If You Take No Risks, You'll Never Do Anything Great!

Great leaders cannot be controlled by trying to avoid making any mistakes or being criticized. Rather, they always realize that unless someone is willing to take on some risk, he will never accomplish anything of any meaning. In fact, the only individual who never will do anything risky is someone who does nothing.
However, after full consideration, it must be understood that doing nothing is perhaps the riskiest and most potentially dangerous action of all. True leadership requires: 1. Having the courage of one's convictions and be guided by them; 2. Absolute focus and commitment; 3. There is never a perfect time to do anything, and you never have the luxury of waiting for things to happen rather than making them happen; and, 4. Learn, think, analyze, and then do it! (Take action)

1. You are not a real leader if you are guided by your fears, rather than being led by what's right and wrong, what's needed and necessary, and what needs to be done to assure that what you do is the best present course to getting where you hope to be.

2. Real leaders cannot partially commit, and must take care to pay attention to details, plan and prepare thoroughly and effectively, commit to one's plan, focus on the goals that you hope to achieve and feel are needed, and doing all you can to transform your dreams to meaningful goals, and then using one's goals as a guide to create an action plan. True focus must be an absolute, and must be principled and in accordance with the mission of an orgnization.

3. Perhaps the most essential lesson that any leader must learn and understand is that there is never a perfect or ideal time to do anything. One may not wait for the luxury of waiting for that to happen, but must analyze the needs and situations, and develop a plan and take action in a timely manner. Some not ready for prime time pseudo - leaders are stifled by their fears, when what is needed is to understand the risks, but understand that there are always ramifications of either taking action or avoiding doing so. In the vast majority of instances, procrastination is the single biggest "cancer" to achieving to one's potential.

4. True leaders are constantly training, learning from what they are taught and experience in order to develop needed expertise, know what it means to think and doing so, comprehensively analyzing, and then doing whatever is needed in a proactive and impactful manner.


Great leaders must be willing to take risks. However, following an intelligent and focused approach translates to actual risk management and the best and most meaningful leadership.