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How do you get to that solution? Yet, we often will make this too difficult and overthink it. Be like the Buddha and keep it focused and simple so that anyone can understand it. Additionally, it is perfect for the customer or anyone else who you want to articulate your vision!
The Buddha had a simple but profound purpose: To liberate all sentient beings from suffering. While his intention was not to start a major religion, his purpose was one of the foundational steps that attracted so many followers to his teachings. His purpose was simple, elegant, and meaningful — to help all sentient beings be free of suffering.
But his why was crucial to understanding this purpose. Every Buddhist knows the recorded story of the Buddha, which was filled with suffering, struggle, and transformation. His mother died after he was born, he was raised without knowing the true meaning of our reality, he experienced with his own eyes that we all suffer and die eventually, his internal struggle about being separated from his family, spending years learning from teachers who did not hold the answers he was seeking, almost dying from wrong practices, and through his own effort was able to realize the truth and the correct teaching.
In short, he encountered what we all encounter at various times and points in our lives. Yet he was determined to find a solution to this suffering. He sacrificed more than most people would have, and when he finally had the answers, he openly gave it to anyone who was willing to practice them due to his compassion as a Buddha.
His entire demeanor and appearance were completely transformed by his enlightenment. Not as a supernatural being, but because he had eliminated ignorance, greed, and hatred, which all of us have and express numerous times during our lives. This allowed him to live and act in a way that was in harmony not just with the world, but with himself. This is important because that came across to most everyone he encountered.
This mass murderer turned into one of the most peaceful, famous, and influential monks of the Buddha. Your purpose needs to be linked to your why. Your why is going to reveal your purpose, and your passion behind it. With that, your followers, team, citizens, etc. When the Buddha became enlightened, he was struck with a profound insight that all sentient beings can also be a Buddha and realize their natural state, known as Nirvana , but they prevent themselves from achieving this.
The mission part of the leadership rules makes this a reality. This was the blueprint or map that anyone could follow to achieve the vision, which was the result of the purpose. As the leader, you must help create that mission plan.
How do you get to the vision? But there can be division, arguments, lack of knowledge, or other factors that influence how successful that will be.
The Buddha was a true leader in the fact that he created or modified rules as necessary to help the team the monastics achieve the vision. Do nothing that is unwholesome, Do all that is wholesome, Purify the mind. This is the teaching of all the Buddhas. In the beginning, the Buddha had no followers, and no infrastructure. By the end, he had thousands of followers spanning an entire region, support from rulers, retreats, and support of many laypersons.
It is likely that you may start off in the same circumstances and can follow the similar path of the Buddha. The first people the Buddha talked to was five of his former followers. Yet, there was something about the Buddha — his demeanor — that made them listen. This was how the first five followers of the Buddha came into being.
You do not need to gain a million Twitter or Instagram followers, or be featured in some big magazine or website. Instead, start where you are and proceed from there. Even if you were a billionaire, which may result in nothing if nobody supports you.
This is evident by the millionaires and billionaires who have run for President of the United State of America over the years, and used their own money, who failed to win or secure a nomination. I have placed vision as third on this list for a reason.
No more, no less. What is the biggest issue with most leaders? If you look at some of the leaders you may look up to, they may have had many products, but only one vision. A vision is not a product, instead it is where they see all their efforts focused. You can have multiple products, such as Steve Jobs with Apple and Bill Gates with Microsoft, but both men were focused on specific goals. Steve Jobs vision was to build beautiful and elegant devices.
The Buddha was a well-educated and intelligent man who could have focused on numerous things. But he only focused on one topic: Dukkha Suffering. When questioned about numerous things he could have answered due to his knowledge, he remained silent. This was because they would not help in any way with his purpose, mission, and vision.
This can be an infinite destination that has no end. For example, say your vision is to have the clean water in your city and you are the head of the water district. Of course, making water drinkable is not a one-time event, but continuous. Yet everyone will understand this vision, and the purpose behind it. The mission gives them the roadmap to ensure that vision comes to fruition every day.
Marquet, U. Navy Retired. The fourth leadership lesson is: Set the Tone — Be a leader that is impeccable with your words, actions, trust, and emancipation, which in turn helps turns followers into leaders that want to achieve the mission. Captain L. David Marquet is one of the most influential leaders to me. He learned this firsthand when assigned the worst performing submarine in the U. Not only are no leaders created for the future, but Captain Marquest realized it was extremely dangerous.
One of the sailors on the submarine followed his order in the typical leader-follower mindset which was impossible to achieve on that type of submarine. It was that, and several other instances, which shaped his transformation to intent based leadership. The Buddha was the ultimate authority figure. He was the teacher and spiritual leader.
Yet, he was practicing intent based leadership well before it became known today. The Buddha started out with just five monks who he previously practiced with. Since he left them, they were initially skeptical of him and saw him as someone who abandoned their way.
How did he instantly win them over? His purpose was solid, he was able to articulate the mission, and provided a sharp vision. But from there, he had to build his team in this case, monastics. Leaders need to constantly set the tone because they are held at higher standards, are there to calm their followers during any crisis, and need to put their team out front and support them.
Further, a team is only as good as the amount of empowerment they get. For many leaders, they are just managers. True empowerment means trusting your team really trusting them and empowering them with responsibility. A leader is there for their team, and to protect them so they can succeed. He advocates for emancipation , which is different. This means a person inherently has inherent power already, so let them be the leader.
While this sounds scary to most management, it means using Intent Based Leadership. This is leadership as communication, not coercion, and Gautama was similarly open with his own followers, encouraging them to see him as a teacher with authority but no power. He urged the members of his monastic community to live harmoniously within clear collective structures, but refused to appoint a successor to lead the community after his death.
Instead he told them to rely on the truth they found in his teachings, not on rites, dogmas or institutions. Perhaps the lesson is that offering really compelling leadership means truly learning to be ourselves. Your email address will not be published.
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