06/03/2023
BEING AN OWNER DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN YOU ARE A LEADER: 4 HABITS OF A PERSON WHO DO BIG THINGS
When you start a business, you own it. But being a boss is not the same as being a leader. Leaders need a head full of vision, knowledge, skills, professional experience, having futuristic vision, steadfastly going towards the vision. Leaders need a heart big enough to accommodate different people, different personalities and talents, and love without discriminating. Leaders need decisiveness, once decided, chosen, committed to work until the end, not wavering, not distracted, not walking and turning around. Leaders know how to judge talented people, stay away from petty people, play tricks to win fame.
Now, you can check if you are doing the following 4 things that are the habits of leaders. If not, then it's probably time to start practicing, but only if you really want to be a leader!
1. Let's go of the day-to-day: Management should be in charge of the day-to-day operations and administration. The leader's goal is not to rush in and fix the problem so that he or she may feel good about themselves for being able to manage a thousand different things well every day. Do you know what leaders prioritize? It is to lay a solid foundation for companies to grow, to plan for the future and prepare resources now, to invest in technology and innovate in order for enterprises to integrate and flourish sustainably in the future. If we are still concerned with going into fight here and there, listening to petty chatter accomplishing large deals, listening to one end of the other, then we are simply acting, not leading.
2. Connect the dots:
Leaders must be able to search, read, analyze, and discover the link between data and strategy, from data to strategy, and from strategy to data management architecture. It is difficult to become a leader in the twenty-first century if you are unfamiliar with technology and cannot read or understand data insights to manage and build the organization. So, it is to be a blind fortune-teller, not to be a leader.
3. Make time to think a priority: make time to think and think even more : Still the classic quote of Abraham Lincoln "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my axe". Those who do not spend time contemplating, thinking, and brainstorming about objectives, objects, and ways of doing things before jumping in and fighting will injure themselves and others. That is being a soldier for your company rather than a leader.
4. Be proactive : Always work for the future in a proactive manner. If you remain worrying about today's, this week's, or this month's business instead of extinguishing the chance of a fire for many years to come, you will be trapped in the incident's vicious loop and will never be able to return to your actively shaping-the-future self. So you're supposed to be a coolie for your own company, not a leader.
Being an owner is very easy. You just need to register to open a company, doesn’t matter large or small, it can be owned. But as a leader, you need to learn, you need to practice, you need to persistently develop yourself every day. Ownership is not necessarily leadership
