“My job is to not be easy on people.
My job is to make them better. My job is to pull things together from different
parts of the company and clear the ways and get the resources for the key
projects. And to take these great people we have and to push them and make them
even better, coming up with more aggressive visions of how it could be.” ― Steve
Jobs
People find it challenging to align
their resources with opportunities. At times, they may have resources without
opportunities; or opportunities without resources. This is a constant
leadership challenge globally. Hence, it is essential to keep resources ready
and explore opportunities simultaneously. It helps leaders achieve their
leadership effectiveness quickly. However,
it is easier said than done.
As a leader, you must always explore
opportunities although you may not have appropriate resources because nobody
knows when opportunities knock your doors. When the opportunities knock your
doors, you must raise resources accordingly. If you don’t have adequate
resources, you must create resources accordingly. If you find that resources
cannot be created, then align the available resources with the available
opportunities to create compatibility and synergy to achieve leadership success.
Never sit idle without building resources and exploring opportunities.
When resources and opportunities are
available, leaders frequently find it challenging to execute them due to
several bottlenecks including misalignment. This misalignment arises due to the
round peg in a square hole or a square peg in a round hole. Hence, leaders must
exercise their patience and work with perseverance to ensure alignment to
execute their tasks effectively.
Peter Drucker once remarked, “The
pertinent question is not how to do things right — but how to find the right
things to do, and to concentrate resources and efforts on them.” Leadership is a continuous process, and to
achieve leadership success, leaders must constantly create resources and
explore opportunities. Remember, opportunities don’t come when you want but you
must rise to the occasion when opportunities knock your doors.
"No leader can possibly have all
the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges
of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The
leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge
them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them
accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes
their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and
you change how you run a company." ― Steve Miller, Group Managing
Director, Royal Dutch/Shell.
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