Book : Awakening the leader within you
Author : Mitesh Khatri
Publication: Jaico Publication House
The author is a trainer by profession and had the limelight
movement with fire walking session with the team. Something unbelievable – That’s how he
motivated to walk barefoot on the burning coal. This book touches on the
techniques to make sure we achieve the specific results without much of jargon's.
We are all born with infinite potential, still we can find
two kinds of people – ordinary employees working with employee mindset and
extraordinary leaders working with entrepreneur mindset. The difference is ordinary people believe that
they are just doing the job whereas the extraordinary leaders believe that they
own the organization. The diffidence is Employee
Mindset Vs Entrepreneur Mindset. A
leader always works with the entrepreneur mindset and takes ownership for the
organization. Ordinary people are less productive because they are poor time
managers; leaders are super productive because they master time management. Positive Attitude and High Energy are the
two great forces that drive Great leaders. People may or may not give up to their
desires, but hey never give up on their expectations ! Expectations are stronger than desire. High expectations gives high
energy to leaders. When things become must for human beings, it gives them
unlimited energy to achieve what they want. High expectations lead to higher
performance and higher results. The quality of life will depends on the amount
of pressure you can handle. The lack of visibility can make life really
difficult. The quality of our life
depends upon the quality of our communication skills. The source of power and energy – taking 100% responsibility
– positive or negative. Responsibility Formula is, Situation (S) + Response (R.)
= Results (Re).
Leaders have a magnetic charisma that gets them huge following.
Consistence results will be able to create the charisma. Charismatic leader keeps
commitments. Prioritization makes life
simpler and less stressful. The leadership level is determined by the trust exhibited by people. The trust bank account has two ways of depositing
and withdrawing trust; Cash = communication, cheque = commitments.
Emotional intelligence is about having the power to manage your emotions by choice. The
quality of our feelings is controlled by the quality of meanings we make. What
we feel creates action and these actions produce results. Focus refers to our thoughts and
imaginations. There are three powerful ways of changing the emotional patterns –
Meanings control feelings, physiology controls emotions and Focus control
emotions.
Beliefs are vital for tapping into our inner potential and
realizing our visions. Imagination is the power that fires our beliefs. Success is not only by chance, it is also a
science.
Value – The source of power. The source of unlimited power
is consciously working as per our highest values. Whenever we work as per our
highest values, we automatically have access to all our internal power
resources like - hard work, sincerity,
Dedication, creativity, focus, confidence, inspiration, motivation, patience,
sensitivity and abundant energy.
In each chapters the author has simple questionnaire to
create awareness on where we stand, a very simple yet effective
techniques which can easily be adopted
and implemented.
This book is a good read.
