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Your life will be more effective and happier when you come to realize that it's perfectly okay to choose the option--lead, follower, or get out of the way--that best suits your needs and desires. Your career success is not defined by what someone else expects of you. Genuine career success is what you define it to be. If you are not performing at your best in the role that suits you, you are in fact a liability to yourself and the organization that employs you. Get right with your world: make a decision and act on it today and everyday to reach the career goals you set for yourself. If you opt to be a leader, be prepared to pay the price of commitment and effort the role demands: courage and self confidence; the ability to assemble and utilize resources; discipline to stay focused on objectives; the ability to teach and motivate people; and willingness to constantly learn. If you are not ready to step up to meet the requirements of leadership, you are programming yourself for limited achievements and disappointments. At the same time, if you elect to be a follower, embrace that role with all that it entails and be a good follower: carry out assignments to the very best of your abilities; support your leader by executing his directions; and suggest ways to improve the performances of your leader and the team. To do otherwise is to muddy the waters for everybody. Leaders can't lead without good followers. Whatever you do, for gosh sake, make a choice, set career goals and get going on your career path. So long as you are vacillating between leading and following, you are fouling the nest for the entire flock. Do everybody--yourself included--a favor: lead, follow, or get out of the way. Your career success depends on it.
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