Great Advancements

Any great ideas, inventions and innovations started with the idea. Often, those with the innovative ideas were considered dreamers, or unrealistic, or rocking the boat. However, we would have the power, if Edison succumb to the naysayers, we would not have phones if Bell was disturbed by those who do not share his vision. Do not forget that the whole PC industry might have developed much differently when IBM decided to buy Bill Gates operating system, but it simply borrowed. If Steve Jobs is a conventional thinker, imagine how different the Apple company could have evolved. Think about the incredible story of companies like Facebook, founded by daring to predict things differently. Robin Sharma wrote: "Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary."

First Have you ever been a member of the board of any kind? I remember when I joined the Board of the institution for the first time more than thirty years, and had difficulty with the status quo mentality of most of the existing board. I decided it was important for me to stand up for their ideals, and become an independent leader in the tradition of Don Quixote, but the same old, same old pseudo-leader who is actually little more than glorified do-little follower. The first few times I brought up doing something different, I was the sole supporter of my measures sixty-six among the board members. As I insisted and insisted, I often called the problem machine and unrealistic. Rather than discourage me, I redoubled my efforts and my year-end loss limits are narrowed to only about fifty to sixteen. I took a few years later began to change policies and / or modify it, though, other, of course, scurried for the credit for their innovations. Ten years later, when I moved from the area, organizations my recognition of my efforts, and I realized that my perseverance is essential to maintain and even the existence of this group.

Second Sometimes innovation simply be ready to open one's eyes and look at alternatives. Great leaders often need to innovate to achieve the desired results. Most of us are not innovations in the way that Einstein, Edison and Bell did, but on smaller scales (or at least different levels), a true leader is one who, as the late President John F. Kennedy famously said: "... see things as they are and ask why. see things as they should be, and ask why not. "This job is a true leader has the vision that results in its organization more relevant, and progress toward achieving its primary mission.

Leadership should be about constant innovation in the areas that need it, and simply tweaking the others, while at the same time maintain the necessary heritage and traditions. Are you cut out to be a true leader?

With more than 30 years of consultative sales, marketing, training, management and operations experience, Richard Brody has trained sales and marketing people in numerous industries, given hundreds of seminars, appeared as a spokesman for the company to more than 200 radio and television programs. He has negotiated, arranged and organized hundreds of adventures.