this happening, what could be the contributing factors thereto? And, being mindful that this affects all genders but just that more being the macho beings.

With the life of today riddled with many hoaxes like pandemics, load sheddings, water sheddings, coalitions, democracy, and the likes, you can't blame people for their priority patterns because the only surest thing for all this man-made crises is your certainty of their affordability as a party afflicted. The hard part of this day is not having any weight to your name, and that meaning money in your pocket. Tell me, who'll help you nowadays if you ain't got any for start?

Now, with that said, who in their rightful mind won't look first at making money for them to afford their health? It used to be that one should care for their health as it's your prime asset, but today it's not. The wisdom of this day has shifted, not by choice but by circumstances. Health is gold, yes, yet not when eventuality of its effect hits you. Health is gold for those in practice and for those who affords.

It should be noted that people, especially those who lead, don't neglect their own health unaware of future consequences, but truth is pressures on any leader are just too much to bear. Leaders are forced to care for others, in organizations comply, in all challenges be strong, and with everything that's happening in their lives show up no matter what, and without anyone caring about them. It's not to say it's unrewarding to be a leader, but rather highlighting the risk associated with leadership. Stress hits them harder, disappointment worries them more, and still expected by everyone depending on them to be tough.

In conclusion: to lead comes naturally to some whilst a burden to others, but trouble is the time spent on chasing money deteriorates your health in many ways unimaginable. Lack of sleep, diet compromise, countered depression, etc. are carcinogens and other diseases and health conditions creation factors that to leaders are a danger. So, as much as we invest in wealth creation, should as well invest in health. Reward your body for each milestone reached by investing on your health via a healthy lifestyle and a health insurance. Truth is, you cut make wealth with an unhealthy body, invest in its good shape...dp

[Are people thriving under your leadership?]

The aim is onerous, but the end goal a pin drop to a surface only emotions know from experience where to pick it up. How we know about leading will always be informed by where we saw it applied, and that a subjection to it.

Leadership starts within if you want to run anything with success if put in its fore. It is a must therefore for a leader to then know what those they lead wants out of their leadership style in line with the project objective or company culture and its set goals to achieve. A leader should out of that, coupled with what the outcomes desire, distinguish the type of people they're in lead of, say a team or a group. If a team, must then work to devise a unified approach to tackle obstacles, and a team specific game plan on how to best utilize the pooled skills in their possession to win against all odds.

To obtain a certain level of results from your team, there ought to be a clear plan around them that's tied to your game plan as well your plan around them for growing them individually. As team players, they each need special attention, so, you'll need to develop a method for every one of them that suits their different backgrounds. To unearth a potential of each, tailor a work plan to meet each's optimal performance to deliver a result that's favourable per your routed method for each phase of the project or entity's vision building. Leading from the back or from the front, a good leader always puts the team first before their set goals and themselves, they advance empathy, understanding and the spirit of commercialization through sense of immediacy, teamliness and holistic rewarding.

The team needs to also be reminded that a leader, same as them, is a different cut to paste into the fabric that makes them be as a collective; unified and productive for a common goal and cause. One other aspect of it all is to shape the affinity in cause for a whole different approach to the delivery thereof. As a collaborative effort, the team and the leader ought to gel in order to reach the desired outcomes on every franchised venture whether micro or macro, and within or outside of the workplace. And, mind you, it's a known fact that a team will always have deviants, as such, know how to spot and weed out rogue elements and, have a rebound strategy if there been significant dent to the set time frames. Proficiency is key in tackling such, wherefore, should be vigilant in navigating through.

The team needs to know and be assured of your compass to victory at all material times. Additionally to that, support them constructively. As a leader, you should be consistent in uniformity and parity with guidance, rules and regulations application, appraisals, opportunity availing, gender-based agenda, and being same to everyone yet guided by their dealt personalities on how you're to best attend to them individually. Smart delegation a touch of must so as to fit the prime heights your leadership is centered around. Leadership is an art, samely as working under guidance that's designed methodically to enable subordination. So, lay your game plan as a platform that'll ignite the team's instincts for fire starting in order to let them shine variably to your glow for a collective glory.

