Everyday, I'm posting a message on Twitter. That message will serve as the first (in bold) sentence for short written posts I have below.
When cooperation has been completely replaced by competition, we won’t make progress as we are too busy undermining others to appear further ahead.
Whether if it’s at a school or at a workplace, we have seen competition dominating the culture. We all strive to be ahead of others and being among the top ten or top five is what we aim for. We have no time for those we perceive as weak because we don’t see them as a threat to our rise in rank or power.
When those struggling come to us for help, some of us will ignore them because we are too busy remaining at the top. We don’t want to invest time in people we don’t believe have anything to offer in return. Instead, we’d rather stay away from them as they’ll drag us down. In our dog eat dog world, we cannot afford to waste time on things that don’t benefit us.
Yet, we have forgotten about cooperation. Cooperation is equally important as competition. While competition often sees us going forward alone, cooperation sees a group of people working towards a common goal. Every person only has 24 hours in a day so a group of people naturally has more time than a single person each day.
Nowadays, we rarely cooperate with others. We either tackle a challenge alone or we use other people to get further ahead. If we can just fight our urge to take all the credit and work with others to accomplish feats that are only possible with cooperation, then we’d be amazed by how far we can go and the word impossible no longer exists.
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Leaders emphasis cooperation over competition because cooperation sees a strong team reach for the stars instead of individuals learning how to fly higher than others.
Many of us want to be leaders and a simple search online can give us the skills and abilities necessary to be a leader. Yet, there are certain things we cannot learn from reading but, instead, must experience in life. One of those things is cooperation which is vastly undervalued in our society today whether if it’s school or workplace.
At school, we are often comparing grades to see who’s doing better in a course. It’s often rather harsh as those with higher grades feel pride while those struggling feel insignificant with lower self-esteem. The same can be said about many workplaces where those who do well get promotions while the other people make no progress and hate their job as a result.
With the competition environment, schools and workplaces generally don’t produce leaders. When we think about leaders, we all have different standards but, essentially, they are the people we want to follow. Do we want to follow a person who brings out the best of everyone through cooperation or do we want to follow a person who promote harsh competition between us and our peers?
For most of us, the ideal work environment is one where we can tap into our full potential and we can trust our coworkers. We don’t have to worry about one of our coworkers taking credit for our idea and get a promotion as a result. A leader who promotes cooperation does exactly that because, instead of individuals reaching new heights, the group work together to reach the stars an individual can never hope to reach alone.
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Many of us want to be a leader. To do so, we must be willing to make more sacrifices than other people and tackle uncertainty others would rather avoid.
Many of us like the idea of us being a leader with a team backing us in our vision of accomplishing great feats. Yet, we are merely dreaming if that’s all we do because leadership skills require lots of honing and mastering. There are no born leaders, though some do have a slight head start over others, so we all have the potential to become a leader.
Leaders stand out because they do the seemingly impossible. They do the most incredible things and actually make a difference in people’s lives. The incredible things they achieve don’t happen by luck. They require lots of hard work and lots of sacrifices. The sacrifices are often so numerous that ordinary people back away when they have to make an important choice in their lives.
Leaders must also be willing to tackle uncertainty because they must lead the way into the unknown. We don’t need leaders to show us how to stay within our comfort zone. We need leaders who dare to walk the paths no one has taken before so others can follow them. For many of us, fighting the fear when faced with uncertainty will be our biggest obstacle in becoming a leader.
The path to becoming a leader is available for every single one of us. We mustn’t listen to the critics who tell us that leaders are born because those people have given up on being a leader themselves. When we believe that we can be a leader, we must also put in the work. In our society, we need more leaders to bring positive change for those who are struggling in life.
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Nobody can make you a leader because leadership isn’t a title or a position. It’s a trait we develop over years, if not decades, and it’s available to everyone.
We sadly mistaken certain titles or positions as a sign of someone being a leader. When we work, we deserve to be rewarded if we do an excellent job. We should be promoted if we show more promise than all of our other coworkers and upper management believes in our abilities. When we become a supervisor, manager or whatever position above what we had before, we feel a sense of accomplishment.
