If you want to be a good leader hire a person who counters your views. Well, you must be thinking I’ve gone crazy to say such a thing, but you’ll see sense in what I’m saying, a little while later.

Are you aware that this world is full of people who don’t think exactly the way you do? When I was a team leader at my office, I used to take pride in my knowledge and capabilities. People would simply nod their heads in approval to whatever I said. Then one day, a fresher came who pointed out loopholes in my outlook. Though my ego played on me, for a while, for taking tips from a new recruit, I saw sense in what he said and changed my approach. This saved us a lot of unnecessary hassles. This is where I used opposition positively.

You, as a leader, should always be prepared for challenges. You might be the king in your organization, but since you need to prove your mettle in the outer world, you’ve got to fight criticism and win over it. For this it is advisable for you to do some internal preparation. If there are people in your team who hold opposing views, encourage them to express their views. This will help you in knowing the kind of criticism you might have to face in the outside world and get yourself ready for countering it. Don’t get disheartened by criticism. Carefully mark what the other person has to say and use these as leads for rectification.

When hiring people who differ from you, be prepared to take in some ideas which might irritate you. Be sure to not intimidate the person from expressing himself because if you do so, you’ll lose valuable viewpoints that you might have to get prepared to answer. Rather give your opponent the support to speak out his mind freely because this will not only expose the validity of your judgment, but also clarify your thinking.

If you want to hire people with opposing mindsets, just follow these basic guidelines:

1. Assess if the opposing views are worthwhile. If someone just opposes you for the sake of arguing then and his argument has not substance or does not seem to be more effective than yours, just forget him. He’s not worth your time and effort.
2. Your opponent should come up with feasible solutions for the problem at hand. His views should be practical and effective in handling the situation at hand. There’s no point in hiring people who just counter your views but are not able to come up with any solutions.
3. Look out for people with high aspirations for working for the welfare of the organization. They don’t contradict you to show their superior intellectual skills or to point out your faults, but out of a genuine interest to bring about a change for the betterment of the organization. These are the people who prove themselves in the long run. Respect their views and learn from them if necessary.
4. Hire people with promising professional backgrounds. If you come across a person who’s stood against all hardships, such as, fierce competition, lesser resources or a radical change in the organizational structure, and emerged successful, this is the person you are looking for. Just get him, he’ll see you through.
5. Never hire a person who’s opposed to you and not to your ideas. Such a person is dangerous. He’s no better than an enemy who has some personal grudge against you. He’ll distort things to satisfy his personal wrong motives and will put the company in peril. Just forget him or just keep him under control.

Whoever wins the argument, whether you or your opponent, just be sure that you, as the assigned leader has the final say, otherwise the rest of your followers will be confused as to whom they have to follow in future. If you find that the opposing view is producing better solutions for a particular problem, just accept that view with an open mind, commend your opponent for coming up with a nice solution, but pass the final decision yourself. Don’t let another person formally control your team.

Remember, accepting others views is not a sign of your submission to their intellect. No person is perfect in this world and no thinking is perfect. To err is human and a wise man learns from experiences and modifies his self to climb up a higher rung in the ladder to perfection.

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Creating and writing a blog is as important and as special as attending a child, as your baby grows so does it needs, the same thing is with blogs. Your blogging network may not reach bigger heights in just one day it takes time to build its network as you tend to it lovingly, it will grow rosier by the day. Your blog is just not one thing that you want to convey to your audience but it’s that network through which you will open up your heart to people and make them listen to what you feel about any of the subjects. It’s a sense of reverence that you get while giving birth to your blog because there are endless possibilities through which you would be able to target your audience in a very unique way.

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Before you head out for writing your own blogs make sure to write down your goals and plans on the paper, then slowly get your physical plans into implementation, also be specific to the point which you want to write your blogs on. May whatever time it may take to start with your blog, choose the right path even if it means letting your plans getting postpones. Hurrying up may speed your work but you will never get the quality for the same. Nurture your creations with creative ideas on the blog, get advise from experts in the field and make sure you write interesting things on the blog that is going to attract people from all genres of life. Shape your blog the way you always wanted using your ideas, advise from experience people and get your thinking into actual implementation, start thinking over the type of design, the colors that you are going to use in your designs and develop concepts which will attract more audience in to your project.

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Join different social networking site where you can  make your blog popular by getting your creative ideas in to marketing of blogs, you can also try giving comments to people on other blogs network and also comment on your own blogs too. In the world of blogs, there is nothing like marketing in actual terms as you get your blogs in to A listings you will automatically become popular through suggestions of people. as you have started with your blog, your blog is born and you are also feeding it with information that people want to read but its not over yet, blog is a continuous process, new information has to come in and keep people entertained.

The only time you have to stop is when you want your blog to die, it is obvious that you will never want this till the time you are alive, so its obvious that you will try and keep trying your best to get the best in your blogs and make it worthwhile. While maintaining your blogs good things as well bad things will occur to you but you need not worry and get up set you have to drag it full-fledged with positive approach with positive talks on your blogs. When your blog is growing you are surely going to face many problems but never let those problems get in to your ideas of growing your network, you will face number of problems like spamming, hackers, haters, content scraps, bad comments, etc. but you only choose your path to success rather than getting distracted. This is the only way you will get to success. Listen to yourself and go ahead writing whatever you feel on a particular topic.