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Leadership Principles of the Warrior Series Eleven Leadership Ascendency (Part 3) by Randy Gonzalez

In a world fixated on the safe mediocrity of the status quo, easy targets of discourse,

simplistic thinking, and the relentless pursuit of get rich quick, self-help and

materialistic consumption, leadership suffers a dismal demise. In fact, there are fewer

examples than ever before. America has a leadership deficit. Any contemplation of such,

strains for valiant, heroic and forthright examples across the social spectrum.

For the few who strive, leaders must always endeavor for balance in their personal

life. By duty, discipline and consistent devotion to principles put into practice, one avoids

the distractions of a devolving culture. Such is the regression of societal obsession with

materiality, consumption and excessive gain. Leadership is a Spartan existence. That is

a notion of austere insistence on pursuing perfection beyond possession.

The conception applies to every aspect of life, as well as facing ones final departure.

Likewise, organizational life exemplifies a serious focus on the matters at hand, aside

from personal defect, or shortcomings. While many whine, some unwind the complexity

of their weaknesses and ascend to higher places. Thinking is the primacy of making

personal transitions. What is each moment worth for the sake of betterment?

What is the value of time that ends at some unknown point of finality? It is not so

much the journey, as it is who is on the quest and what he or she becomes along the way.

The family, the brotherhood-sisterhood, the authentic sense of camaraderie, works

toward harmonious interaction in the promotion of mutually inclusive goals. All

members, of whatever team, work in harmony for productive unison.

However, the majority will resist in various ways, some overtly divisive, and others

more covertly. Yet, the leader, and those who willingly follow, know there place, and

must endeavor to avoid strife with each other. Purposely, each strides to show respect,

follow necessary rules when possible, and obey the orderly necessity of interactions, in

order to protect the family organizations mission. Detractors will be watching.

Historically, from ancient times to the present, human interactions at every level of

engagement remain a difficult challenge. Warring factions will always be present in some

form or another, as dangers come from internal and external interferences. Diversions and

discordant intentions, from inadequate personalities may attack without warning.

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Leaders stay vigilant and look for signs of dissent, infiltration and adverse

compromise. Leadership encourages each to act with a sense of equality, fairness and

equity toward others. Realistic blunt honesty, openness and analytic rationality are

preferred to immature feel-good platitudes. Silly clichs, bumper sticker slogans and

simplistic psychology are counter by the value of reason over emotionalism.

The easy conjecture of facetious assertions, wrought with simple-minded analogies,

prove nothing in the end, except counterproductive digressions. In association with that

by contrast, most meetings and gatherings waste precious time. Frequent get-togethers

typically offer dissenting options for prolonged gripe sessions. Complaining, criticizing

and gripping about one thing or another seldom solves problems.

On the other hand, critical analysis through insightful and in-depth thinking, based on

reason and evidence, has greater potential. Within the conception of the whole, each must

be led to devote oneself to the service of others selflessly. Primarily, this is instigated by

more enlightened and evolved thinking processes. For the sake of these undertakings,

wisdom transcends the arrogant selfishness of biases perspectives.

To aid in this learning process, leaders must be work diligently to be competent,

assertive and demonstrate by example. They must motivate others toward individual,

group and organizational effectiveness given their respective roles and responsibilities.

The management of the organization in every extended sense is the responsibility of

everyone who functions within it. Systems work when people work.

Organizations fail when people fail to be responsible and accountable, and none can

survive for very long without leadership. Unless everyone works together toward the

harmony of the entire framework of interaction, the organization, the community and the

society will devolve. Once again, getting people to change and ascend to greater levels is

difficult. Humans are different from each other in many ways.

Diverse with a variety of wants, desires, and purposes, no one is the same as another.

We cannot expect everyone to see the world in the same way. Each is at a place where he

or she is either evolving or devolving. Individually, and in groups, or subunits, they can

be cold, calculating, and cruel. Although selfish, arrogant and counterproductive,

everyone has a unique responsibility as part of an association. Likewise, everyone ought

to be held accountable for his or her lazy, slothful and illicit performances.

