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 Attainer Assessment

How To Assess Super

Attainers

 

Main Ingredients for Making Super Attainers
 

1. Early Starters

Super Attainers often start doing amazing things early in their life. This gives them a head-start in learning all of the difficult lessons required to achieve greatness. Wolfgang Mozart, Warren Buffet and Bill Gates are a few of many examples. Sometimes they are pushed at a young age into a leadership position with fathers (examples are Alexander the Great, Ghengis Khan and Julius Caesar).

2. Nonconformists

It is safe to say that Super Attainers are not crowd followers. The making of momentous discoveries or promoting new ideas requires a personality that shows disdain for established authority and traditional opinions. Many great leaders led people who are culturally different from them in some important way. A few examples include: Adolf Hitler (Austrian Leading Germans), Joseph Stalin (Georgian leading Russians), Napoleon (Corsican Leading French).

3. Praise Be To Me

It is uncommon for Super Attainers to be humble about their abilities. They are supremely confident in themselves. They are often described as arrogant by others and are prone to disparage competitors. In advanced societies, many Super Attainers have come to recognize that being known as arrogant does not help their purpose and they do a good job of appearing modest. However, a bit of digging into their personality should uncover a deep feeling of self-significance.

4. Mentored & Motivated

Parents and other committed mentors often play a strong role in convincing Super Attainers in their childhood that they are extraordinary and developing their abilities. Some work with other great Attainers and later carry on their work. They are often sent to the best schools and get the best tutors for extra training. Mothers can play a strong role if they are supremely confident in their son's natural abilities and pass on this belief in a manner that it is internalized. Mussolini`s mother is quoted as saying, `If he becomes a soldier, he will be a general. If he becomes a monk, he will be a pope`. Pope John Paul II`s mother told everyone who would listen that her new baby would `be a great man one day.` Extreme examples are 2 of history's greatest leaders, Alexander the Great and Jesus of Nazareth. In both instances, highly religious mothers were convinced their children were sons of supernatural beings. 

5. Alone to the Top

Super Attainers are often described by others as dreamers, outsiders, cold-hearted and similar labels often given to loners. They are comfortable spending time in the company of themselves to ponder, study and develop. Many develop a love of solitary activities such as book-reading early in their life. They are not usually enthusiastic participants in team activities except when they are leader of the group, otherwise preferring individual activities. Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin and Erwin Rommel are a few examples of these people

6. Hard-Knocks Schooled

Super Attainers have often experienced traumatic times when their career or even their lives were in great peril. Childhood illnesses are one way that Super Attainers gain this feeling of vulnerability and resolve to overcome it. It is during these times that they gain an anxious feeling about their time in the world and comes to desperate realization that they must accomplish all they can when they have the chance because it can all come crashing down in the future. 

7. Discontentment 

Superior Attainers have an abnormally strong need for continuous accomplishment. Success does not bring them a sense of peace. They always see some other person who has more than then they do and scheme to overtake them. Super Attainers are impatient, dissatisfied and edgy when not engaged in activities that lead to the fulfillment of their goals. They seem psychologically unstable in this regard compared with others.
 


 

 

Two Types of SuperAttainers

I. Aristocratic SuperAttainers 

Pampered and pompous, these people excelled despite having been given it all. They attended the best schools and hobnobbed with the best minds. Because they are so deeply bonded to a successful elite, they are able to keep grounded when great success disrupts people sense of normality. They are less likely to lead themselves and their followers down the paths of mutual destruction. On the down-side, they are conservative and elitist. Real change seldom happens with these people in charge. 

 

Examples include: Winston Churchill, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great and Louis XIV.

II. Come-From-

Nothing SuperAttainers 

Rags to riches, these people pull themselves up through tremendous obstacles. Luck plays a role but most of their success is due to relentless force of character. Since they come from outside the establishment, they can be great agents of change. Unfortunately, they are prone to crash and burning when they inevitably overstretch themselves and their supporters. These people need to develop devoted relationships among powerful people who can keep them grounded. 

 

Examples include: Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Ferdinand Marcos.

 

 

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Profiles in Leadership Achievement

 SuperAttainer: Georgy Zhukov

 

 

 

 

Great Russian Military Commander:

 

Georgy Zhukov

 

 

 

 

Main Life Accomplishments:

 

He was a Soviet military commander who, in the course of World War II, led the Red Army to liberate the Soviet Union from the Axis Powers' occupation, to overrun much of Eastern Europe, and to capture Germany's capital, Berlin .

 

Basics:

 

Born: November 19 [O.S. December 1] 1896 in Strelkovka, Kaluga


Died: June 18, 1974 (78 years old) at Moscow


Nationality:  Russian 


Religion: 


Fields: Politics, Military


Main Accomplishments: He was the greatest military commander of the Second World War (Great Patriotic War). He had a true understanding of military art which most probably saved Russia, and the world, from fascism and tyranny.

 

Chronology of Life Events:

 

1896 

Birth of Georgy

 

1915 

He served first in the 106th Reserve Cavalry Regiment

 

1921

He received the Order of the Battle Red Banner for subduing the Tambov rebellion

 

1923

Zhukov was commander of a regiment, and in 1930 of a brigade.

 

1937-39

He survived Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the Red Army command

 

1938

Zhukov was directed to command the First Soviet Mongolian Army Group
Aug 15 1939 he ordered what seemed at first to be a conventional frontal attack.

 

1940

He was promoted to full general

 

Jun 22 1941

Zhukov signed the infamous Directive of Peoples' Commissariat of Defence No. 3

 

Oct 1941

Zhukov replaced Semyon Timoshenko in command of the central front

1942

Zhukov was made Deputy Commander-in-Chief

 

1943 

He orchestrated the first breakthrough of the German blockade of Leningrad. 

 

1944

He lifted the Siege of Leningrad

 

1947

He was sent to command the Odessa military district

 

Jul 29 1949

Zhukov was sacked from his post of Chief of the General Staff

 

1953 

Zhukov supported the post-Stalin Communist Party leadership

1957

Zhukov supported Khrushchev against his conservative enemies

 

Sep 28 1941 

Zhukov sent ciphered telegram No. 4976 to commanders of the Leningrad Front and Baltic Navy

 

1948

His apartments and house in Moscow were searched and many valuables looted in Germany were found

 

1954

Zhukov was in command of a nuclear weapon test at Totskoye range
Jun 18 1974 Death Of Georgy

Early Life:

 

Born into a poverty-stricken peasant family in Strelkovka, Maloyaroslavets Raion, Kaluga Guberniya (now Zhukovo Raion Kaluga Oblast), Zhukov was apprenticed to work as a furrier in Moscow, and in 1915 was conscripted into the army of the Russian Empire, where he served first in the 106th Reserve Cavalry Regiment, then the 10th Dragoon Novgorod RegimentDuring World War I, Zhukov was awarded the Cross of St. George twice and promoted to the rank of non-commissioned officer for his bravery in battle. He joined the Bolshevik Party after the October Revolution, and his background of poverty became an asset. After recovering from typhus he fought in the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921, at one time within 1st Cavalry Army. He received the Order of the Battle Red Banner for subduing the Tambov rebellion in 1921

 

Wife Background:

 

His wife is Galina Aleksandrovna.

 

Father Background:

 

His father is a shoemaker.

 

Mother Background:

His mother a farm worker.

 


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