Leadership

Leadership is the ability to lead others by influence. If this principle holds true, then we have all exercised some degree of leadership in our lives. Maybe the experience wasn't running a company or governing a state, but perhaps it was the influence of one friend to another, or as a parent on a child, a spouse on a family, a teacher on students, a pastor on a congregation, a manager on subordinate or a politician on his constituents.

• Leadership can also be seen simply as responding to responsibility.

• Leaders are not gift but results.

What makes a leader

Leaders are not born, but made. Everyone has the capacity and potential to become a leader.

Purpose

• The foundational key to becoming a leader is the discovering and capturing of a sense of purpose for your life. Purpose is the original intent, a reason for the creation or existence of a thing.

Passion

• Life without purpose is a study in chaos and an exercise in frustration. Purpose provides the fuel for perseverance, persistence and passion

Integrity

• This involves self-knowledge, candor, and maturity.

• Candor is the key to self-knowledge. It is also based on honesty of thought and action, a steadfast devotion to principle, and fundamental soundness and wholeness

Trust

• Trust is a product of time and integrity. Leadership are individuals whose characters have been tested, proven and established as being faithful and trustworthy.

• Trustworthiness is the foundation of trust. To become an effective leader you must earn the trust and confidence of others

Curiosity and daring

• Leaders are willing to change traditions, experiment with new ideas and explore. A leader is willing to take risk, he does not worry about failure, knowing he will learn from it.

Difference between leaders and managers

It is important that these Concepts are understood because there are many situations you have manager have been mistaken for leaders and placed in positions in which they are unable to function and

There are four types of people in the word;

• Those who watch things happen

• Those who let things happen

• Those who asked what happened

• Those who make things happen

Leaders are those who make things happen. Managers are in the the other groups. Leaders are those who master the context, managers are those who surrender to it.

Study the list below and check your leadership state:

• The manager administers, the leader innovates.

• The manager is a copy, the leader is an original.

• The manager maintains, the leader develops.

• The manager Focuses on system and structure, the leader Focuses on people.

• The manager has a short range view, the leader has a long-range perspective.

• The manager relies on control, the leader inspires trust.

• The manager asks how and when, the leaders ask what and why.

• The manager has his eyes on the bottom line, is it that has his eyes on the horizon.

• The manager imitate, the leader originates.

• The manager accept the status quo, the leader challenges it.

• The manager is the classical good Soldier, the leader is his own person.

• The manager does things right, the leaders does the right thing.

Conclusion

Leaders are individuals who have declared independence from the expectations of others. Therefore a true leader is more concerned with development rather than employment. To a leader life is an adventure

True leadership sets followers free to be led.