Manager or Leader?

Manager or Leader?

This question has always been a topic in countless managerial book. In summary, lots of manager are not seen as a leader and this cause an internal fraction among the company or organization.

Manager is someone  holding the status quo. Someone with the position given by superiors. Managers do the things right so that the company/organization do the things right. Meanwhile, Leaders might not have the position and might not have direct access to the superiors, however Leaders have influence over peer and subordinates. Leaders might not do the things right, but Leader do the Right Things.

Inevitably the presence of leader and manager can be destructive upon the work dynamic, since Mangers and Leaders tend to have different perspective. Fractions will be establish upon different grounds. Managers stick to the rules and regulations. Leaders create their own rule and spread the influence.

So would you be a Manager or a Leader? I would say you must become both!

In my country Indonesia, we have an excellent example of how these two roles are played. The Partnership between Jokowi and Ahok in Jakarta is without saying one of the best ever. Jokowi is current Governor of Jakarta (and soon to be our President) and Ahok is his deputy. The way I see this is that Jokowi appears as the leader, who stands for the people and share the aspiration, hope and vision. Jokowi do the right things by giving hope. While Ahok maintain the balance by playing the bad guy, who do the things right. Ahok do all the dirty work of scolding incompetent staff and balance the internal management. Nonetheless, they create a beautiful partnership. So the roles of leader and manager must co-exist!

Managers do the things right. Leaders do the right things.

Be Both and you are right!

Recca

@roninsleader

Rules

Rules. Wherever, whoever and whenever we are rules are something we will always stumble upon. It is there the very moment we are born. Be it the hospital, be it our own house and early when we start going to school, we always meet rules. It goes on and on and on, until we go to college and later on at work.

Some say rules are make meant to be broken, while other say the opposite. I personally agree and believe that rules are mostly old habits that people are afraid to break. Most rules are made out of circumstances and so as the circumstance differs so shall the rules.

However, it is not so secret that those who ignore the rules, those who think beyond the rules are often marked as outlaws, weirdo, disaster, wicked and whatever the ruler (whoever have power at their time, be it emperor, king, queen, president, general or whoever). That is exactly why we have a period of time well-known as the dark ages, where everything is so dark,so full of terror and so forth.

Nevertheless, we all must learn the rules! Learn, learn and learn some more so that we know them so well that the odds be in our favor.

The Ordinary follow Rules,
while the Extraordinary are usually
Followed by Rules

Recca
@roninsleader

Be Selfish+!

While most people think that being selfish is a "bad" thing, here's what Basketball Legend Michael Jordan say
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

This is amazing! I couldn't agree more. I mean come on the world have enough people pretending to put other need, while they are busy doing their own things. Politics, Economics, Society, you name it.

On SuperTeen Bootcamp, a program I'm involved in, Ernest taught us about some principles and one of the is "I Help Myself, I Help Others" #STBC
And that's the truth! If You don't help yourself, you are limited in helping others.

Sacrificing your time and dreams for other people is NOT the Best way to help others. We can always help people, but there are many ways, we should find those ways that did not sacrifice our time and dreams.

Time to Time: Ask yourself  these question:
1. what you really want to do for yourself
2. if you are totally free, what would you be doing at this very moment?

It’s totally fine to put yourself first, if you don't, who else will?

So Be Selfish+! Help yourself then only expand by helping others!  #PositiveSelfish #RL

 Recca Li @roninsleader

I.D. Card?

I. D card.
Everyone at some point of time get asked the question:
"Could you please show your I.D. Card?"

It is one of the very thing we all have.
The card itself varies on different forms, student card, member card, national identity card, driving license, passport and son. So what?

Well here's the deal.
I. D. Card [id card] can be understood as "An identity document is any document which may be used to verify aspects of a person's personal identity". (ask uncle google or whatever)

But ladies and gentleman I honestly never understand someone's personal identity from their id card. I mean yeah I know your name, where you live, when you're born, your religion and so on but that doesn't mean I know you! That doesn't make anyone know you (perhaps that makes one a stalker, but still not a classy one). Who we are can never be described by a single card. So how do you describe yourself?

Yes! That comes down to the very question I want to ask you.

Who are you?

Recca
@roninsleader

The One

Everyone have this "The One" thing! The One? What is this about? A special one person? The one thing to do? The thing you do coz you live only once? A book? A movie? A whatever stuff cross on Recca's mind?

Yeah, again everyone everywhere got this One Thing, the one thing we all seek in life. Be it something to do, someone to be, something to have,  a dream to realize, a goal to reach, a business to build, a fear to overcome, a person to love, you name it!

