Leader

Per se, it is easy to complete a given task exceptionally well. To stand first too is achievable. Dedication, hard work, commitment could take you there. But being successful alone doesn’t make one a good leader.

While taking up a project, you shouldn’t just pick the work/inventories. You also take up the personalities of people who are to work under you. It is your moral responsibility as a leader to help people challenge their own potentials and achieve new heights.

You would have heard of Ayn Rand – Mother of Objectivism. I like Ayn Rand’s concept of Objectivism but not completely. Objectivism in a nutshell is –‘ If you are skilled- it is your duty to do a splendid work in your life and you are not to worry about the weak’.

Might be that Ayn Rand – aimed her writing at CEOs and Managers and not leaders. CEOS/Managers who competed against their peers and wanted to move up the ladder and CEOs/Managers who carried their professional growth the whole time in their head.

Most surprising outcome of many surveys asking employees to point out one thing that they would like to see in their leader is… Guess what?.... ….It is ‘Leader should be INSPIRATIONAL’. What do you think of this? What makes one inspirational?

It is not the knowledge, efficiency, experience alone but a collage of all. It is indeed a mix of all. A very, very talented individual. Ok, then? Have we arrived at the Leader, we were searching for - a very talented individual. No, not at all, indeed we have a long way to go. We have probably arrived at Ayn Rand’s definition of Leaders.

That final fitting piece that is missing to make a LEADER is the emotional aspect of a person. i.e., a person’s personality. Outlook, ability to handle tension/pressure, attitude towards success/failure, people skill – How one respects others feelings, ability, experience.

On the whole who wants to excel himself and grow from whatever he is now . Leader is one who compares his present with the past of his. Not the one who compares his present with the present of others.

Leader is one who doesn’t pat his back for what he is and ridicules others for what he could not achieve. It is one who strives hard every moment to grow not expecting acceptable outcomes alone all the time.

Leader who is content when his team grows as individuals. You think, he doesn’t grow. Success can be shared, one need not be so possessive of it. A leader is discovered.

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