Bring Something To The Table

As you being to build a team or an organisation, you are constantly looking for leader who can have the same vision as you to build up the team. "Bring something to the table" is an expression to describe a person's ability to contribute to the team and add value to the system or training.

Not everyone does that. In life, some people always want to be the "guest", some people always want to be serve rather to serve others. Wherever they go, they are there to be served, to have their needs met, to be the recipent. I too had came across these people in my organisation, when call upon them to contribute to the team, to be a trainer, you realise that thousand excuses can be develop. With this observation, I realise that even a person had a status or a pin, it does not mean they are the potential diamonds I am looking at. With these you can really know a person character, whether he had the "lion heart" to be a millionaire one day. Because they possess that selfish attitude, they never bring anything to the table for anyone else. After a while, those in his team will know if he is a true leader.

"Ask not what the country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country".. quote JFK, and the country is the people, the team and the organisation. The best way to learn is to teach, a true leader constantly looking for ways to bring something to the table for the team, for the system and for the organisation. I am constantly using this yardstick to identify who had the untity lion heart to contribute to the team, someone that worth my investment for life to groom them to be a millionaire.