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Regardless, everyone is different in his or her perspective, beliefs and particular

presence at a point in time, they are no less liable for their behaviors. Everyone is always

responsible for what they say and do, and how they treat others. There are no excuses for

misbehaviors, especially within a legitimate organizational environment. Rationalizing

inappropriate actions reflects selfish satiations for personal gain. Sometimes, part of

leadership involves leaders spending time to ensure the equity of responsibility, and

especially accountability for everyone in a particular setting.

Leaders recognize that a key aspect of competent leadership includes effective

management of people with a keenly balanced insight into human behavior. It requires

an understanding and wisdom for the fundamental nature of a committed stewardship of

people and resources. At the same time, we must be constantly vigilant to the fact that an

evil nature lurks within each person. Slothful, mediocre and apathetic people constantly

look for ways to infect the organization with their negativity. Leaders must be ready to

effectively engage adversity with sure, certain and swift action.

With a serious commitment to reason, a leader insists upon knowing the facts.

Factuality in rational evidentiary proofs suggests a special penchant for understanding the

details of any given situation. Likewise, the patience for the proclivity to comprehend the

various factors involved, necessitate the examination of each problem solving aspect. To

skeptically inquire consistently, using rational thinking processes is not something readily

employed by most people. Even presumed smart people act stupidly.

Investigation of detailed information is critical. A thorough investigative continuum is

essential. Those who do not take the time to ensure the facts relative to the evidence

confess inefficiency, incompetency and infectiveness. In regard to the general public, in

the event of an emergency condition, emotionalism trumps reality and evidentiary proofs

are replaced by stupidly contrived dogmatic assumptions. Fallacies of subversive

inference are perpetrated by magical thinking to satiate hasty generalizations.

In the contemporary scheme of pretentiousness to the act leadership, anyone can hold

himself or herself out to be a leader. However, in reality, there are very few, perhaps

less that 25% across the population, who actually have such potential. Forget finding

sufficient examples of high quality leadership in the political arena. Those days are gone,

selfishness is more prevalent for hedonistic agendas.

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Reliable, consistent and exemplary leadership, from a selfless capacity for service and

exceptional performance is in scarce supply. Why? There are a number of reasons. From

a lack of accountability to responsible growth and maturity, some aspects are

institutional, while other elements are primarily personal. Cowardice for the satiation of

gain at any cost, with little or no risk or challenge, to the plundering of human and natural

resources that punish or penalize ingenuity and creativity.

Organized political and commercial interests, concentrated in an increasingly smaller

sector of a powerful few, selfishly manipulate conformity in communal processes.

Intelligence is often criticized by the silly conjecture of foolish diatribe. However, for the

limited number of leaders, they bravely persevere in spite of the rampant stupidity that

surrounds them. While ignorance may be bliss among a significant number in any given

organization, including presumed smart people, stupidity has a hefty cost.

The price of imprecise thinking, coupled with metaphorical psychobabble and silly

inappropriate analogies, reflect the dumbing down and eventual demise of a culture. A

failure to grow maturely, to ascend to a higher evolved status, requires exceptional

capacity, skillful ability and deeply profound thinking. A brain creates the thinking we

call a mind, and that inner entity must assure the reality of every moment.

Such human driven actions insists upon the bravery of individuality, constant

questioning of everything, never-ending process of learning, and the inclusion of logical

insistence upon facts over fictions. Such a group of leaders is extremely rare in number in

todays post-modern society. Wealth, fame and consumption, combined with power,

control and domination, reflect the narcissism of our times.

To him or her, who lacks the capacity to appreciate the essence of leadership, life

revolves around him or her and it is all about them. They need attention, they seek

attention, and they desire the validation of their attention getting efforts. By contrast, each

actual or potential leader, apprentice or mentor, is at a different point of transformation.

Over the passage of time, this has become an even smaller group available to offer

extraordinary leadership status. Nonetheless, the sleight of hand never ends as the con

artists ply their illicit deceptions. For many talk about leadership, yet few have ever

experienced what it is. In American society, many so-called experts claim some type

of expertise in whatever they think they know and want us to believe.

