Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple...

Leadership Is Actually Quite Simple...

"Leadership? Simple! Inspire and unite your team with your vision and charisma; then expedite goal attainment while minimizing conflict." - Douglas Castle

The only tools that you require (and you can get them at almost any hardware store or delicatessen) are these:

1. A vision, and the ability to communicate it to others (and sometimes to refresh their memories) so that it is highly visible and "comes to life" in their hearts as well as in their heads.

2. The ability to demonstrate how the achievement of your vision benefits each and all of the members of the team, and how each team member will be making an important and emotionally-satisfying contribution for the benefit of all.

3. The ability to draw a plan which includes input from each member as well as a vital role to be played on the part of each member. In the planning process, you must serve as a moderator and a mediator (while maintaining focus and intensity) so that the plan produced will be the product of every team member's work.

4. The energy to drive the entire team toward the objective, and to consistently keep them on course even when they are fatigued, distracted or disillusioned, or while they are in conflict with the team or with individual members within the team.

5. The wisdom of King Solomon to make decisions which resolve conflicts without creating lasting bitterness, the inclination toward sabotage of the objective, and which minimize ongoing rivalries or enmity between any two parties, or between any one member and the entire group. You must be a warrior, a vigilant observer of subtle shifts in mood and momentum, and you must be perceived as a fair and reasonable judge and resolver of disputes.

Good luck to all of my friends and colleagues who aspire to be great leaders. Being a great leader requires more sensitivity, skill and balance than walking a greased, gossamer-thin tightrope without a net underneath you. You may be a hero, but you may be hated just as easily. You will be judged not only on your ability to get the team to the objective -- you will be judged on every decision that you make along the incremental process to goal attainment. You will be terribly lonely. You will feel infinitely responsible, but you will always be the ultimate source of blame. It will age you, and it will stretch you beyond any limits which you thought you had - and then stretch you further, until you fit the challenge.

The rewards will ultimately be quiet and introspective - you will have the knowledge, deep within you, of knowing that you lead the charge to achieve something that chnaged the world, or some aspect of it, for the better of the people for whom you felt responsible.

Leaders are necessary, but being in a position of leadership is an appalling responsibility for a mortal.

My only advice to you is this: Do not be a leader unless something needs to be done and you are consumed by the desire to get it done. It is a calling and a compulsion, much more than an opportunity or a social or business position. On occasion, I have thought of leadership as a punishment or exercise necessary in order for you, as a person, to evolve into somone or something better.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
Chairman and Director of Strategic Planning
TNNWC Group, LLC
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Message to My Friends and Readers

I will be out of town from 24th January, and returning on 28th January. During this interval, I will not be accessing or responding to any emails, telephone messages or posting any material to blogs or social media. I look forward to being in touch with you soon after my return.

All the best, Respectfully,

Douglas Castle



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International Leadership - The New Paradigm - 01.14.2011

International Leadership - The New Paradigm at 14th January, 2011

Article from The Internationalist Page (http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com) written by author Douglas Castle, Chairman of TNNWC Group, LLC.

Dear Friends, Futurists, and Internationalists:

During the course of these past three years, the entire world has seen and experienced an economic tsunami, a crisis of trust and faith in the most venerable institutions, and a growing divide between those few powerful persons in positions of authority and those many persons who constitute the masses.

The masses have universally become disenfranchised and distrustful of those in positions of authority and power. The members of the suffering masses are feeling either helpless or restless -- but few are trustful or happy with the status quo.

There is a new tie that binds all of those citizens of The Internationalist Community, The Global Village and the Human species -- we are all sharing a crisis of confidence, and a lack of qualified, trustworthy leaders with vision and true integrity.

There is a high probability that some of those currently in power, those currently insulated and ensconsed within the protective palaces which they have built by the sweat, toil and suffering of the barely-subsisting majority will be displaced within these next one to three years.

New leaders will no longer be able to depend upon sovereignty, patriotism, empty rhetoric and hate-mongering to unite the masses behind them and to keep their power. The Internet, the entropic economy and the mysterious changes in the dynamics of the weather have made those safeguards of bygone times a virtual (pun intended) impossibility.

New leaders, in addition to technological mastery and expert advice, will be required to exhibit qualities which the older, dying "guardians by divine right" have never had to bring to the fore.

New Leadership will have to demonstrate a genuine alignment with the populations for whom they are responsible, as well as those same populations to whom they will now have to be accountable. New leaders will have to serve their followers instead of merely stealing votes and money from them based upon half-truths and blind faith.

There will still be a use for weaponry and shows of military strength -- but these will now have to be tempered with a heartfelt passion for their followers, as well as for the causes, organizations and nations which these leaders will lead. There will be a need for empathy, as well as a desire to dominate and control.

New leaders will be tasked with not only leading, but with caring for their constitutents, adherents and followers. The metaphorical muscle of the heart, long neglected but often abused, will have to be strong in these leaders. In sum:

"The Greatest Leaders Must Have As Deep A Love For Their Followers As They Do For Their Sacred Ideals And Objectives." -- Douglas Castle

My borrowed time here has led me to believe that Love can be a strength as well as a weakness. Do not underestimate its power and role in enlightened leadership. -- DC


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RE: The Thomas Kern Affair - Giving Thanks and Praise - We Need To give more of it to those special few who are highly deserving. [Douglas Castle]

RE: The Thomas Kern Affair - Giving Thanks and Praise - We need to give more of it to those special few who are highly deserving.

Dear Colleagues, Members, Friends, and World-At Large:

Very few people give thanks and praise to the people who are most important to them. That is a sad thing.

Just as sadly, too many people either a) do not feel worthy of praise, or b) are not doing work or demonstrating any of the attributes that would make them praiseworthy... some people pretend (or are actually conditioned) not to really care. Praise, when sincere and direct, is no less important than any other form of compensation. I believe it is crucial.

I wanted to take a moment to make an example of my faithful friend, colleague and the Director Of Operations and Program Compliance Officer of TNNWC Group, LLC. - Mr. Thomas C. Kern, Jr. We laughingly and lovingly refer to him (when newcomers ask us "What exactly does Thomas Kern do?") as being our own Scotty in the engine room of the U.S.S. Enterprise, of STAR TREK fame. A better question for them to ask (in order to get a shorter answer) might be: "What doesn't Thomas Kern do?"

An excerpt from a letter which I sent to Tom follows:
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Thomas:

Thank you for your never-ending diligence, perseverence, steadfastness and work ethic. We'll have to clone you. I've hired some Romanian scientists to do this --- I just might need some... er, ah..."samples" from you. .


In friendship always,


Douglas
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Visit with Thomas C. Kern on his Linked In Profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasckern

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life - Daily Burst Of Brilliance .001

2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life


Dear Friends and Worthy Opponents:

My unsolicited advice to everyone (without exceptions or exclusions), includes 2 Rules To Living A Much Better Life. Learn and follow these simple suggestions, and you will enjoy a happier, much more productive life. Fail to learn and follow these suggestions at your own peril.

1) If you have a conflict or an issue with a person, take the time to communicate with that person directly, and do not operate through agents, gossip, or third parties. Communicate your own message directly to the person with whom you have a conflict or issue, and it is likely that either a) the issue can be resolved quickly, or, b) if this is not possible, you can begin to plan for the best alternative while preparing  for the worst from the person whom you've confronted. Your most critical communications in life will be thoses that are one-to-one and direct;

2) Do not say anything to anyone which you would not want the entire world to know about, or to have attributed to you as the one who said it. Odds are that backbiting, insults and other "off-color" things which you say about someone else in "in private" will be repeated to some other party or parties at some time. When you speak, pretend that the videos are rolling, the microphones are on, and that the van parked halfway down your block is loaded with people from some secret government agency, monitoring your words and actions in the process of collecting testimony to use against you.

This is not paranoia...it is pragmatism. You can sign your own conviction, death warrant or epitaph by having your words heard or repeated to a third party in a different context. Do not be caught in a lie, or get yourself branded as a whiner, a snitch or a bigot. Two added advantages are that it is a) easiest to remember the truth and what you actually did and said, and b) you can never, ever be surprised by anyone using your own words or actions against you.

Best of all, living by these two rules will assure that you will always be thinking and speaking with sincerity, clarity and accountability.

Everything in life is "on the record."

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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