Leader and stories:

Till today, I have attended many formal and informal talks and read various article of leaders. Every time it fascinate me the way leaders narrate the story of there journey of achievement, they never say that this is a journey off success, the very reason is success is achieved at the end of journey. But for the leaders the journey is never ending. They never quit, they always transforms themselves to newer and higher level to for higher achievement with higher passion.

I will take an example of a leader who was a Managing directory of Indian industry. Now he is a president of Asia, Today he has more passion than I have seen 8 years ago, the same excitement but more broadened expanded vision, earlier he use talk about making achievement in India, and today he talks about making achievement in Asia. The canvas is bigger and so the footprints are. At this age when people are retired and making visits to temple, he is expanding the organization in Asia and visiting locations and factories. He is establishing new era of achievement at newer level.

He never said I am successful, It just like he has a habit to unsatisfying on own scale of achievement.
He always say or asks : Are we doing good?
Again his answer is : Pretty good !
But again he question himself : Could have been done better?
And the answer again comes from him : definitely better”

How and why this happens.
The only reason I can say is, never satisfying lust of higher achievement. There is always zest of doing things better that makes leader a perfect achiever by raising the bar higher.

It is not easy for leader to accept his achievement of even failures. There are small battles of loose and win. However at the end leader will achieve more than his vision, which is not respect to his goal but the experience and maturity he acquire from the project.

One important thing about Leaders story is they talk heart-to-heart. They candidly shares the win and lose. The leader always tells a story of only truth. No touch of fictive or imitation.
The story has plot (Vision & goal setting) drama,(Mission), characters (objectives), evils (Wastes) and finally like every story ‘The Truth prevails.’ This tells the achievement on basis of correct/incorrect steps taken during the projects.

There might be failures in each project like a tragedy story but the leader focuses on the reasons of failure and the analysis helps him and his predecessor. I have come across lot many leaders sharing the lose candidly, but they never blame the team,not the system. They takes it as own responsibly.

That helps us to understand them. And also about ‘what is not to be done when you are having a passion of to be a leader’.

In my view the storytelling from leaders helps not only for the organizational leadership but also for personal leadership.

But the important question is, how we are keen about listening and practicing from them ?

Each one must judge his own story on the small success and failures measurement. but on the experiments of achievements and the maturity you get for newer level.

The reason is “ There is no success or the failure cos, You don't choose the day you enter the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference."