Today’s business leaders or knowledge professionals are always
fighting to be trap in the “God Complex”, in other words, using the term
"God Complex" might just be referring to "Over inflated Ego"
which drives "selective deafness" and "inability to admit not
rightness" causing an outcome of "blindness in rational decision
making", so how to get out of such trap?
1. Be
inclusive; Never let team members or stakeholders out. To listen &
observe, and provide an outsider's opinion synthesized from a variety of
industries and companies. Every time you propose a solution, be sure you have
taken feedback from all parties involve, it will help to get the adoption of
what you are suggesting to your customers.
2. Learn to
listen before you recommend. Free to ask all the "dumb
questions,” understanding what the other people are thinking will help you
tailor your message to their needs and the solution to their problems. You must
focus in the other people, stop thinking about yourself and pay attention to
the details. Introspection and harsh
self-assessment are critical tools for inoculating yourself against delusions
of grandeur. Try it before you recommend. Remember that learning does not
happen from failure itself, but rather from analyzing the failure, making a
change, and then trying again, once you have the right solution you are in the
position to investigate why it work.
3. You have
to have an appetite for change. Set
your bar even higher and challenge yourself to do something outside your
comfort zone. God complex will
seriously limit your growth and when the learning stops, you are not adding new skills and value
stagnates. "Assertive Humility"
is a virtue that will help you ward off the influence of God complex. Love
challenges, be fearless in the battles of the day, and have a tough, tough skin
because the ingrown and complacency will try to tear you down and your
proponents are using you as plausible deniability, should failure occur.
4. Use best
practices as reference not as final solution. Best practices are a good
template, however they are based on the past, a past that could not be valid any
more, particularly in a world that demands flexibility and fast adaptation to
new realities. Don’t be slave of best
practices; better use them as a starting point to reach new and better
solutions.
5. A great
sense of self, humor and belief born from experience need to be utilized
every day in our roles. There is always an element of self belief and self
advertising that we need to display. If we are good at what we do we need to
push our agenda. And it is our responsibility to shake things up because we are
different and the way the organization is currently working NEEDS to change and
WE make that change. Take the Challenger approach instead of doing everything being
told to do, creativity matters.
6. "Master"
the art of influence- people skills whatever you want to call it, it works
and reduces risk. In those unusual situations where you have a team of non-risk
takers, then obviously you will have to make the decisions for the team. Too
many decisions in this type of situation will only create more work and risk
for you, so the challenge is determining how to get the team involved and
achieving success will broaden your mastery of "people skills".
7. Keep open
mind with people. One person cannot know everything so you surround
yourself with talented people. Also, some people deserve 2nd chances after a
mistake. The human factor is the biggest risk and the greatest challenge to
manage and "people skills" is the hardest skill to master
Balance confidence with humility,
aptitude with attitude, transform leadership from "black & white, cut & dry,
factual" style to "buy in, rainbow theme, collaboration,
team ownership".
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