CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS: It Has Been Said “Be a Leader, Not a Follower.”

Creating and Managing Effective Teams with David Muraco

The Bottom Line:

• Leaders are not born they are made

• Leadership is a choice you must make in order to be one.

I have spent most of my life with the idea that you need to be a leader not a follower in order to get the things you want out of life. We have talked in past articles about what being a leader is, and that it is a choice not something you are born with. This time I really want to pull apart the sentence “Be a leader, not a follower.” As this New Year begins I want to challenge you to be a follower more now than ever before. You see the meaning we give words make them stronger or weaker than they really are. For most of you when you see the sentence, I challenge you to be a follower, start to think I must be crazy. By definition leader means a person who rules or guides or inspires others and follower means a person who accepts the leadership of another. But if you look deeper you can find even more then what is just on the surface.

Another definition for leadership is a way which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task and for follower it is someone who travels behind or pursues another. The surface of being a leader, follower or life in general is just that the surface. With the New Year comes new challenges and with that should come new ways to approach these challenges. I know where you’re at, I do. You feel scared, afraid, unsure, and most of all stuck. You must go past the surface and find what is lying inside all of us, the follower.

Follow your Heart

Follow your Passion

Follow your Purpose

Follow your Soul

Follow your True Love

For that will make you a Leader. Give yourself permission to dream and whatever that dream is follow it. You cannot lead a single person until you lead yourself and the best way to do that is to follow your heart. It may lead you down a path of hurt and challenges, but remember it is only on the surface. To dig down deep you must follow the path and take all the challenges in order to reap all of the glory. I ask you now in these uncertain times more than ever before follow. Follow your dreams for they will lead you to where ever it is you want to go.

Remember, be positive, be real and live your life In The Zone.


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CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS: Critical Component to Time Management?

Creating and Managing Effective Teams with David Muraco

“You see... the Bottom Line is simply this”

• That clock doesn’t care that you’re scared.


• It doesn’t care how you see yourself (too old or too young)


• It doesn’t care that you don’t make the money you want to make.

From the moment we are born the race is on. If you pause long enough and listen you can even hear it! The clock on the wall waits for no one. It doesn’t care how old you are, what color your skin is or even how intelligent you are. It keeps on ticking day in and day out.

Time waits for no one! So many times I hear Top Level Executives and CEO’s say I have no time for me, or no time to get the things done I need to. The truth is they have no time because it is not important enough for them to make the time. Of all things outside of our control, time is the one thing we can control, if we choose to. What is time? Whatever we want it to be. Time for a bike ride in the company of our kids; maybe time to work ON your business long after you closed the doors for the day. Time is one of the most precious things we have in this world. More often than not we treat it like garbage, something that can be thrown away over and over and over again. But if we look at it, for what it truly is, (a precious resource) then I am sure we would use it a lot more wisely. Study after study show that lack of discipline of time management is the number one cause for lack of growth in organizations. The point to this is simple. Regardless of how long you have been in business, you have all the time you want when you realize that you must empower your team to strive for effective time management. Make good use of this precious resource because one night you will go to bed and when you wake up, it will be 30 years later. Then your question will not be 'I don’t have enough time?' Your question will be 'Where did all the time go?'

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CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS: What is the Difference Between Talent and Desire?

Creating and Managing Effective Teams with David Muraco, CPCC

What is the difference between Talent and Desire?

I have posed this question to top level executives as well as some of the top coaches in the area and the answers vary from person to person. Some will say that you can't teach talent. Others will say there is no replacing desire. Truth be told I believe they are all right.

You see, you can have the most talented player or executive in the world, but with no desire for their team to win or to make the people around them better, it is a waste of time, money and energy. On the other hand, you can have all the desire you want, but with little or no talent for the sport or company, again it will be a wasted effort. The greatest accomplishments in the world have been done when desire drives talent. When desire forges with a particular talent magical things happen. In the sporting world we have people like Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, and Muhammad Ali. In the business world we have Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, and Tony Robbins. These men took their greatest desires and applied them with their greatest talents, and each one in their own way changed their particular industry forever.

