Our Real Potential
- Nov 22, 2025
- 3 min read
Ikeda said: “Everything depends on what is in our hearts. If we decide to ourselves that something is impossible, then, consistent with our minds in thinking so, even something that is possible for us will become impossible. On the other hand, if we have the confidence that we can definitely do something, then we are already one step closer to achieving it in reality”
The biggest satisfaction for a leader is to see their collaborators growing. Our rule is to create the perfect condition so they can express their potential. I have seen colleagues that were considered bad workers, but they became good workers with great leaders. Our role is crucial in creating an environment where each collaborator believes they are the best worker in the company. However, if you are the first that doesn’t believe in your collaborators they perceive it, and in this case, your words will not have an effect.
To express our potential, we need to go out comfort zone because only outside it can we take out the best version of ourselves. Sometimes we need to choose the difficult way if we want to change the situation or change the results. When I decided to undertake my African work experience, I had never lived abroad furthermore I didn’t speak English very well. Despite all difficulties that I didn’t realize very well on my mind, my dream was to have a humanitarian African experience. The first month was horrible, I went to Kiswahili school in Morogoro alone with several other international volunteers (Australian, American, Austrian, and so on) who spoke English very well unlike me. Therefore, I had to study Swahili with the English language, the perfect cultural mix for my mind and soul. I have never thought that I could learn two languages at the same time, but I pushed myself to do it. My desire to realize my dream was bigger than all the difficulties that I met during that period.
In my previous article, I described the differences to work with different cultural colleagues and collaborators. In spite of cultural differences, all human beings desire gratification and realization of their dreams. Inside your team, you need to understand the different characters, dreams, and needs to try to realize their expectations. Sometimes it’s very difficult to move towards your goal, company goal, professional realization, colleagues’ requests, and collaborator needs. A perfect recipe doesn't exist to win like in sports we need to go out of our comfort zone every time to find new solutions and be better than the day before.
In team sports usually when things don’t go well the coach is the first one found guilty so that the board decides to change him. We have seen several players in different sports that with one coach they were bad players but at the same time with other coaches, they are incredible players. At work, in my opinion, we can live the same situation because the leader/coach does make the difference between a good team and bad team. In navy seal training, an exercise exists where the team must bring up the dinghy and run for an indefinite period. Every team has a leader that helps to motivate and support his crew. Navy seals have demonstrated that leaders make the difference between winning or losing because when they decided to change leaders inside the different teams the results suddenly changed.
The best leader is the one who takes out the best potential from his collaborators despite any kind of situation but to do it you have to have very high empathy knowledge, good coaching skills, and finally, you need to know very well your collaborators work to constantly support them in every situation. It’s challenging to have all these features simultaneously, but it doesn’t mean it is impossible because nothing is impossible.
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