When Jim Ritchie mentions in this week’s video that our time is almost over with his videos. I felt first that I need to go back and listen to his videos again and then I got a little sad that this time is going fast because I feel for the first time the joy of learning. Jim Ritchie mentions some key qualities from a leader that covers all the other videos and readings for this week. He said, “My favorite definition of a true leader is a person who takes others to higher ground”. Sometimes we don’t need to have the leader title to take other people to higher ground, I like how Guy Kawasaki said that there are pie eaters and bakers, pie eaters take the chance to get the advantage over other people, but we know that the bakers are seeking actively to make more pies and reach out for everyone to have what they need and help everyone, even help the pie eaters. This is how bakers take others to higher ground. Carly Fiorina said, “think leadership is about three things: capability, collaboration, and character.” And she explained that capability is “the most important capability you can have is the capability to ask a question and hear the answer.” I think that the same, capability to understand what is going on around you, what is exactly the market needs, and how it needs to be done. We need to leave on the side the ego true leaders leave the ego on the side because they don’t have time for it, they are too busy leading their team to higher ground. With this, she remarks that customer opinions and feedback are very important for a company to keep in business and innovations come with the search to have happy customers. In this case, we guide our team or company to higher ground and not only the company but our customers.

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