The Female Leader. Sonja Becker
your life, we will show you how you can use your own sense of curiosity to do it. It is like the scout on the path. Follow your sense of curiosity and you will always see a light in front of you, regardless of whether you are still contemplating a product or have already placed it on the market. Wherever you are, there is always a step in front of you. You will find it difficult, but there is no going back. Real success is complicated. “She is a Natural Leader” is written for intelligent and motivated individuals who regard their careers as a game. Not a game of chance, but a sport, which they learn, train for and during which they continually encounter new challenges their whole life long. They know what they want to achieve. We show how it can be achieved.
Most people don’t lack courage for a career; they lack the footing and the attitude. If you don’t have the orientation, you will change direction more often. Every time that costs a lot of time and money. Because we show you the way, you learn how to place time and money respectively in relation to your plan and thereby learn how to use them as instruments for yourself effectively and successfully. This is the right way. For while the number of steady jobs is rapidly sinking and the number of unemployed drastically increasing, the number of people become self-employed is growing – and not only since the government scheme supporting the self-employed. People who are waiting for changes can wait a long time. If you want security, you make your fate dependent on others. If you follow your sense of curiosity, you will radiate joy and will arouse the curiosity of others. And perhaps their greed, too.
Go another way. Find your own. Drop out of the statistic. Become self-employed. Offer a service that is near to your heart and you will find millions of people who have been waiting for it. They will be infected by your enthusiasm. You career will have its ups and downs and smiles and frowns. But with this book you always know what you can do for or against them.
This book is the outcome of experience with thousands of clients that I have had since 1993. We have learned from these countless training sessions. And we are still learning. And out of this has arisen the model of the “performance scale”, which will stand you in good stead as a personal career road map. But something has to be clear from the start: what type of businesswoman are you? Do the following quiz. The result may possibly surprise you.
WHICH KIND OF LEADER ARE YOU?
T
EN NOT VERY SERIOUS QUESTIONS WHICH WILL REVEAL YOUR ATTITUDE AND CLEAR THE WAY FOR YOU.
Satisfaction depends on whether we know who we are and what we want. Then we can do things which correspond to our talents and temperament. We all know that leaders are very different in character.
We have taken three types that we have come across again and again and who had blazed a trail. And one of them will most resemble you.
For your business to be successful you need all three. You have aspects of all three in you. At first you have to play all three roles. But a leading role is designed for you.
However we should be honest. There are no right answers and wrong answers. Have fun with the “She is the Natural Leader” personality test – and especially with the results.
1.At the moment you are reading:
a.The Little Prince. Againandagain. Really from another planet.
b.Harry Potter. I want to know what people find so fascinating about it. And if you can keep a secret: I can’t stop any more.
c.Machiavelli for Women. Simple,effective, efficacious.
2.What is your house like?
a.A sexy apartment in Bauhaus style with a lot of room for meditation.
b.Trendy, colorful and lively. No need to change it round for a party.
c.Classical with a hint of country style. Another world where you can wind down and feel comfortable.
3.What did you want to be as a child?
a.A diva
b.A Nobel Prize winner
c.Chancellor
4.Which of these things would be the most desirable?
a.A silver wedding
b.Multiple orgasms
c.A meteoric career
5.You are sitting in your favorite bar with a glass of Bailey’s in front of you, when your dream man walks in and gives you a cheeky grin. What happens next?
a.I can already see us waking up together the next morning. I play the siren and get him to come over and sit with me.
b.I buy him a Bailey’s before he does.
I teach him some manners. If he behaves, he will pay my check. Otherwise he gets what he deserves.
6.Your worst vice is?
a.Nice shoes
b.Soft drugs (nicotine, alcohol)
c.Men
7.What do you like to wear best?
a.Prada, Etro, Chanel. Esprit in your free time.
b.Jennifer Lopez style tasty butt jeans, a scanty blouse by Helmut Lang: it’s always free time.
c.Jil Sander, Calvin Klein. Elegant and practical for every occasion.
8.Your ideal first date looks like this:
a.He appears like a prince on a white horse to save me. And next time he’ll bring a picnic basket with him.
b.During happy hour he is suddenly standing next to me, and we both sense something between us.
c.Brahms by candlelight, and then he even conjures a soufflé out of the oven.
9.How do you end it?
a.The “man of my life” turns out to be a complete idiot. But after the game is before the game. I have already found a replacement.
b.I flirt with his best friend. In his face of course.
c.I throw his drink in his face and turn on my heels. In the case of betrayal I turn my heel on his breastbone.
10.On whom or what would you rely when it comes to the question of whether he is Mr. Right?
a.On the question whether we discover new and wonderful things together, and how many minutes, hours, months or years it would take before we got bored with each other. Or never…
b.On my intuition and on my best friends.
c.On precedence and the color of his tie.
11.Which adjective describes you best?
a.Romantic
b.Passionate
c.Self-confident
Results
Count up the number of letters in your answers. The letter with the highest count corresponds closest to your type. And now read through all three “types”.
TYPE A: THE VISIONARY
You are an artist who makes what she wants of the world. Your visions and your illusions are your capital. You are a bit of a Pippi Longstocking and a bit of a Sleeping Beauty who has yet to be kissed. In case of emergency the right shoe will do: preferably by Manolo Blahnik, for your ideas enable you to be richly rewarded. Once you have been awakened by a kiss, you see more things than others and are able to create something which others turn into a product, a service or a business.
You live in the future. You can inspire other people to do what you want by your visionary power. Admittedly the daily grind and reality can cause this power to decrease. But in the long term you will always find a perfect solution, because your cheerful nature and your inspired soul keep you alert. And hopefully you will find the perfect partner. But be