Yet, we haven’t really changed due to the promotion. If we weren’t a leader before the promotion, what part of the promotion turns us into one? More pay? More responsibilities? More power? Out of these, only more responsibilities can help us become a leader but even this couldn’t turn us overnight into a leader other people want to follow.
So often, we get caught up by the titles and positions that we fail to realize that leaders can start development even at the bottom of one’s company. We don’t have to be a manager to start developing the key skills of a leader. Ideally, we’ll have a solid foundation as a leader before we become a manager so we can further improve upon the foundation now that we have people to manage.
I have worked at numerous places and all those places have managers. Yet, I never felt the need to follow them or go above and beyond in my tasks. I was never motivated to strive for something greater because my good deeds go unnoticed while my mistakes are always spotted and I get lectures emphasizing my failures. In these situations, I see managers but I don’t see leaders.
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We need more leaders because too many people are going through life without ever tapping into their potential and those are gifts we won’t be getting back.
Everyone possesses incredible potential whether they believe it or not but few people are truly tapping into them. Many of us are surrounded by so much negativity that we constantly doubt our own ability. We never think we are good enough and, when challenges come knocking on our door, we’d rather retreat to our comfort zone than tackling it head on.
This is why we need leaders to help guide people. When we think about leaders, we often think about the entrepreneurs of big companies or high ranking military officers. Yet, even people like the teachers at our schools can be leaders and their impact on a person’s growth can be more significant given the lives they can touch.
When we are kids or teenagers, we are still very much unsure what we want to do when we grow up. If we were raised in a negative environment, then we will enter adulthood with a very negative mindset. If we have more teachers serving as leaders, then our experiences at school can result in a very different outcome and more people will unlock their full potential.
With teachers, the biggest challenges are the funding and political correctness. Both are limiting factors that stop them from doing what’s needed to inspire youths to take active steps in improving their lives. After all, so many of us waste so much time when we were young as we could’ve accomplished so much more with all that free time.
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We can all agree that education is important and yet too many schools are underfunded. How do we expect teachers to do their job when they face these challenges?
Education is vital to the growth of children and teenagers because they spend so much time at school. Schools should provide them with lots of opportunities to learn and grow so that, when they become adults, they have the tools to decide their own future whether if it’s going to post-secondary, a trade school or go straight to work.
There are schools where classrooms are overcrowded. A teacher is expected to manage these large classes but we still expect them to be equally efficient as they would be with smaller classes. This is no different from the expectation that a manager should do equally well between managing ten people and thirty people without any additional help.
As the ratio of student to teacher grows, we either see teachers burned out from doing what he or she could for every student or focusing on a small group and neglecting the rest. Either way, the majority of students suffer since they aren’t getting the attention they need to learn how they can improve themselves and, instead, feel unwanted and useless when they do poorly.
These aren’t the sort of environments we want our kids to grow up in. It isn’t fair for them to suffer because schools don’t get enough funding to, at the very least, provide them with tools to decide their own future. The end result for many students is the idea that they are too dumb or are failures which tend to remain in their minds for the rest of their lives.
_____
We deny future generations of opportunities by eliminating school programs and courses due to poor funding. Do the children really need more obstacles in life?
We can understand that life is filled with many obstacles and, more often than not, those obstacles help us grow and improve. If everything good in life was simply handed to us, we’d never appreciate them and feel grateful of the situation we’re in. However, we don’t need more obstacles in the paths of future generations as they try to find their purpose in life.
Being a child has its blessings but it’s not always easy. We all have vastly different experiences with some children living in families struggling with poverty. Poverty already makes it difficult for these children to participate in afterschool programs or courses that can potentially teach them valuable skills they will need moving forward.
When schools are underfunded, programs and courses are cut resulting in the children being harmed. It’s one thing for their families to struggle in getting into the programs but it’s a whole different battle when such programs no longer exist. Without such opportunities early on, many of our children simply lack the development needed to tackle their future challenges.
By neglecting the development of our children and youths, we are paying the price with so many potentials lost. We see young adults who enter society unprepared for the cruel world we live in. They want to be much more but the various obstacles in their path simply overwhelmed them to a point where moving forward was no longer possible.
