Monday, April 18, 2011

One Key Requirement for Leadership is Lacking

Everywhere I look I see students reading books about leadership and Companies writing manuals about leadership. Everyone wants to be a leader. What would happen if EVERYONE succeeded in becoming a great leader? Allow  me to explain. We would be a nation of leaders with no followers.  We should be stressing what it means to become a great follower.  A leader is a director but a follower is a doer; an achiever.  If you lead then surely you are not the one doing but the one directing someone else who does the actual doing. A follower is capable of independent thinking "outside the box." If we were a nation of great followers we would not be so messed up. We are always looking for some clown of a leader to bail us out of our messes and when that fails we blame our mess on our leadership.  If the leader is not the one doing but the follower then how can the leader bear all the responsibility? 


If you were marooned on a desert island alone for 40 years then tell me what good would your leadership skills do you?  You would have to rely upon YOURSELF. You would have to be SELF-RELIANT.  Self-reliant people do not require as much supervision.  They do what is necessary and they do it correctly.


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