The Courage to be a Leader

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Leadership qualities are present in each of us because we have the potential to be strong and influential leaders. If a seed doesn't find the right environment, it will only be left with the potential to be a plant. If our potential is not used then we will remain at this stage all our lives. I don't know if you are happy with the life you have, personally I wish for more. I want to grow personally, to better myself and to be professional in my field. If we agree that each of us has this potential that is now dormant then what makes leaders so different from other people? I think the difference is not so much the major difference as it is the open and proactive attitude a leader has. The leader is constantly looking for ideas, for new, useful things. This is what makes him different, the ability to embrace a doctrine of the new which he uses for positive purposes as part of the goals of the organisation he leads. The portrait I paint of the authentic leader is no more and no less than the image of an ideal leader, the sum of the qualities that I believe a leader should have. Perhaps this ideal is far from what we see in our political or social leaders, but we will discover in them many of the qualities presented in the book. Leaders are survivors, they know how to stay ahead and have learned to do things immediately, well and with quality. They have learned to see the organisation they lead as an important part of their lives. They don't see themselves as bosses or paid managers but as architects, people who are shaping a future for themselves and their team members and organisation. There is much to be said and I leave it to those who read this book to discover in turn the laws presented and, why not, to discover themselves. I invite you to read these laws and write down in a notebook the valuable things you find here because leadership always starts from core values. If we don't have a set of values to believe in and fight for, then we will never become leaders.