_____
When cooperation has been completely replaced by competition, we won’t make progress as we are too busy undermining others to appear further ahead.
Whether if it’s at a school or at a workplace, we have seen competition dominating the culture. We all strive to be ahead of others and being among the top ten or top five is what we aim for. We have no time for those we perceive as weak because we don’t see them as a threat to our rise in rank or power.
When those struggling come to us for help, some of us will ignore them because we are too busy remaining at the top. We don’t want to invest time in people we don’t believe have anything to offer in return. Instead, we’d rather stay away from them as they’ll drag us down. In our dog eat dog world, we cannot afford to waste time on things that don’t benefit us.
Yet, we have forgotten about cooperation. Cooperation is equally important as competition. While competition often sees us going forward alone, cooperation sees a group of people working towards a common goal. Every person only has 24 hours in a day so a group of people naturally has more time than a single person each day.
Nowadays, we rarely cooperate with others. We either tackle a challenge alone or we use other people to get further ahead. If we can just fight our urge to take all the credit and work with others to accomplish feats that are only possible with cooperation, then we’d be amazed by how far we can go and the word impossible no longer exists.
_____
Leaders emphasis cooperation over competition because cooperation sees a strong team reach for the stars instead of individuals learning how to fly higher than others.
Many of us want to be leaders and a simple search online can give us the skills and abilities necessary to be a leader. Yet, there are certain things we cannot learn from reading but, instead, must experience in life. One of those things is cooperation which is vastly undervalued in our society today whether if it’s school or workplace.
At school, we are often comparing grades to see who’s doing better in a course. It’s often rather harsh as those with higher grades feel pride while those struggling feel insignificant with lower self-esteem. The same can be said about many workplaces where those who do well get promotions while the other people make no progress and hate their job as a result.
With the competition environment, schools and workplaces generally don’t produce leaders. When we think about leaders, we all have different standards but, essentially, they are the people we want to follow. Do we want to follow a person who brings out the best of everyone through cooperation or do we want to follow a person who promote harsh competition between us and our peers?
For most of us, the ideal work environment is one where we can tap into our full potential and we can trust our coworkers. We don’t have to worry about one of our coworkers taking credit for our idea and get a promotion as a result. A leader who promotes cooperation does exactly that because, instead of individuals reaching new heights, the group work together to reach the stars an individual can never hope to reach alone.
_____
Many of us want to be a leader. To do so, we must be willing to make more sacrifices than other people and tackle uncertainty others would rather avoid.
Many of us like the idea of us being a leader with a team backing us in our vision of accomplishing great feats. Yet, we are merely dreaming if that’s all we do because leadership skills require lots of honing and mastering. There are no born leaders, though some do have a slight head start over others, so we all have the potential to become a leader.
Leaders stand out because they do the seemingly impossible. They do the most incredible things and actually make a difference in people’s lives. The incredible things they achieve don’t happen by luck. They require lots of hard work and lots of sacrifices. The sacrifices are often so numerous that ordinary people back away when they have to make an important choice in their lives.
Leaders must also be willing to tackle uncertainty because they must lead the way into the unknown. We don’t need leaders to show us how to stay within our comfort zone. We need leaders who dare to walk the paths no one has taken before so others can follow them. For many of us, fighting the fear when faced with uncertainty will be our biggest obstacle in becoming a leader.
The path to becoming a leader is available for every single one of us. We mustn’t listen to the critics who tell us that leaders are born because those people have given up on being a leader themselves. When we believe that we can be a leader, we must also put in the work. In our society, we need more leaders to bring positive change for those who are struggling in life.
_____
Nobody can make you a leader because leadership isn’t a title or a position. It’s a trait we develop over years, if not decades, and it’s available to everyone.
We sadly mistaken certain titles or positions as a sign of someone being a leader. When we work, we deserve to be rewarded if we do an excellent job. We should be promoted if we show more promise than all of our other coworkers and upper management believes in our abilities. When we become a supervisor, manager or whatever position above what we had before, we feel a sense of accomplishment.
