We discuss leadership on voice of change because we were all born to be leaders. We may not feel like we were born to be leaders, we may not feel like the seed of leadership is in us at all, but everyone of us is a leader in one sphere of life or another , or at one time in life or another.
You look at yourself and wonder, me, a leader? Who is a leader?
A leader is someone who can mobilize people, resources, material resources, financial resources, goodwill, favor towards achieving a stated objective. So you see that even if you just organize traffic at a point, at that point you are being a leader. So many people that you have obeyed in traffic, you never even ask “who asked him to get on the road and begin to direct traffic?” but you obey without question. Why? He put himself forward at that time and volunteered his services to make sure chaos was averted. He stepped forward at that time, that was his time of leadership.
When a leader externalizes failure and points a finger at uncontrollable external factor, what he’s saying to the public and their perception of the public, of his organization and of himself, is that, I have no control over these forces that created failure. Immediately you think that if you have no control then you might not have any control next week, next year, and in times to come. But when a leader owns the failure, and says our own internal processes caused the failure, the first thing is you believe. He’s honest, that you believe he would admit this fault he is a man of integrity, if anything major should happen, he would let us know. This woman, this man is up to the task.
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