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How does one expect to teach, consult or otherwise counsel on the elements of

leadership if they have never learned by way of experience in the real world? As to

anything in a three-dimensional conception, how does one understand the essence of

perception, absent the testing of its existence? In other words, if one has never ventured

outside the classroom, sensed a realm beyond theory, touched the very naturalism of

surroundings, and the people involved, to become a serious practitioner of their craft,

what do they really know? How gullible are we to such speculation?

Leadership potentiality rests upon the individuals psychodynamic nature of personal

liberation through constant self-analysis. Independence of thought translated into action

rebels against the status quo at every opportunity. Additionally, to enrich the prospects of

leading wisely, one strives to find frequent moments for solitude. To be quiet, to listen

and learn from the evolving differentiation, is to grow more deeply. By daily meditative

practice, a leader builds upon his or her foundation of discerned thinking. Self-evolution

necessitates the ongoing development of individual character.

Wisdom, discipline, insight, prudent behavior, and mature ascendency, relate to a

complex mixture of personality, fortified by practice, experience and learning. To mature

in knowledge and apply intelligent discretion from that process requires always doing

what is right, as opposed to what is expedient. No matter how unpopular, bluntly honest,

or potentially disturbing, the truth must be revealed.

At the end of one journey, it is time to let go of what has been, leave, and move on to

start a new story and newer version. Some can never walk away gracefully. Their

neediness is evidence of their predicament. Yet, leaders know when it is time to go. They

comprehend the essential nature of the special art, skill and expertise of being a

competent forthright leader. Courage of character fortifies the reflection of personality.

Endlessly, a leader seeks to learn from his or her experiences.

Both the positive encounters, as well as the adverse ones, improve the prospects of

cultivating ones skills. By bravely going places where others do not go, having real

field experience so to speak, he or she learns to grasp the real basis for a

knowledgeable perspective. That is to say, with actual awareness of ones information

base, gain by real-world interactions, the leader can grow confidently as to the issues,

matters and controversies at hand. Fear of action has no place within the framework.

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A leader embraces the fortifying effects of oppositional transitions to provoke the

senses to higher thoughtfulness in personal ascendency. Very few will ascend to an

authentic version of leadership. Many will pretend, others for them will defend, and many

will not ascend. Stagnation will be their legacy for a demise they created. Nevertheless,

for the leaders, the limited number there are, he or she endeavors to change, although it is

difficult, the leader desires to be different. Yet, it is too late for most.

As for the extent of humanity, globally speaking, it may already be futile for any

major transformation of the species. Yet, that is not relevant to the individual personality.

Each has a different mission to perform, of which, such is highly personal and private.

Externalities do not matter to the substance of a more ascended person, in terms of the

quest for achieving an individualized renovation. By neither the fat bloated consumptive

preoccupation with self-indulgence, thinking processes must change.

Superficiality of limited, if not stupid, thinking processes engorge the static

perspective of the senses. Around the spectrum of creative ideations, the fences of

defenses elongate the detrimental purposes of self-destructions. And, discerning the true

meaning of things, the intentions of others and peaceful presence of understanding the

details, all becomes crucial. To see linkages, possibilities and consider the probable

outcomes, relates to the constant alterations one strives to makes changes.

In addition, without wavering, she or he, the one who ascends the leadership sphere,

stays on the informed straight and narrow path regardless of the obstacles. All around,

she or he senses the chaos, the arrogance, the selfishness and debasing aims of others.

The falsehoods or the adversities that arise are quickly recognized. Unfortunately, by

contrast in todays world of abject shallowness, and stifled thinking, people chase after

the all-knowing guru. The alleged wise sage enters to solve complex issues with easy

quick fix answers. In the age of the experts, those who insist on a limited worldview

with unevolved growth, worship the altar of pretended authority.

With so many internet specialists, management consultants, and motivational

speakers, you would think blissful utopia would have already encircled the globe with

all manner of lofty enlightenment. What do they really know? Better yet, what is their

level of expertise and real experience? Are they even old enough, mature and wise

enough, to offer counsel at any range of interpersonal encounter?

