Discover the key to great leadership hidden in some of the oldest stories known to man - a 7 minute read.
If you are someone who is leading a team, how often do you find yourself inundated with information, or pressed for time, or surrounded by risk? Do you feel overwhelmed when there is a lack of clarity in how to approach a critical issue?
We are living in a time of unprecedented changes in lifestyle, work patterns, and geopolitical events. There are pandemics and wars raging and this has changed even how we greet people, where we meet our friends.
Do you find yourself trying to figure out how to navigate through these changes and make progress in the middle of chaos?
Do you feel like everyone looks up to you for answers, yet you feel alone as the one who makes the toughest decisions without much of a playbook.
The buck stops with you and all gains can be wiped out by a single mistake.
“As a manager, you aren’t sure what you’re supposed to do and how how’re supposed to do it."
Unfortunately, there is no playbook for leaders. To weather a crisis, most of the time, you have to come up with your strategies? But there are a few principles of leadership that you can draw inspiration from.
Let me tell you about a system I call the “Magi Star” for a good reason.
There Is A Secret
...hidden in some of the oldest stories known to man.
I am not religious myself and my intention is not to evangelize. But from a purely human perspective, think about that man, Moses.
Think about how he was able to lead his people to the promised land, despite an angry Pharaoh with his army hot in his heels.
Or think about how the Magi were inspired to follow a single Star, in a sky already full of a thousand twinkling stars, for a hundred miles and more, to find what they were looking for.
Have you wondered?
Can you be a Moses to your people?
The secret to visionary leadership across the centuries has been that no matter how difficult the present maybe, and no matter how dangerous the journey is, if the vision is compelling enough and there is faith in it, it is possible for people to bear willingly almost any amount of pain on the way.
This is the key.
It is this simple truth about humans which is the key to great leadership!
The truth is that in times of crisis, for people to forget their immediate hardships, they need a vision of a "promised land" they can truly believe in... and they must have a reason to trust that there is a way of getting to that "promised land”!
What they need in their life is the equivalent of a "Magi's Star" or a "promised land"!
Something larger than themselves that they believe in.
A Compelling Vision.
But, there is a bit of science to it.
You can be the greatest manager in the world, but that wont do you a bit of good if you cannot get your team to buy in to your vision.
But the clearer and simpler the vision is, the more portable it is and the easier people can understand it and believe in it.
And the easier it is for them to spread it. And make it viral.
And there is nothing in this world that is more powerful than a vision that becomes VIRAL!
For this is how the Berlin Wall came tumbling down at the end of the last Cold War.
Or for that matter, how the Beatles became famous. It all started with a vision!
But first,
You need to simplify the vision to make it portable.
So that it can evolve into something viral.
But how do you simplify the vision? How do you turn it into something compelling and portable? What process can you use to do this consistently?
You have to hold the vision in your eyes.
Give it form.
Chisel away at it.
Prune it.
Distill the essence of it.
To make it much purer and stronger than before.
Until it goes on to inspire and persuade millions of people - your team today and your future customers tomorrow.
The more you brainstorm with your team, the more you give shape to your vision.
And the more your team see themselves as having contributed towards your vision, the more faith they will have in it.
And when you have set up a process to do this regularly, you have taken the first steps towards building a GREAT team.
A team that believes in themselves, and rallies around a compelling vision, with faith in the roadmap they sketch together.
And I can promise you this….
When you finally have a team that believes in your vision, they will figure things out for you on a day-to-day basis. Far more effectively without you needing to push them. They will chase their managers around to solve your problems. Your investors will chase you to give you money to realize your vision which is now also THEIR vision. And you will no longer spend sleepless nights.
The Magi Star System
The Magi Star is based on three pillars.
The vision of the "promised land”.
A roadmap for how to get there.
And a process by which you and your team regularly brainstorm on your vision and the roadmap.
If you get these right, then all your long-term problems will disappear today, tomorrow, or a month or quarter from now.
You can achieve results a lot quicker this way, than if you tried the other way around. The other way is to make small tactical optimizations first, but when you find that these don’t really work, you will have to go come back to the WHYs of your current situation, and start all over again. This other way leads to pain and doesn't work.
You can start implementing the “Magi Star” from today.
And you can do this without any tech and see wonders in your life immediately. But to really compound the effectiveness of the system, wouldn't it be great to use a proven application to build teams using this fresh new approach?!
If this is something that sounds good to you, you will really enjoy this software application I have created, The Toot App.
The Toot App will help you implement this proven method, the “Magi Star” system, for yourself and your team. So you can turn around a team struggling with low morale, and transform them into an army of heroes.
The Toot App is a suite of 5 different brainstorming tools rolled into one product. So you can brainstorm with your team in 5 different ways. Not just 1 way of brainstorming like other SaaS products. So that with a clearer roadmap, you can eliminate overwhelm. And find clarity immediately.
The Toot App Will Help You Give Form To Your Vision And Get Your Team To Buy Into Your Vision
If you would like to know more about how you can build a Rock Star team that will help you achieve your vision, you can try The Toot App.
The Toot App is an entirely new and exciting way to:
create a compelling vision and a roadmap together with your team,
build trust and belief in your journey together,
lay the foundation of a strong company culture.
and by doing all the above, build you a great team.
Its a new SaaS app that works on the cloud, and if you want a motivated workforce that is fully aligned with your vision and is 100% invested in your success without you needing to chase them around to get things done..... Then This Is For You.
Ask yourself this...
What would be the value to you of a vision,
that you control,
that is SO compelling,
that it becomes "viral",
and goes on to inspire millions around the world?
Wouldn't that be PRICELESS?!
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