Self
development and growth into leadership
Quality
depends on your perceptions, how you deal with failures and strive to achieve.
Today’s
businesses require more and more leaders, and it is not easy task finding
leaders- many may want to lead but not all can lead. The fact of the matter is
that leadership is a quality that one is not born into but is developed. It
depends on your perceptions, how you deal with failures and how you strive for
achievements.
The human
mind is extremely powerful but sadly, this secret is not revealed to us for
numerous reasons. What makes each person unique depends on the way one has been
exposed to the world, including one’s family, friends and relatives; the
environment; social and economic circumstances; and ideology/belief system you
grew up with all contribute to influence your mind and body to react in a
certain way, and you get used to it. But it is not difficult to break this
pattern and become a leader.
As the famous author Robin Sharma puts it: lead
without title.
The first
thing you can do is inculcate in yourself a belief system which says “ I can
achieve it” and then prepare others around you – your staff, your colleagues or
even managers to believe in this and gradually build up a collective
consciousness of winning.
Once the
mind is set – now called a winning mind, you have essentially become a leader
in the making without a title. But there will be challenges on your way to
achieving what you want or your desired corporate goal. And although it may
seem impossible to achieve the beginning, it is easy.
A research
made on great minds like that of Gandhi, Mandela, Lincoln, Einstein, etc. show
they had one thing in common - they all had a questioning in mind. They
questioned themselves when they faced failure instead of brooding: why did it
happen? Working at the root cause of a problem and eradicating it; asking how
success can be achieved; what the plan is, and arriving at procedure are valid
points to consider.
Once you
rise above the petty politics, learn to lead and study the lives of these extraordinary
persons and you will discover each of them started with a failure or an unhappy
situation in life, but they either fought the situation or learned from it. So
you can too.
Career Tips:
· The formation of personality is influenced
by the environment.
· Inculcate in yourself the belief that
you can achieve anything.
· Emulate the lives of extraordinary
leaders; learn from mistakes.
