The purpose of leadership
I will like to share this extract:
The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the old-age question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of "optimism training" is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light. Through repeated counseling and coaching, you might be able to make a person less pessimistic then she was before, but "less pessimistic" is not synonymous with "optimistic", any more than "less rude" is not synonymous with "charming". To lead effectively, you must be unfailingly, unrealistically, even irrationally optimistic. Like it or not, this is not learnable.
This is from a book i am reading right now "The One Thing You Need to Know ...about great managing, great leading and sustained individual success" By Marcus Buckingham.
Ralph Nader said:
"The purpose of leadeship is to create more leaders
not more followers!"
How do we distill our passion, compentecies and leader capacity to fulfil this goal?
Hugs
The necessity for leaders to possess optimism and ego serves to answer the old-age question: Are leaders born or are they made? They are born. A leader is born with an optimistic disposition or she is not. If she is not, then no amount of "optimism training" is going to make her view the world in an overwhelmingly positive, opportunistic light. Through repeated counseling and coaching, you might be able to make a person less pessimistic then she was before, but "less pessimistic" is not synonymous with "optimistic", any more than "less rude" is not synonymous with "charming". To lead effectively, you must be unfailingly, unrealistically, even irrationally optimistic. Like it or not, this is not learnable.
This is from a book i am reading right now "The One Thing You Need to Know ...about great managing, great leading and sustained individual success" By Marcus Buckingham.
Ralph Nader said:
"The purpose of leadeship is to create more leaders
not more followers!"
How do we distill our passion, compentecies and leader capacity to fulfil this goal?
Hugs
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