The high point of my career was sailing as a captain on merchant ships. The captain is the most senior rank which comes with senior-most rank. A captain has provided various perks with a private luxurious cabin with a living room and day room, a private office space. Along with the perks, work comes up with great responsibility as safety of crew with lives of people on board.
The responsibilities of the captain include the ship and cargo worth of millions of dollars, the can also issue birth and death certificates. They can conduct marriages and issue marriage certificates. One signature on a cargo document enables the transaction of money through the letter of credits across international trade channels. All such duties are considered as a high degree of accountability. Every decision made on the ship by anyone of the crew member or the captain, the captain is accountable for everything. In difficult times, they call head office for advice. The organizational structure onboard was hierarchical, typical command and control. Such things make the captain a loner stating that leadership can be lonely.
It is a part of job where leadership and loneliness are synonymous to some extent
A leader seems lonely as they struggle to keep business to grow, keep their teams engaged and motivated, and manage client expectations.
3 steps can help in that
Step 1 – Awareness
Step 2 - Reflection
Step 3 – Empty Your Cup or find a confidant
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There must be a point in our childhood which carried vivid and messier imagination with colors that expressed or defined us freely without any hesitation or rules or styles.
Why did become more conscious about every move we make and what others would say?My journey with art began with my elder son showing interest in drawing and we enrolled him into weekend art classes.
His teacher was a reputed artist with an innate ability to connect with kids and help them discover the artist within themselves.
So here are some musings from the world of art which I enrolled to spend time to and how they have changed the way I look at life :Finding the problem–We are rising as solution-oriented instead of looking for the source of the problem.
Art can help in finding the problem before you go on the solution-finding mission.
First try to understand the problem better using different perspectives, before attempting to solve itIts OK to make mistakes -Every stroke of the brush comes with a new effect.