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For instance, one should consider the many schools and colleges, where practitioners

with actual worldly expertise do no teach, nor have the written the textbooks. No, instead,

the lecture halls are filled with the pundits and pontificators of limited world-view. What

is their essence of their manner and bearing ideologically to any pretense of seasoned

knowledge, and maturity of learning? Anyone can have an opinion. Likewise, everyone

can foster a theory, or insist upon a belief system, good or bad.

As to the yearning for the glitz, glamor and gore, the drive is the desire for satiation at

any expense, for the eventual score. As with fame, fortune and foolishness, the selfie of

ones reflection is more than a snapshot of limited perception. Many travel the well-worn

passages of safe conformity, secure mediocrity and selfish herding. In the simplistic

resonance of day-to-day stagnation, the believability in myth, magic and metaphor,

smoke and mirrors, hasten human devolution in debasing regression.

As deceptions cloud necessity of ensuring the facts and pursuing the truth, systems

deteriorate. Yet, persistent contrivances reinvent old ways of doing the same old things

redundantly, as if that is safer than taking inventive risks. And, what for? The

accumulation of information for the subservience of some egoistic obsession with

approval and sanctification does not lift and propel an ascendant collaboration. For all the

accreditations, the licensing stipulations, the incessant certifications, accumulation of

pretended knowledge, the decline continues in arrogant self-destructiveness.

As mentioned earlier, with all the experts, where is the advancement of the planetary

civilization? One might ruthlessly inquire, as to a pundits qualifications. Back to the

classroom for instance, where hope springs eternal, academicians who never left college,

continue the adolescence of playful capitalization in the exploitations of their limitations.

So, for the leader a couple questions are kept in the forefront of thinking at all times.

When confronted by what seems to be a set of alleged facts, one should ask, what do

you mean, how do you know and what if youre wrong? Is the effort and answer by the

book, well supported inside the pages, data driven outside the cover, and by the wit and

wisdom of creative inspiration, by way of interpretation? A leader harbors skeptical

mental alacrity by the courage of self-evolving convictions, supported by the factuality of

proof. For which, he or she willingly confronts the immaturity of deceitful purposes.

Anyone can talk, but only a few know the actions to be taken.

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Everyone can ask questions, but a few seriously understand what is being asked. With

that, for every effort, never underestimate the potential acts of stupidity of any group, by

word or action. Talkers will criticize, most often by negative reactivity, but walkers make

things happen by the mature wisdom of experienced insight. Leaders get to the action. In

the process, they demonstrate by example the essentiality of being responsible. Forsaking

the show and tell of their self-aggrandizement, they ascend in mature ways.

On the contrary, anyone can pretend to be a leader. After all, some expert taught

them that such was possible by following a simple checklist at some seminar. The all

hallowed workshop of time wasting possibilities told them so. In any setting, anyone can

be skillfully destructive in their negativity and subsequent pretenses to knowing

something. However, if commentary is not followed by inventive problem solving, then it

is potentially wasted energy, and of no relevance to the mission.

As to such a relationship, it should be considered, that people change themselves very

little over time. Its hard work to be smart and self-evolved. In opposition, most prefer

and relish in the enjoyment of the symbolism of sucking their thumb, nursing the nectar

of primal substances, and relearning potty training, repeatedly. The vast majority do

not venture too far from that juvenile pubescent journey.

Most people will not invest the time and effort to achieve an ascended, which is

greatly improved, more advanced version of their original self. The fractured

dysfunctional framework of the prototype remains the same. Regardless of rank, social or

economic status, inheritance or heritage, the majority remains stifled. Many consume, but

few innovate and instigate profound transformations. Those who dont are much happier

settling into a routine and complaining when their happiness is threatened.

Threats come in many forms and are deceptive. Discernment is important. For many,

minds have been made up, because others have told them what to think. They will be

complacently satisfied with less than optimum performance. Understanding the dynamics

is valuable to the leader. Leaders must perceive what is right and what translates as

nonsense, or sometimes referred to as baloney and sausage, then do what is relevant

and appropriate. No doubt, there is plenty of foolishness to go around. Courage in every

aspect of interpersonal interaction mirrors the character traits of valor, fortitude, bravery,

and fearlessness, and is essential to ones leadership capabilities.

