1. Embrace Challenges
Understand that Zoom calls will become tedious, workplace confrontations create discomfort, and your father may be fatally poisoned by an enemy clan.
2. Use Both Sides of Your Brain to Problem Solve
Logic clarifies facts and rationalizes situations (okay, so you’re one of seven kids cared for by a single mother, you’ve just been kicked out of your clan, and now you’re sitting in the snow).
Meanwhile, creativity increases the methods and odds of finding solutions (you may only be ten years old, but you’re gonna have to get realllllll creative with that sharpened stick over there).
3. Network
Business cards are a flimsy substitute for genuine relationship building. One great way to expand your circle is to brave a life-threatening quest across Mongolia to retrieve your kidnapped wife – and you wouldn’t believe the connections you’ll make along the way!
4. Unify Workforce Under a Common Purpose
The most basic human purpose is to survive. What a great place to start! Creating a common purpose within your organization (or empire) will help your employees (or subjected clans) to fall into step with your leadership.
5. Create a Culture of Equality
Sure, you’re an Equal Opportunity Employer, but have you officially outlawed the kidnapping of women in your territory? That one may seem obvious, but it’s always good to check.
Further, have you entirely rooted out nepotism? Insider tip: Publicly killing your older brother may be the best way to show that nepotism really won’t be a problem for you.
6. Listen, Listen, Listen
Putting your ear to the ground is the best way to know if fleets of adversaries are riding in from a great distance.
7. Understand Limits
Exceeding expectations and stretching your employees is paramount in leadership, but you have to acknowledge and respect limits. For example, torture is an abominable practice that only breeds backaches and trust issues; however, murder is perfectly swift and final.
8. Make Communication Simple and Accessible
Find and employ both casual and formal communication platforms to enhance your organization’s performance. If no satisfactory options exist, try creating the first postal system. Use dogs, mules, sheep, carts – nothing is off the table. Really get creative here, guys.
9. Effectively Manage Criticism
Here’s a bow. Here’s an arrow.
10. Celebrate Talent
If you appreciate a coworker’s attention to detail, punctuality, or Excel savviness, have you tried marrying them? Marrying someone is a very straightforward way to say, “Hey, thanks for being great!”
And why not? Why not have nine wives?
11. Turn Your Following Into a Legacy
The unparalleled, absolute best way to do this is to have so many children, that even after a thousand years following your death, scholars will estimate that every one in two hundred men is your descendent!
