Leadership is about focused effort, not making Jacks of all trades…
Leadership is about getting people focused on their strengths in order to accomplish the organizational goals and objectives.
The leader who tries to make everyone capable of doing every job will fail over time. the reason for this is because when you try to make everyone masters of everything, your organization will become one of finger pointers.
This will cause people to become frustrated because their focus will be diffused and not concentrated.
The key is to get a variety of people who have different strengths and then have the people focus their strengths to the best of their abilities.
As the saying goes the Jack of all trades is master of none. And if you build your organization with a Jack of all trades… well you know what will happen.
The key to leadership is the ability to organize your personnel and resources in manner to accomplish your goals and objectives in a cost effective way that utilizes the full strengths and imagination of your people.
To keep your people engaged, they need to be working in an area that utilizes their full potential through their strengths. When you force your people out of their area of strength and into a situation where they are forced to work in an area of weakness, they will burn out and their attitude will become poor.
Even if a person wants to become good in an area of weakness, they will only get to a mediocre ability there at best.
Their fullest potential is in their area of strength. This is where the true leverage will come into play.
Leadership is the ability to focus your people and resources in such a manner that the fullest potential is being leveraged.
Here’s to Your LifetoSuccess,
John Clark, LifetoSuccess.com
