4 Pillars of Business describe the meaningful management requirements that show proper ways for improvement.
Knowledge is not IQ. It manifests itself in action and consists in stopping chasing only the material; to create a balance, figuratively speaking, a larger framework, a structure in which spirituality, self-development, love, the meaning of life replenishes reason, rationality, wealth, changing egocentric directions to universal ones.
To understand yourself, to conquer your fears, to find happiness, you need to have free time, and even better – to get personal freedom with a regular flow of money without daily involvement in labor activity. Achieving personal freedom and building a self-developing business rest on 4 Pillars of Business:
Self-control
The scriptures say that pain and pleasure chase each other and mutually destroy each other. Many executives crave the pleasure of beating a competitor. The lesion gives me pain. But business is not the Olympic Games, but a marathon, where there is no finish line.
Victory and defeat are relative phenomena that cause strong emotions and fill the participants’ firms with stress. In such a cycle of life with a thirst for victory over a competitor, the leader most often subconsciously acts as an organizer of fires in his company. Someone who doesn’t understand this is like sleeping in a burning house.
The counterweight to this approach is self-control and calmness. Self-control is the result of wisdom. Wisdom is born when the mind is calm, pure, peaceful, and free from the desire to harm anyone. If the manager is deprived of self-control, he causes chronic stress in the entire company. No one knows who the boss is scolding, no one knows what is called a well-done task, since the boss always looks to the future and sees only tasks in the future tense.
Striking a Balance Between Fear and Trust in Leadership
He gets angry if others don’t understand it. Any victory over a competitor for him is not a victory since competition cannot be destroyed. In his opinion, everyone in the company is obliged to see the accumulating problems, risks and dangers of the future and solve them in advance or at least warn him about it. But in fact, he punishes for warnings. The messenger who brought bad news must be destroyed because he gives food for fear.
The boss hates his deeply hidden fear of what might be unlucky, requires development, scolds for tardiness and mistakes that constantly arise due to lack of time for reflection and evaluation. This instills fear, frequent changes of managers, and the favorites of the “king” understand that the best position in such a firm is an adviser, not an operations manager. They understand that if they only take up the wheel, their careers will quickly end. That is why such a chief is a malicious secret organizer of fires and the throatiest screamer: “Burning!”, “Who is to blame?”.
The counterbalance to such a leader is that the pleasure felt in society and company of someone who is completely in control of himself is incomparable. Everyone intuitively trusts him. No one hates him, not even the worst competitors, demons, and goblins. Self-control allows you to logically, rather than emotionally, plan, analyze mistakes without blaming others, find solutions, transfer transitional leadership to subordinates and, in the style of a goose flock, overcome huge oceans to find “pastures” for your business.
The spirit of knowledge.
The spirit of knowledge is indistinguishable from reflection. A wise leader devotes part of his time to reflection every day, associating it with observation. Quiet, calm, imperceptible to others observation serves as food for the gods for further thought process and constant improvement of the activities of organizations. The wise one considers strength, intelligence, efficiency, and timely action to be the result of reflection.
Conversely, when the mind becomes dull due to a lack of reflection, then even the cool rays of the moon are deadly weapons, and the undeveloped imagination in every dark corner sees a ghost. Therefore, a non-thinking leader is a repository of problems and suffering. Lack of reflection leads to actions that are dangerous for organizations and the owner himself, and often for the environment.
Satisfaction
The satisfaction with what has been achieving is the third pillar of liberation. What does that mean? Many managers do not allow their subordinates to feel joy from what has been achieves. Everything is not enough for them, everything is scary, everything is not enough. That doesn’t mean you don’t have to do anything else, no, it’s the other way around. But contentment is the ability to wait, to let something happen on its own. If you do not learn to wait, even more fuel is splash into the fire, everything burns, and the result only moves away.
As the wise say, a satisfied person who owns nothing owns the world. Nothing is an internal state without contagious fears that create useless chronic, daily stress, which, like a virus, spreads to the entire organization.
Regular conversations with wise, enlightened people.
The 4 Pillars of Business – the company of wise, spiritual, and enlightened people – develops intelligence, destroys misunderstanding and relieves the psychological stress of the leader himself. Whatever the price, no matter how difficult it may be. No matter what obstacles arise, never neglect the company of the wise. Only conversations sanctify the road of life.
The company of the wise is the best company on the way to the goal. Contentment with what is the highest personal achievement. The spirit of knowledge is itself the highest knowledge.