Leading beyond your title sometimes means: 15

1. Waking up early;
2. Start doing things that your colleagues are waiting to do once s/he’ll have that ‘position’;
3. Showing up when you don’t feel like showing up;
4. Put in great efforts to deliver even if you don’t feel like making that delivery;
5. Uncrowding yourself – for example, you choose to wear that ‘red’ shirt when everyone else is wearing blue for a specific purpose;
6. Initiating a dialogue that inevitably involves confrontation;
7. Asking (even silly looking) questions, again and again;
8. Choosing to be agile in most occasions – inviting the ‘life’ to live at her fullest with you;
9. Choosing not to be agile for a specific occasion – sometimes, only sometimes planning matters more than embracing uncertainties;
10. Embracing realities – For example, if you don’t know that you have a disease, you’re not going to think about its cure;
11. Being absolutely merciless in questioning the path you have taken;
12. Being tough on yourself for your own actions, especially while keeping promises;
13. Listening carefully and acknowledging what you have understood;
14. Choosing only words that convey specifics. For example, “I want to earn 10 million dollars by December 31^st, 2015” is much better than “I want to be financially well in next 5 years”;
15. Making a wrong start – more important is to start and less important is right or wrong.

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