Resourcefulness

What competence is most crucial for today’s leader? Networking? Yes, it opens lots of doors. Communication? Definitely, it won’t be possible to interact without it. Negotiation? Influencing? Emotional intelligence?

What about resourcefulness? No, we can delegate, we don’t need that. I’m not against delegating, vice versa, doing it professionally rises efficiency to next level. But isn’t resourcefulness one of characteristic which makes you able to do it.

I would put resourcefulness to top priority and would work on improving it in all live areas.

A player

Recently I read a book “Topgrading” who added me thoughts on career development and some new goals. It’s really interesting how A player should perform and how organizations can influence that people are A players in their positions (for example by not promoting top engineer to managerial position if he would be just mediocre there). At the same time even if you have a potential to be A player manager, but organization is driven by B players it’s tough to get there you could deliver biggest value.

I would recommend this book for everyone who are interested in developing themselves, it might open your eyes and change the way you think.