In conclusion: different as we are, we share the same vision that's shaped by the company culture, with winning at its core. For the purpose of gathering soles to form a collective, the primary objective is making a living per our prorated ranks and involvements, and for outcomes to be to best favour our desires, needing to deliver at optimum.

As a leader, it's then rested in you to see to it that the team is fueled to the brinks. To achieve such you should recurrently capacitate, navigate easier pathways to success, and offer all tools necessary for their enablement. But, above all, be an umbrella in rainy days for them as a team to individually thrive...dp

Co-author: Boitumelo Madisha 

[Watch your tonality]

As a succulent it suckles the best from one of mother nature's best creations, as an instrument commands through language, as a facial feature makes one lookable, and that's your mouth. Whatever your use of it, let it not be for the purpose of putting another down with its every deployment. This oratory organ is a leader in painting to the world the type of people we are uniquely, making it a blessing and a curse on the same front.

Your words mated to action, are a combo that may break or build another. It starts in how you view things and situations, and reflect your both character and its personality. It matters not from which side you take it, but the manner in which you utter your message is important at all times. With words spoken, there's a lot to take away and form a conclusion on, hence it's encouraged for anyone to pause in delay their say to another or others to formulate a better statement, to avoid hurting the nexts.

When you say things, it always sound like something else if you aren't careful of the tone of your projection. How you voice out and write to another depends on your tonality in how the message gets received. Try reading from others' responses to what you utter always to gauge how it affects them. Truth is, you may be offending people without even realizing it, and if you take your time in evaluating that in others, would make you a sensible speaker. I know, it may not be a wish for everyone, but of some to speak sensibly and at oftentimes politely.

We coexist, and talking to one another all the time, and being pleasant to the other's ear making it a necessity. Your way of command can build you a mass appeal if planning on being a public speaker. Whether formally or informally, anyone must learn to send a message in a manner that disturbs not peace of the recipient, be it directly or indirectly. Tone doesn't have to mean pitching only, but also the approach of command. There's nothing that blocks you from rebuking the other, but shouldn't be out of causing noise and using profanity, you need to respect not only your message recipient but also those around at the moment.

In conclusion: many times you fail to get what you're hoping for because of not the lack of knowledge or hard skill, but be of your struggle with soft skills, with tonality leading the mishappening. It's of utmost importance to invest in language proficiency to avoid hurting yourself as a result. Learn to sound appropriate and say things appropriately, for you to start realizing that which you wish for from what you uttered for. You can be and make it, if you watch your tonality...dp

[Serve per your mandate]

Not a single person who's a leader won't know about this, and also isn't affected by it. To lead is to follow, that's as simple and practical as that. Any leader has a set end goal that they're pursuing, and that on its own render them as followers of sort. What's ought to be clearly put on the lead table is the fact that a leader serves first before they be followed, and won't be any different with you, and if it is with you, to ask yourself why.

Leaders are chosen, and others are there by virtue of their status as incorporators and directors of entities they lead, whilst for many a case of being put in charge of the entities they're a part of. Being an incorporator doesn't automatically make you a shareholder, it ought to be stated expressively from the onset. There must be a first meeting whereof there'll be a draw up of a founding resolution stating in recordal the entity founders and base reasons therefor an entity establishment, its name definition, its corporate colours, its business model, capital sources, where to base it, etc. and in the follow up meeting draft a founding document in the form of articles of incorporation or memorandum of incorporation, to affirm establishment of the entity and its set mandate to its active bearers of note, who'll be tasked with carrying out that particular mandate through guide of that founding document and a policy handbook thenafter developed to house the entity's bylaws. But then again, it's stuff that some went never under during their entity start and streamlining, hence they've got not any policy to follow for guidelines per their mandates.

Then now, what's a mandate? A mandate is an itemized tabular authority given to a representative to act under a collective consent on behalf of either a natural or legal person; a command to timely report back on periodically on its outcomes. In this case, the mandating party are the founders, incorporators or shareholders on behalf of the founded entity, under a guild comprising a board of directors. A leader serves timorously of the binding ramifications attached thereto their set tenure, therefore the primary purpose of a mandate is to instruct the respective representative as a leader to run the entity diligently according to set codes of ethical practice and conduct, and make money that they'll individually split as dividend whilst ringfencing for entity growth campaigns.

A leader with no mandate set for them is there just for self-serving purposes. They need to have a plan and strategy for all of the departments and units of the entity, and where possible, delegate designated personnel for those tasks with the right and authority they have to mandate their subordinates. The mandate is to a leader a legate ticket, and their repute engraved forever long after they vacated the office, so, should ensure they deliver per what's right for their future.

In conclusion: it doesn't matter what you did before your eligibility for carrying out a particular mandate, as long as a leader you know afore what's expected of you to do and be. A mandate has a set of rules pegged to the goals set for your tenure in that position, all tucked into the executive vision of the entity. Be what's rooted in it and do as it's inscribed of you to, as a leader sans any excuse for reasons to do as promised, else, as not the material of worth shouldn't assume responsibility as such, for befitting ones to. Hard as it may sound, it's but in how the take up is in that failed attempt consequential, and that's the just nature of a mandate...dp

 

[Day to day running]

With so much pressure of drama in  boardroom theatrics, you can't blame one for wanting nothing to do with biznes. How people smile and act friendly out of corporate confines but tear at each other once they enter that decision den, truly an eddy kinetic energy. To those who make up the part of its thrill, just another page assignment to scene and out to the slow world once stepped away from the corporate chambers. But then, which side of the biznes will one find comfort in? For me, the answer will always be the day to day running thereof.

Running the daily operations of a biznes is tough but better than the thickly dense on and off relations of the boardroom. It's a treat for anyone who sits from the fard outsets to be in the boardroom but to be real a stressful boulevard to traverse than dealing with ordinary consumers and their obvious antics. Boardroom is a test mastery operation with unpredictability in the gist of its every square inch x-rayed. The daily runnings also have its special breed to make success of the biznes out of, an opinion riddled with undercoat split arguments. A known secret though is, not everyone is either a material of the two, but certain that with an intensive training an eagerly devoted candidate can turn to be a successful material in one of both.

The good thing about day to day runnings of a biznes is that with time you develop a system of your value chain unlike with the corporate side. The skills set required for each, a swim upstream. The day to day runner a leader who's demanding of experience, specialty, accountability, loyalty and efficiency from their charges for their team success on their side, whilst in the other side it's about egoism, fiscal politics and decisions, strategics of  cabalism and select beneficiation, power game plays, loyalty switches, executive governance, and value extraction via RoI, RoE, RoD, etc. a knowledge that's strange to ear as pleasure tones the tympanics in serene. Days are long and tedious when responsible for daily operations, and but not testing if not as a leader. In the case of a small biznes it's worse in that if you lead you get to wear many caps before you could narrow your specialty in the later time of the biznes.

In conclusion: getting it right not from a list out of every leader's page of wish, as many shoes worn when going in left idle and unattended after a few steps from start, leaving miles of steps still ranged for a mile's complete to walk. I may have made it out to be a better walk in the park of commercial world, but still, day to day running of an entity are demanding. With some not filling the form of dailies, a best cut for the corporate side. It really goes with one's archetype. What makes you tick may turn out not me, and same is with this.

