subject: Leadership Step 3 To Success [print this page] Step 3 of the ten steps to leadership has to do with the things you need to see your plan succeed.
Leadership success step 3, ask these questions
- What Resources Do I Have?
- What Resources Do I Need?
A plan is useless if you do not have access to the resources that you need or can not obtain those resources easily. If you lack a key resource you will have to change your plan or face failure. If you plan calls for a sky hook - Your not going to get one no matter how hard you pray. The plan must also include the how; how are you going to assemble or source the resources you need. However if the resources are available then the steps to gather them, acquire them or persuade them become part of the plan Here are some things to consider when looking at resources.
1. Remember you are just one of the resources at hand. Who else can help? Do you have any mentors or advisers? What about a master mind group?
2. Is building a team a benefit or do you just need the loan of someone else s resources, temporary help or out sourcing.
3. Remember K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Stupid. Simple gets it accomplished far more easily. Look at the steps in your plan. Can a series of simpler steps take the place of a complex step?
4. Cost effectiveness? You can over do it. Yes a backhoe is good at digging a ditch, but if it's short and shallow and a laborer could dig it in an hour - why not hire the laborer instead.
5. Scrounge, borrow, buy or lease the resources you need? There may be other options as well.
6. Quality? Is it to be a quick and dirty task leading up to a bigger task or goal, or is the task at hand going to be part of your legacy? Does building a monument get you to the objective in the best way? In real life nothing is perfect; sometimes you have to ask is this level of quality good enough?
7. Don't forget to consider peoples feelings. As with many things in life we will be dealing with emotions and passions. Take a close look at the objective and your intended actions to be taken along the way. The actions you take will be judged. The way you want to be judged may influence the resources you decide to use to reach your objective.
In step 3 clearly define
- What resources do you have? and
- What resources do you need?
In step 4 we'll look at what challenges or obstacles that might come up.