By definition the words are worlds apart:

• Talent - a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity.


• Desire - feel or have a desire for; want strongly.

The learning portion of this article is simply this: what we define to be true and what is true are not one in the same. Desire cannot live without some kind of talent to escort it. Talent could not eat without desire to feed it. They are two entities that are on a collision course just waiting for us to slam them together. Whether you are 16, 36, 66 or older, find your talent and before you know it, desire will be knocking at your door. When that happens hold on for the ride of your life.

Remember be positive, be real, and live your life In The Zone.

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CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS: Team Building: Attitude Reflects Your Altitude in Life

Creating and Managing Effective Teams with David Muraco, CPCC

When do you think it happened to us? When we were children who dreamed of bigger things in life? Or was it when we were in college and someone told us it can't be done? When do you think it was we gave up on the attitude that we can accomplish anything in life or business?

You see, our attitudes are a direct result of how far our team can fly in business. Some of us swallow the idea, that's just the way it is. While others ask what else can be done? Now I am not talking about living a life blind to what is around us, but what do we want to surround ourselves with? Saying positive things and doing positive things are a small portion of what really reflects our attitude in life and business.

It may be a cliche to say this, but we learn more from our challenges than our triumphs. The reason being is that the challenges in team building are a direct test of our attitude.

How easy is it to have a great attitude when it seems like everything is going according to plan? The part that really gives you the flight needed to reach the highest level of altitude in business is your attitude in times of struggle.

Now I am sure we can go back and look at the struggles in our business lives and say that's the way it was, or I can't live in the past. True; you cannot live in the past but you sure can learn a lot from it. No different than a baby getting burned on a stove understands that if they do that again they will get hurt. Now does that baby grow up and never cook or go near a stove again? Of course not!

So why is it that the same idea may happen in another area of our business? For example: you call your potential customer and they are totally not interested and say, "No!"

Will you get burned? No! Why is that then, more often than not the last time you call that potential client again? Those 2 different examples mean the same exact thing in life. While the idea may seem far fetched the learning is identical.

The same principle needs to be applied to our attitude today. By getting burned by that stove, did we learn a lesson? Yes! Was it a challenge? Yes! Did we over come it? Of course!

Now take this learning lesson and apply it to any challenge you may be facing today in your business and understand you may get burned and it may even hurt. But you control your attitude, just like you controlled your attitude over getting burned by that stove as a child. How? By going back to that stove again and again until your attitude reflects your altitude.

Now is the time. Today is the day to soar.

Remember be positive, be real and live your life In The Zone.



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CREATING AND MANAGING EFFECTIVE TEAMS: What is the difference between Talent and Desire?

Creating and Managing Effective Teams with David Muraco, CPCC

I have posed this question to top level executives as well as some of the top coaches in the area and the answers vary from person to person. Some will say that you can't teach talent. Others will say there is no replacing desire. Truth be told I believe they are all right.

You see, you can have the most talented player or executive in the world, but with no desire for their team to win or to make the people around them better it is a waste of time, money and energy. On they other had you can have all the desire you want, but with little or no talent for the sport or company, again it will be a wasted effort. The greatest accomplishments in the world have been done when desire drives talent. When desire forges with a particular talent magical things happen. In the sporting world we have people like Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Muhammad Ali and in the business world we have Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Henry Ford, Tony Robbins. These men took their greatest desires and applied them with their greatest talents, and each one in their own way changed there particular industry forever.

By definition the words are worlds apart:

• Talent - a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity.

• Desire - feel or have a desire for; want strongly.

The learning portion of this article is simply this, what we define to be true and what is true are not one in the same. Desire can not live without some kind of talent to escort it. Talent could not eat without desire to feed it. They are two entities that are on a collision course just waiting for us to slam them together. Whether you are 16, 36, 66 or older find your talent and before you know it desire will be knocking at your door. When that happens hold on for the ride of your life.

Remember be positive, be real, and live your life In The Zone.

For more information, please visit David's TNNW Bio.

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