Dwell into the day to day and master it, a sure case you won't see flames when you step into the corporate den given your edge over those many impractical academics who knows not the tot of the real economics taste. But, it should be noted that both econometrics and corporatonomy and any other discipline of the truncates, does scream out a high level of knowledge from those qualified in them, and as such, should respect that of them irrespective of their missed days in the practical route of their theorized knowledge transaction. Day to day biznes running a skill that takes years to hone in order to be good in, and appreciation of those keeping the industry ships afloat should be shown to them unreservedly...dp

[The untold truths]

To every success lies a story of difficulties behind, a social distaste that's to remain untold coz none wants to hear it" [1]. Success is beautiful and desirable, but the truth to it not sweet to dreams. Sad is that with the stories of many successful people, left untold. Some who're brave enough to tell theirs facing ridicule that they're trying so hard to discourage others. So, what's to happen?

The story of your struggle should be told, yes, but in a way that'll make it command attention. Your struggle needs to be part of your brand story. Take that negative the public despise and repackage it in a way that'll be commercial and beautiful. It doesn't matter the hardships you've had in your journey, tell it in a creative manner that'll compel a following and obligation to the recipient sans them reasoning against it.

You know that your success story is a big representative of truths, but do work its narrative as a transitive thrust of hardships you've encountered. I wrote this article post our brand story exercise that we were working on with my team at our new unit, ddwebbVoice, our UCCaaS. The concept had put us through enough to an extent that we almost lost all hope in the realization of the concept due to plurality of negativity that we encountered in its story in the pitch to an array of prospects for its financing, until we bounced into its solution to finance via a link to one of our existing partners, who fell instantly in love with the story and helped us to together formulate a nice compelling proposition to our targets.

In conclusion: do come with your brand story, but, let it not be a fable, and if be, not entirely. With ours, I'm glad we were lucky to be able to creatively transform a non-attraction into one authentic offence that's infested with honest integration of reality. The same can be a case possible with yours if be patient and persistent in your untold truths to be tellable as a selling point to an investor. I believe in your story and if worked on can be turned into a unique selling angle. It's your truth, it won't be hard to tell in sell, so, just go ahead and give us that, your untold truth...dp

[1] by KgeleLeso

[The first portfolio to build]

The road to riches is full of heavy hurdles to pass for your success. But then, once in that state of breakthrough, there's still a challenge, and that's maintaining your position. A win for success brings with a big responsibility that's even bigger than the road to riches. Think of entitlement from family and friends, hats in hands by those you know or those whom got told by your family and friends that you have the means to help, taxman after your hard earned money they helped you not with, thugs targeting you and your family for random.

In the midst of all this there's a lot still to learn in order to keep the growth paddled and being safe. Successful people have a lot on their plates and none care to know about their struggles progression hating or jealousy. Success comes with many stories about you, with which mostly are designed to dent your family and public image, of which costly at times to undo or clear your name from. Success comes with many motivated enemies who choose to be silent, so as to retain cover in their mission to pull you down.

With so many agents of doom working double shifts against you, you can't be in that illusion that prayer alone'll help you in fighting the flock, you need a shield to block the tides with. It's sad hearing from some who made it misleading others and setting them up for failure. With God yes we all know it's possible, and but in real life impossible with him alone and those gullible enough will keep raising their hands to receive unfortunately whilst their counterparts are putting measures to succeed in place. Learn to know what's vital for you from the morning of your struggle and you're well to come back with a different verse to quote for your fellow countrymen.

In conclusion: surprise, surprise! Success is reached with an array of arsenals in the process. You truly need a portfolio built for your success from the word go. Let your portfolio be strengthened by your clear convergence of convictions. Your first portfolio should be of plans on your strategies for breaking the mold of entry barriers. And yes, prayer may form part of the range, but not as your stronghold coz you'll be left behind if not let belief in self carry you through together with a vast array of weaponry like consultations affordability means prior to commencing, affording research methodologies, being compliance ready, learning the etiquette and ways of the target industry, navigated opportunity attacks, and any other related component.

Trust you me, those successful didn't go in blindly into it, doing so is entrapment on its own, so, refrain from such practice of no note. Building the first portfolio for your success the best thing you'll thank self for in future. Stop listening to the truth hinders that snooker your moves by glittery that flatter your soul without watering it. Water your soul self, it's your primary responsibility...dp