Throughout history, leadership has been a widely misunderstood concept.

Leaders have always been equally feared, revered, blamed, praised, and, above all, misunderstood.

 

How many of the people throughout history, who have feared, revered, blamed and praised their leaders, have made an honest and serious effort to understand what their leaders feel like, carrying the burden of leadership? Leaders have essentially been envied and admired, and little understood.

 

A little more than hundred years ago, my great-grandfather, Ignaz Porkert, who was an entrepreneur with twenty employees producing leather gloves, became mayor of his hometown. 

He was more selected than elected, people insisted they wanted him to be the mayor of their town, and he accepted. He was popular without seeking to be so. He simply was serious about his attitude to serve anyone he came in contact with to the best of his ability. 

 

His son Bruno studied physics and engineering and was the supervising engineer when electrical power was first introduced to their town in the 1920s. Before the Second World War, Bruno was running a business with about thirty employees producing electrical appliances that he had designed. His son Manfred, as a little boy, often overheard the term “induction”, as my grandfather was quite fascinated with the work of Nikola Tesla.

Children are open-minded and playful, and they like to explore their surroundings. When little Manfred would mess up something, his father would patiently explain to him – for instance – the details and the workings of an electrical device, or whatever had caused trouble or confusion, and was always happy to do so. 

Bruno knew that commands, prohibitions, and rules cannot compensate for or take the place of understanding. 

And so, he always took the time to explain accurately and comprehensievly what had been misunderstood.

 

Asking for the “Why” in any situation is the first decisive step towards greater understanding, and clarity. 

 

How often have you asked yourself how you became the person you are today?

 

How often have you asked yourself what is your most compelling motivation to be present in the world?

 

How often have you asked yourself why you exist?

How often have you managed to immerse yourself in answering this question in a way that eventually led you to deeply rooted self-confidence?

 

 

Leadership basically is about asking for the “Why”.

 

Always ask for the “Why”!

Always keep asking for the “Why”!

Never stop asking for the “Why”!

 

Never ever stop asking for the “Why”!

– Franca Borgia –

Every now and then we all like to feed our sense of self-worth with one of the most nourishing and delicious dishes of all: Success!

Succès à la Grande

Like for any dish, the result is most delicious when we take the time to accurately select the ingredients. Ideally, the ingredients should be fresh ideas of the epoch and the millenium, harvest your most exquisite and uplifting imagination, and also add some seasoned spices.

It is totally up to you if you prepare the big idea in the frying pan or in the oven, but consider that you will need to calculate more time to preheat the oven, sometimes up to a couple of centuries.

If you are using a frying pan, make sure the oil and a few spoonful of the marinated fruits have already merged to create a tasty sauce that can be fully absorbed into the bite-size chunks of the big idea, for, even if you already have previously marinated them, the ultimate flavour derives from the heat.

The Ingredients:

1 Big Vision

1 Cup of Raw ExtraVirgin Red Palm Oil
Organic Unrefined

1 Handful of Fresh Ideas of the Epoch and the Millenium

1 Generous Ladle of your most Exquisite and Uplifting Imagination

1 Good Portion of Century-Old stored Fruits of Thought,
Marinated in Sweet&Sour Realism

Preparation:

First of all, before even getting started, you want to make sure you are in great spirits as we all know that the spirit of who is preparing a meal affects the energetic quality of the dish.
Get centered in happiness and gratitude before you even get started.

Chop up the big vision into bite size chunks. Maybe not all your guests have a metabolism that can digest and metabolize the big idea. That’s not your fault, but if you want them to enjoy the big idea, chop it up in tiny bite size chunks and marinate those for some time (a few hours, overnight, or a few centuries) in a seasoned sauce of sweet-and-sour realism.

Put on your favourite music while preparing and mixing the ingredients, use Love&Light-Incense to neutralize the hot and steamy atmosphere caused by the seasoned mixture of the organic unrefined oil and centuries-old fruits of thought marinated in sweet-and-sour realism.

Open the window if the weather is favourable and throw all the ingredients into a big frying pan (if you decide to prepare this dish in the oven, the entire preparation becomes more time-consuming).

Turn the heat down as soon as the bite-size chunks of the big idea start to jump up and down in the frying pan.

Let it stay warm on slow fire.

Serve it only as soon as your guests are really hungry for the big idea.
When your guests are already starving, because they have been on a diet of conformity, boredom, and self-destructive negativity, they will barely want to wait to take the big vision all in.

Decorate the table with the flowers your guests have brought you and put a carafe with the Clear Water of Discernment and Positive Emotion within reach for every guest, for refreshment.

Important: Refrain from serving the big idea to those who are not literally starving for it, because it may turn their metabolism upside down.

– Franca Borgia –