Lesson 8

I keep working on my $ 100 project "Fabulous Exchanges". I have continued to promote my products on OLX website and have managed to sell a few.

So far I could already sell 5 items.

One thing that stood out for me was the Leadership Style Survey, in my survey I wrote:

 One of the principles that most characterizes me is being a good listener. Even in leadership positions I like to listen to all stakeholders, reflect and then, and among all make the best decision. However, in my circle of action, the culture is very important and it pains me to see someone who does not fit in the culture, even after being taught again and again. For me it is important the union team which I belong, because that makes us strong, communication becomes better and the projects progress more smoothly.

I think that although we have a kind of leadership marked as Delegative Style or as Participative Style, there are times when we have to use the Authoritarian Style. We do not want it to be nothing dominant, because it is not the more assertive style, and  what we want is that everyone has the opportunity to grow with the leadership style we use.

The two features that stood out were the participative and the Delegative, so I think my kind of leadership is developing in order to be a Delegative leader. As a person I am determined, I like to achieve the goals I set to  myself and I like to feel the team spirit when we are working together and see the results of this team effort. Fortune magazine's quote on leadership says, “Great business leaders ought to reveal all the traits of a great lover-passion, commitment, ferocity. Nothing less will do.”

I think my kind of leadership still has a lot to improve if I want to be more like Christ, and to see people with the potential that Christ sees them.

Christ exercised his leadership with wisdom, patient, pleading, and love. He ministered to others beyond the call of duty and he cared about the freedom of his followers to choose (with the responsibility that that choice brings), and he lead by example.

As Vince Lombardi, stated  “Leadership is based on a spiritual quality, the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow.” It is a good virtue, the power to inspire, and the power to inspire others to follow something “important”.

I think this quote tell us a lot about leadership , as it says that leadership is “the power to inspire others to follow something “important”.

I want to be that kind of leader. The leader that Leo C. Rosten wrote about  “I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” The gospel teaches is that we are special and we have attributes divine to develop in this earth. It is a process during this life and the next life to become like our leader, our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.”

About the Acton Hero: Ken Solot, I toke some notes “One of the values ​​that he brought from his childhood, he was transmitted by his parents taught him that all people are special and responsible. He took this lesson to his adult life and his professional career.

Ken Kolot spoke about the importance of realizing that, as a business that owner you are, you are working with special people, who have their own qualities and assets, and that they comes with these assets to you.

The biggest question that this entrepreneur does in every business, and which I can take advantage for my future professional life, is to ask "Who cares?", "Why?" or "Who are these people?" in all every new or existing enterprise business to be done. You have to ask yourself what is the problem you are solving for your customer.

One of the things Ken emphasized is that it is important to have empathy to understand the needs of the clients and then offer means to improve the life of that client or the client's community.”