The worst thing that can happen is that we lost track of the "One". The One thing you seek in this point of time. Can this one thing change? Sure! But we always have another One to replace it.

My Mentor Ernest Wong taught me that we always have direction in life, if you don't. Someone will give us their direction. Our Parents, our teachers, our friends, our girl/boy friend and whoever it is you met on your journey.

Whatever you are doing, wherever you are going, have faith. have conviction. There are lots of stuff that can be your One thing, I don't know what yours is, but I will continue to share and hopefully we all find ours.

We all have our stories we like, the one thing we want, the thing that really matters, the one we want to make the most of. what's yours?

You only need "One", discover it

Recca
@roninsleader

Happy!

Everyone want to be happy! Don't you?
Happy is one of the most common answer if we ask someone what do you want.
There can be a lot of way to express it (dramatically  or not):
A. I just want us to be happy! B. All I want is your happiness! C. I just want to be Happy blablabla and so on.Hence ladies and gentleman, a lot fall to the trap.

In truth, you don't want to be happy.  You don't want to simply be pleasured or satisfied.
It won't last for long. What You wanted is Happiness!!

Hap·pi·ness [hap-ee-nis] means the quality or state of being happy.
Happiness! A quality or state of being happy,
happy with quality in such a state that it flows on your blood, in your life.
So ask yourself! Your TRUE self, what would really make you happy?
What is your True Happiness?

I once make this painful decision to leave a state of being happy,
because I know that I have to be better to truly earn happiness.
because at some point in life you might find..

The thing that is almost the thing that you want but it's not quite

Recca
@roninsleader

Difficult People

"What is the best way to handle difficult people?"

Wow interesting question. Yeah well we always have people trying to be smart and give us all those advice of how to influence them, to understand them, be patience and stuff. (you know all that & I'm not telling you). Well yes we should give people chance, I agree to that point, but what if all else doesn't work?

If all else doesn't work, You name it!
Ask yourself, do you really need this person?
Can you do it without this person?
Is this person worth wasting your time?
What else can I do differently?

Still! If all else doesn't work, here's what I do,
Say I press delete on my mind and lets pretend we never met.
I give them the infamous
"You're dead to me look"

Well knowing so, don't just go around and kill everyone kay!
I personally only give this to couple of super annoying people,
but bare in mind, never do it on people you loved.
Never regret something that once make you smile.

Recca
@roninsleader

Wanderlust

We all travel time to time, whether its just around our neighborhood, another island, oversea and wherever we can be. We walk, we drive, we go place to place. Maybe we went simply for holiday, or study, or work, or we got lost(!?) Whatever it is we shall realize that life itself is a journey.

The question is: "how far would you go?"
Everyone have their own journey, few years ago I make a decision. I choose to be better than to simply be happy, a tough choice, hence totally worth it! Some pains, some sacrifice are worth doing, because when the time come, you know that the price is right.

So Move! Don't just do what you are obliged to do, get out, get lost, get a Trip of a lifetime

Like how these guys, make a memorable journey out of theirs,
so shall we make our own memories and our own journey.

MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.

Recca
@roninsleader

Got Bored?

Have you ever pay attention to a safety flight procedure?
Most people find it BORING (including me)
But check this out! This is How Virgin Air
get 6 Million People To Watch A Flight Safety Video



In Fact, this video use 14 different dance styles and the dancers includes of 10 So You Think You Can Dance alumni, 2 former Olympians and 1 American Idol finalist. What a dedication!

So ladies and gentlemen, whatever we do, we can always get bored.
However we can always choose do things differently.
Make it exiting & put the element of fun.

Simple things can be exiting, if you really want to do it.
and this is what I  called
Making a difference

Recca L.
@roninsleader

No Idea

Last week, I went on a trip, I have no idea and no actual plan to go, but it gave me some spiritual enlightenment. Day after day, I met lots of people. I met those who thought they got things figured out. Some actually did figure out about their lives and is on the right track. Some seems to lose hope and end up getting wasted. Well a lot has happened and most of the time we have no idea whats going on!

Funnily, as I read some of my blogs, they reminded me of things I use to hold on. I don't know who read this. I have no idea, how you get here, who you are and what you expect. I pray that somehow I can help and simply become better. Feel free to come back and contact me.

We might have no idea, whats ahead of us, but we can always learn from the past. One thing that I am very certain of is that:

 People don't change, they just grow for better or worse.

Recca L.

@roninsleader