Two Blacks Don’t Make White.

Peter Drucker emphasized the importance of being able to manage ourselves in the present world where the career paths companies offer or make available to their employees are not as fulfilling as the careers employees can build by preparing themselves to opportunities.

Companies try to avoid hiring celebrity leaders and prefer leaders who come from inside because they know that great companies have their leadership come from inside. Highly compensated executives don’t necessarily transform the company from mediocre to great.

When starting your business you should answer first who is going to be on the bus and later think of what they will be doing. Joining together people of big mediocrities never make one great team. A good team often focuses on what not to do rather on what to do to become successful. Being able to say “no” is the team that implements and executes a strategy that knows what to stop doing.

The same thing with technology and information systems. You will never get the right workload by simply adopting and employing technology. All what technology does is accelerate business but it cannot cause the business to happen. Technology cannot explore new opportunities or new challenges to take.

Decisions that lead to building a great company don’t come on their own are not expected to happen speedily. There are transformations and transitions that the company, the employees and executives should go through that translate into a revolutionary leap in results and not in the level of executives or technology hired to do the job.

What pulls you forward toward improvement, comes with the desire to grow and to make an impact on the community you are in. Transitioning into leadership position should not come from a desire to escape or the result of being bored from the current position. Because in transitioning there is a trade-off and therefore there should be different possibilities that you should evaluate to be able to make the right choice.

You should expect to make a rapid change during transition because transitioning into leadership position that makes an impact is not a function of circumstances, but rather it matters of conscientiousness and conscious choice.