Sunday, August 2, 2009

What it means to take initiative

Taking initiative is Courage to take challenges beyond the perview of our day to day work. Doing day to day work is business as usual. Taking initative is geving the best to what you are good at outside your day to day work. For example, if you are a good mucisian, you can take initative to build a music brand in the organization.Every individual has his own unique strong points. If every one take concious decision to take initative to explore best in self and there by contribute to others, the power of organization to scale new heights will be enormous.

There are some thumb rule while taking initives

1. Under no circumstance , you should drop the initative
2. No reason for backing out can stand before you, if you are strong like a rock.
3. Your descipline will only make others feel that the initative is rock solid.
4. Take it for granted that, your commitment to the initative will be time tested
5. You commitment will also be tested by others first before they welcome the same.
6. Do your best to add value to your initative.
7. Take it for granted that there will be criticism. Combat it with the belief that you knwo the best on what people criticise- in this case the very own initative.
8. Welcome critisism with an open heart, weed out the emotions and understand the core message, analyze if there is any key takeaway for you, do the mitigation, give the feedback
7. Believe that your initative will be a huge success
8. Believe that like minded people will slowly start accepting you as a leader and will start following you.

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