Yet, we haven’t really changed due to the promotion. If we weren’t a leader before the promotion, what part of the promotion turns us into one? More pay? More responsibilities? More power? Out of these, only more responsibilities can help us become a leader but even this couldn’t turn us overnight into a leader other people want to follow.
So often, we get caught up by the titles and positions that we fail to realize that leaders can start development even at the bottom of one’s company. We don’t have to be a manager to start developing the key skills of a leader. Ideally, we’ll have a solid foundation as a leader before we become a manager so we can further improve upon the foundation now that we have people to manage.
I have worked at numerous places and all those places have managers. Yet, I never felt the need to follow them or go above and beyond in my tasks. I was never motivated to strive for something greater because my good deeds go unnoticed while my mistakes are always spotted and I get lectures emphasizing my failures. In these situations, I see managers but I don’t see leaders.
_____
We need more leaders because too many people are going through life without ever tapping into their potential and those are gifts we won’t be getting back.
Everyone possesses incredible potential whether they believe it or not but few people are truly tapping into them. Many of us are surrounded by so much negativity that we constantly doubt our own ability. We never think we are good enough and, when challenges come knocking on our door, we’d rather retreat to our comfort zone than tackling it head on.
This is why we need leaders to help guide people. When we think about leaders, we often think about the entrepreneurs of big companies or high ranking military officers. Yet, even people like the teachers at our schools can be leaders and their impact on a person’s growth can be more significant given the lives they can touch.
When we are kids or teenagers, we are still very much unsure what we want to do when we grow up. If we were raised in a negative environment, then we will enter adulthood with a very negative mindset. If we have more teachers serving as leaders, then our experiences at school can result in a very different outcome and more people will unlock their full potential.
With teachers, the biggest challenges are the funding and political correctness. Both are limiting factors that stop them from doing what’s needed to inspire youths to take active steps in improving their lives. After all, so many of us waste so much time when we were young as we could’ve accomplished so much more with all that free time.
_____
We can all agree that education is important and yet too many schools are underfunded. How do we expect teachers to do their job when they face these challenges?
Education is vital to the growth of children and teenagers because they spend so much time at school. Schools should provide them with lots of opportunities to learn and grow so that, when they become adults, they have the tools to decide their own future whether if it’s going to post-secondary, a trade school or go straight to work.
There are schools where classrooms are overcrowded. A teacher is expected to manage these large classes but we still expect them to be equally efficient as they would be with smaller classes. This is no different from the expectation that a manager should do equally well between managing ten people and thirty people without any additional help.
As the ratio of student to teacher grows, we either see teachers burned out from doing what he or she could for every student or focusing on a small group and neglecting the rest. Either way, the majority of students suffer since they aren’t getting the attention they need to learn how they can improve themselves and, instead, feel unwanted and useless when they do poorly.
These aren’t the sort of environments we want our kids to grow up in. It isn’t fair for them to suffer because schools don’t get enough funding to, at the very least, provide them with tools to decide their own future. The end result for many students is the idea that they are too dumb or are failures which tend to remain in their minds for the rest of their lives.
_____
We deny future generations of opportunities by eliminating school programs and courses due to poor funding. Do the children really need more obstacles in life?
We can understand that life is filled with many obstacles and, more often than not, those obstacles help us grow and improve. If everything good in life was simply handed to us, we’d never appreciate them and feel grateful of the situation we’re in. However, we don’t need more obstacles in the paths of future generations as they try to find their purpose in life.
Being a child has its blessings but it’s not always easy. We all have vastly different experiences with some children living in families struggling with poverty. Poverty already makes it difficult for these children to participate in afterschool programs or courses that can potentially teach them valuable skills they will need moving forward.
When schools are underfunded, programs and courses are cut resulting in the children being harmed. It’s one thing for their families to struggle in getting into the programs but it’s a whole different battle when such programs no longer exist. Without such opportunities early on, many of our children simply lack the development needed to tackle their future challenges.
By neglecting the development of our children and youths, we are paying the price with so many potentials lost. We see young adults who enter society unprepared for the cruel world we live in. They want to be much more but the various obstacles in their path simply overwhelmed them to a point where moving forward was no longer possible.
_____