Constantly there are elections somewhere. And there are always winners and losers who have to pack their bags. As a politician, you are only in office for a limited time. That's why managers can learn a lot from you.

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5 Tips what managers of politicians can learn

One listens for one Choice often “after the election is before the election” or “we are now looking ahead”. Of course there are winners in every election, maybe even more than voters would like to believe. After all, we've all seen enough "elephant rounds" on election night, where politicians from various parties called themselves winners and you thought in astonishment on the screen: "Excuse me?"

At some point, however, disillusionment sets in. Because in a choice, there are not only winners, but also losers. The big loser was called in the federal elections 2013 eg FDP, which unfortunately pack their bags and take off from the Bundestag. After all, that's the basic idea of ​​a choice. Nice for the winner and bad luck for the loser.

1. Defeat as an acceptable risk

The subordinate candidate could now quietly leave the political stage, draw consequences from personal defeat and turn his back on politics.

However, very few do that, because the respective Candidates have a vision, a Objective, a plan and you follow it with conviction. So it happens that politicians often act according to the motto "fall down, get up, straighten the crown, move on". A possible defeat becomes an acceptable one Risks.

2. Management: Not everything is planned

And this is where the bridge to management comes in, because not every vision, every goal, every plan is there either Implementation later successful. Sometimes the risks of the respective action cannot be fully foreseen.

Then that counts Courage in one's own abilities and in the constructive handling of a possible failure. Then mistakes, mistakes and defeats as well as the respective dealing with the consequences are part of it.

3. Explore the world outside your own comfort zone

However, if you reverse your opponent's defeats and the associated possibility of your own failure, you will slow yourself down and establish a mistake avoidance strategy, which makes the entry of new territory almost impossible.

Only those who realistically consider the possibility of their own failure can break new ground and Welt explore outside of your comfort zone. And sometimes that works and sometimes it doesn't. The question is therefore not whether potential failure should be avoided by not starting in the first place, but rather how to deal with potential failure.

4. Failure does not have to be negative

Because failure is shared by most People as very negative experienced. The key to dealing with a personal defeat in a meaningful way is to face your own negative feelings emotions to become aware. This requires a look back, the conscious perception and balancing of the current situation as well as an open view of the Future.

5. What managers should not look better

Embracing the possibility of failure as well as actual failure useful Dealing with it means expanding your personal scope of action, sometimes beyond your own comfort zone. And this applies equally to politics and management.

Unfortunately, many politicians do not necessarily have this ability. In this case, managers cannot learn from politicians. Too bad the opportunity given away.


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