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With a profound deficient nature in the lack of modern leadership, situations devolve

rapidly to crisis conditions at every level of society. In both private and public realms,

especially at the highest levels of pretentiousness to decision making, culture

interconnectivity suffers as the human species regresses. At the same time, the few

leaders at hand continue to valiantly strive to bring about transitions.

For the borrowed time, the quick fix simplicity of cheap ignorance, and the adolescent

fixations of self-gratification, all come with a high price. From one generation to the next,

the deception continues to provoke global devolution by insistence upon a heritage of

redundancy. The same old tired ideas, bloated political hypocrisy, the worn out trite

debates, the superficial commentary, and the host of clichd greedy repetitions, debase

the nature-nurture progress of the human species.

With a warriors mindset, the differentiated leaders never fail to express the selfless

compassionate devotion to others. All for the sake of the mission, to be accomplished

with focused precision, there is no time for immaturity, adolescent obsessiveness, or

weak-minded timidity. Foolish frivolity of self-fixation must be forsaken so that all are

afforded options for change. Realistically, such will not transpire. The gloomy side of it

all is the slippery slope of human nature and malevolent intentions.

For the goals to be achieved, all must take an active part, absent the debased purposes

of collusive stupidity. Yet, you are collaborating with imperfect beings, dysfunctional

psyches, and fractured self-images. A basic self takes time, and extraordinary energy and

tireless effort to alter, change and transform. Some are trying, most will not.

Nonetheless, leadership, true courageous leadership, prevails in spite of the infantile

disruptions one must continually address. As the stress of command never ends, neither

does the anxiousness of changing oneself. In opposition to the regression, selflessness,

not self-interests, as a humble servant warrior leader, becomes a living personification of

liberated individuality. Freethinking animation of presence is challenging.

Leadership requires hard work in daily disciplined dedication to a warriors code of

devotion, as well as selfless acts of humility, with an influence of empathy. It is the

proper planning of actions to prevent poor performance of ones duties. A leader is a

humble servant warrior who desires nothing in return, except that which enhances his or

her ability to transform. Transformation is essential to ascendency.

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To the contrary, vast numbers of the human species will not take up their quest, or

their journey, for their own inner revolution. They will choose the easy way out and

avoid the battle within themselves. Regardless of what others do, it is of no relevance to

the individuality of the leader. He or she comprehends that one cannot change others.

Others must change themselves. Likewise, they are where they have chosen to be. If they

have chosen consumption over character, for instance, then each follows the simplistic

motions of hunting for ever-increasing notions of materiality.

In the meantime, the leader, on her or his road to higher planes of thought, is forever

vigilant for the worldly deception and dishonesty that surrounds him or her. Evidence is

everywhere at to the lunacy of the human species, particularly for those who pursue the

folly of their self-centeredness. True leaders guard against the distractions of this realm

and protect their senses from the mythic illusions of the masses. Laboriously, those

committed to what some call the heros quest, will discover tireless energies are

expended in the daily discipline of liberating their individuality.

A differentiated style of leadership invites deeper thinking. Being an example to

others means a discerning and insightful countenance, which shares the value of

experience and knowledge acquired. Again, how does one realistically lead, train,

demonstrate, instruct or otherwise impart their expertise to others, if they have never

experienced real-world interactions and application? One can easily pontificate and

prevaricate the spin of their pundit perspective from behind a desk.

Leaders are sometimes difficult to categorize in terms of the typical typologies of

leadership. They are unique personalities, of which, other are often resentful, critical

and fearful. For the self-evolving, differentiated and creative mentor to subordinates, they

are of their own making. As such, leaders patiently observe and listen to their

environment, wherever that happens to be. Calmly, they wait for each moment to unfold,

as one who can hear the echo of what needs to be heard.

Ascending higher, the leader works to reconstruct from the inside out, with no

distraction by that which argues from the outside. His or her primary focus is

individuality and knowing where the boundaries are. He or she is relentless in the pursuit

of an expanded maturity that knows no allegiance the impermanence of materiality, or the

foolishness of chasing immortality. Sooner or later, all of it ends.

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