Most
of the leaders are the leaders for the namesake, because when the time comes to
shoulder the responsibilities of a critical nature, they shy away. Giving various excuses, they sneak away, when
in reality, at that particular time, their leadership roles were very much
needed. If you are ready to own responsibilities and act to lead your team, the
same is the benchmark of a prolific, trustworthy and a conscious leader. People
may be wise, knowledgeable, qualified,
well behaved and fond of mixing with people and despite all these qualities;
they are not spontaneous to give effective leadership to their communities. The
reason lies that they are afraid of failures to discharge the said
responsibilities. The leaders can only
provoke and enthuse you to take corrective steps to achieve success in various
spheres of your life. All the persons whom you get in touch in your younger
days, are your leaders. They may be your
parents or teachers or even your friends.
You follow them, emulate them and contemplate to do something big in
life. Apart from these leaders, who are
at your disposal, some of the younger people copy various celebrities from
different professions. That is not a bad idea, but that leadership role is on
the basis of presumption and it has no personal touch. Why people don’t like to lead? The reason is that success requires
risk-taking, maintaining moral and ideal values and taking drastic actions to pursue all types of innovative thinking,
which are mostly outside the box. All
these values will be quashed, if leadership is subdued and not averse to taking
calculative risks. For taking a role of
an effective leader, you don’t have to trumpet your bugle, you have only to show your desire and power to protect your
people, extend your help when they are in danger and show the right direction,
so that they are able to cross any impediments making obstacles to them. Being responsible means, one is strong enough
and have courage to take initiatives, love to take decisions with all maturities,
but not on the basis of reckless ideas, have enough integrity and living up to
your inner values. From the spiritual
point of view, the real leader must show his spirits to guide his group on the
path of higher consciousness.
You
cannot become a leader suddenly. It is
true that without some distinct qualities, one cannot be an effective
leader. But at the same time, you have
to hone your qualities and practice to follow the various steps by which, you
show your agility, capabilities, knowledge, dedication and willingness to share
the burden of very many responsibilities and then only, you will be considered
to impart the highest values of your vision of leadership. A leader must
possess many traits and also has to acquire additional credentials to prove his
effectiveness. Chronologically, they are------
a) His
actions must have a proper meaning and they must be the beneficiary of many.
b) He
should preach the things, which he does. If he fails to do so, he is not a true
leader.
c) Instead
of applying cunnings, he must delegate the
things, which can be discharged by others at ease. In this process, he should not shirk away his
responsibilities.
d) He
should not keep henchmen to get the dirty jobs on behalf of him.
e) His protégées must depend on him, so that during
bad phase, they can get his guidance.
f) To
treat all people on the same platform. To a leader, there should not be any nepotism
and fervor for a person of particular classes and section.
g) A
true leader believes completely in integrity. He does not like to deal in with
any things unscrupulously.
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He
wants to keep his record upright with respect to financial transactions. If you
follow the principles and become successful to prove yourself as a trustworthy
person, people will then, become loyal to you and they will be captivated with
all your idealism. Leaders must
ascertain one fact that their followers should not be feeling unsecured, because
the same creates stresses and from these stresses, problems arise. At the same
time, the leaders must be realistic and practical. We must understand that the leaders are also
human beings. Though they may have some extraordinary qualities, they have to
shoulder additional responsibilities, but they have to balance their activities
in between their own and society. For example, in any business house, the
responsibilities of a business owner should not exaggerate the profits only, but
he should show his willingness to ensure that his enterprise or the company
must fulfill the social values and causes, namely distributing some of his
earnings to the destitute, to see his employees, particularly the less
qualified one gets further education and also to contribute for the welfare of
the underprivileged sections of the society.
But today, most of the business houses and their leaders barring a few
are more focused to increase their net worth.
Except to construct a few temples and give donations for some religious activities,
their leadership role is very limited.
They are more busy with their own state of affairs despite the fact that
they are the most ideal people to shoulder more responsibilities and take
leadership roles.
From
an effective leadership point of view, there is
concept of leading from the Soul, which indicates you take responsibilities more than
what people need from you. As a leader,
you must take care of everyone’s personal growth. This particular sense of
leadership must begin with your own evolution. In a life, you are guided by
your thoughts, emotions, perception, personal relationships, socioeconomic
influence, environment, speech and the body. In all these areas, your
attitudinal behavior affects the people whom you lead or contemplate to
lead. If you moderate your behavior,
your followers will also do the same. To lead from the Soul or influenced by
your intrinsic thoughts to lead your people sincerely, your own evolution must
be one of the fundamental strong points of your character. You have to refrain yourself from doing
unscrupulous things and create doubts in the minds of your followers just to
avoid their criticism. You should avoid any unwanted things so that they
undermine you. As a leader, you must cultivate your strength and hone the same as
a new opportunity for your growth, so that your followers can emulate the
same. From your continued evolution, you
draw your power to lead others without any selfish motto. As long as you love to carry out this role in an
unbiased way and ceaselessly, you will be termed as a real and a true leader.
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