Who is a leader?
A leader must have three characteristics.
1.
He is not a static but a moving personality
2.
He goes before his followers
3.
He has a troop of followers
4.
He leads his followers to new heights.
He is not a static but a moving personality
A leader must be ready to leave his comfort
zone and move to unknown horizons. To remain comfortable where we already are, need
no leader. Comfort zone offers no challenge. Moving out is facing new
challenges. A leader is a person who is not satisfied with what he has already
achieved. He looks beyond the present and sees new horizons to conquer. He is
adventurous and thirsty for new victories. So he moves and never rest. Moving
is life for him and rest is death. A leader is not satiate with any victory. He
always sees more mountains to conquer.
He goes before his followers
A leader should take the risk of going before
his followers. He is not a pusher but a puller; he does not push his followers
to move forward but pulls his men along with him as he moves. So he has to go
in front of others. He has confidence in himself. He is overflows with positive
energy. He knows no fear and never gives space to ‘ifs’.
He is always:
1.
Ready to take the risk of moving to unknown
regions.
2.
Must be confident of the success of the move
3.
Ready to take the responsibility of the move
He has a troop of followers
What a leader without followers? Followers are
a group of people who have decided to follow the leader without any persuasion
except that of the vision of the leader. They are natural gathering not hired laborers.
It does not mean that the troop of followers should not include hired
employees. A leader of a business firm may have a many hired employees, but all
of them are not his followers. Some of them are convinced of the vision of the
leader and start following his dreams forgetting all about their wages. They
need wages for their living, but they follow the leader because of his vision. This
small group is the real follower. A true leader has always such a group of
followers with him.
He leads his followers to new heights
A leader is one who leads others to new
heights. A leader is not a person who maintains the status quo. Still moving is
not enough. He must take all his followers along with him as he moves forward.
He is not a lonely warrior, but the commander of a troop. Every war is fought
with his followers; every conquest is made with his followers. He never moves
alone, but with his faithful leaders. He never reaches a new height without his
followers. His victory is always shared with his men. Without his followers he
might not have conquered the new mountain of success. He never stands alone on
the victory stand; his victory stand belongs to his followers also.
He carries his followers as he goes forward.
A leader is not a private entity, but a public
entity among his followers.
Further reading:
Legendary Leaders @ http://professorjacobabraham.blogspot.in/2013/01/legendary-leaders.html
The Shepherd Leader @ http://professorjacobabraham.blogspot.in/2013/01/the-shepherd-leader.html
Professor
Jacob Abraham
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