Achieving Your Potential

Questions for the person in the Mirror

I recently read an excellent book by Robert Kaplan S, entitled "What to ask the person in the mirror: Key issues to become a more effective leader and achieve your potential."

The book immediately became my favorite on leadership, and I think it will become a classic on the subject. It is full of advice on which an action may be taken to help us grow, to overcome our weaknesses and become more effective leaders.

To clarify, this is not the same Robert S Kaplan who co-created the Balanced Scorecard method with David P Norton. By coincidence, both Kaplans are professors at Harvard Business School.

In the introduction of his book, Kaplan states: "Good leadership is not about having all the answers - it is, more often, about having the courage to ask the critical questions." The book challenges the reader to reflect on him or herself, and this requires courage and honesty. The fact is that the higher you climb in the hierarchy and the more senior you become as an executive, the more challenging it becomes to maintain an accurate and realistic self-perception.

Kaplan provides a valuable framework, including seven vital areas for inquiry:

--1. Vision and priorities

Critical questions:

-Have you developed a clear vision for your enterprise?

-Have you identified three to five key priorities to achieve that vision?

-Do you actively communicate this vision and its associated key priorities to your organisation?

I used to hold presentations about vision and strategy in my previous company, and I always showed a chart that read: "If you don't know where you are going, any path will take you there." Kaplan's message in the book is similar: "If you know where you are going, it's a lot easier to get there."

The development of a vision is a crucial process in a company, and it should not involve only the chief executive.

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It is said that the time of your birth you have an awareness of your potential and an idea of ​​who you are supposed to be. In the next moment, this awareness disappears into the unconscious where it becomes our task to discover in our lives.

Discover your predominant need that must be met for you to feel safe and achieve your potential. All too often, we remain unaware of what our built-in needs are and, as a result, they go unmet. We are then at the mercy of our unconscious impulses, emotions and habits of mind. We end up repeating longstanding patterns that get in the way of achieving our goals or creating the life of happiness and satisfaction we want.

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