Skills corporate leaders need
So you want to lead in the business world. Are you prepared? How do you know if you qualify for this type of interaction with so many different types of personalities, diffused interests and demanding schedules? You don't actually know but if you are prone to take risks and then think your way out, are able to grasp ideas and problem solve where others are still in the dark, and finally, if you like to proceed into the unknown daily, then chances are you would make a good corporate leader, possibly a great one.
Harvard Business Schoolhas several programs available for those with varying leadership needs. One of their programs, Leadership Best Practices, an on campus program, is pricey. It costs $11,250 dollars and its time frame is March, 24-28.(2014) That sounds like an excellent idea but if you, already out of work, yet still dreaming of landing that dream job of leading a bunch of others into the future world of big business, are out of work, down to your last $100,00, it is not for you. Yet reading about it gives you incentive. What can you do?
You can fall back on your past experiences and recall the mistakes you made in your work, the mistakes you believe others made that shut the business down and then formulate a plan to learn all you can about the business world. Start small, you're old enough to learn from the past but young enough to head out in new directions. Money certainly talks, and no doubt each word at the expensive Harvard Business School will cost a fortune, but you're out on your own equipped only with your past failures and your renewed hopes for the future.
First list your requirements for corporate leadership. But be sure you understand the ins and outs of corporate leadership and what it entails. Make a list of different types of corporations and check each of them out online. You might call this 'home schooling' for the future business leader. After that, tackle each one and learn what skills are needed and are most advantageous for leaders in this type business. Read, read and read.
Each magazine is loaded with information but each publication that deals with the world of buying and selling has an angle on the market. Think of each as having a different personality, and indeed that's true because each is modeled on a specific facet of the corporate world. There may be a few that attempts to give an overall picture, but the best learning magazines dedicate themselves to particulars, as each corporation does. And these are modeled on the different living personalities of the leaders. Get this idea firmly understood and set out to learn what makes each magazine a success. Learn also what cause it to go bankrupt.
Business Magazinesis an online site loaded with 85 different types of publications for the business world:As a lesson in corporate leadership know how check out several of these and see if you can detect their niche in the business world. Bloomberg Business Week is a general business magazine that surveys the world of business; The Economist is more directed to the overall picture of what moves the world of commerce; Fortune is about what its title implies, how to make a fortune, but more; Wired is all about online business with somewhat of a quirky tangle; INC stands for something and it's your business to find out if it's Incorporated, International confusion, or Increase your business knowledge or a tad of each and much more.
After you have loaded your brain with knowledge of how the corporate world works, seek out those you know who are involved in this kind of world and get a sampling of their work-a-day world. Be prepared to be surprised. You will find different types of leaders with differing leadership styles. But whatever you do, don't change your basic values concerning what you believe the moneyed world should and could be. You're out to direct the future and not to settle in with today's over-hype concerning simply buying and selling.
And in summing up your "homeschooling" efforts at learning the corporate world, you don't want to get too far removed from the one needing what is being sold. That's the world of finance in a nutshell. Without those in need of insurance, food on the table. information storage, medical care, ways to travel, and whatever, there would be no need for whatever it is they are selling. Be yourself, thank God for your privileges, and move on toward the work you were meant to do.
