Abstract: The importance of motivation in leadership can not be denied. But most leaders overlook a critical component of motivation, the human dream. The article describes what dreams really mean in the realm of leadership.
Leadership is motivational or stumbling in the dark. The best leaders do not order people to do a job, the best leaders motivate people to want to do the job.
The problem is that the vast majority of managers do not deepen the profound aspects of human motivation and thus are not able to effectively motivate people.
Drill down through goals and objectives and the aspirations and ambitions and press the foundation of motivation, the dream. Many leaders fail to heed.
Dreams are not goals and objectives. The objectives are the result toward which efforts are directed. The realization of a dream that may contain targets, which may be milestones on the road to dreams. But the achievement of a goal does not necessarily achieve a dream.
For example, Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a goal." Or "I have a goal." The power of his speech was "I have a dream".
Dreams are not aspirations and ambitions. Aspirations and ambitions are strong desires to achieve something. King said he had no aspiration or ambition that ".... one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal. '"He said he had a dream.
If you are a leader speaks to people's aspirations and ambitions, we are talking about something that motivates them, yes, but not necessarily draw the heartwood of their motivation.
After all, you may aspire or be ambitious to achieve a dream. But the aspiration and ambition may also be connected to things of lesser importance than a dream.
A dream embraces our most cherished desires. It embodies our very identity. We often do not feel fulfilled as human beings until we realize our dreams.
If leaders are avoiding people's dreams, if leaders are simply setting goals (as important as goals are), they miss the best opportunity to help those people to act to achieve great results burning.
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence that "governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed," he was writing about a dream. Not a European government at that time was a democracy. There were few true democracies in the West after the fall of Athenian democracy more than two million years ago. But Jefferson's dream of people motivated to act. In reality, that dream motivates people to act in the world today.
Understanding people's dreams they lead. People do not tell you what a dream until you trust. They do not trust until you feel that you can help them achieve their dreams. The acquisition of this understanding can cement a deep emotional bond between you.
Dreams are not fantasies. Go to the mountains can be a dream. Standing on the mountain can be a dream. On the other hand, having the mountain come to us is a fantasy. Dreams can be realized, fantasies can not. Focus on dreams, on what is objectively possible, not on fantasies.
Dreams are positive, uplifting. The Old English word "dream" means "joy, music and noise-making. But that positive, inspirational quality can have negative effects on an organization.
Negative dreams can damage an organization. For example, the union / management issues are often particularly inflammatory because of conflicting dreams, both sides view the other as the enemy. " Your audience wants to return to the "good old days" can be a bad dream. Only a leader of faith can help people reshape their dreams.
Most people have a dream for their life and work. Even people in abject circumstances, such as prisons and concentration camps, the dream of a life beyond meeting their current circumstances. If they lose their dreams, they lose an essential quality of their humanity.
People will not be transformed by his leadership, if you have a low opinion of low expectations for their dream and / or are convinced that one can not help them achieve that dream.
Many people do not consciously realize this dream. But this does not mean that dreams are influenced by their subconscious. A dream subconscious motivating people to act without their clearly understand why they act. They lead people to be fully aware of the content and meaning of their dream or risk having your organization's activities be impeded by a dimly perceived yet no-less-powerful dream.
Every dream has a price. One thing is to think that. It's another thing to do. Know the price you pay people to achieve their dream. Make him understand the price.
As a leader, the dream with people! Without our engagement wagons to the stars, the cars and the stars lose their true meaning in our lives.
Dreams give meaning and purpose of the emotion. People who think they live their dream of seeing their work as part of a higher cause and will work accordingly. In contrast, people who see their work as antithetical to their dream, can see that work as oppressive, and even their jobs.
Dreams are the ultimate reality. Dream graffiti on a wall in Paris during the student rebellion of 1968 said: "Be realistic: do the impossible!"
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