Well friends,before i start off,i want you frame a mental picture of a leader(in any field) and the qualities that he/she possesses.Hmm..let me guess.You could have thought of a person,
1)who appears to be good looking.
2)an extrovert.
3)whom you might feel has certain characteristics that you don't possess.
4)makes the right decision 99% of the time.
5)a trademarked diplomat.
6)a person maintaining a high degree of decency and decorum.
7)an etiquette.
The list goes on and on,which of course means that each person has a different view on leadership.This intrigues my mind to think about the question,"Are leaders really born?","Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon?","Are leaders infallible?" and "Don't the ordinary people stand a chance to become a leader?".Hmm...
I don't really understand what people try to say when they say "He's a great leader machi!!Born leader.Just like his father.You can only dream of becoming such a guy"..."Huh???" "Is he right??"(I ask myself )..Maybe or maybe not..But personally i feel that leaders are never really born.Now,lets go back to the school days when we used to have small gangs with sum macho leaders for each gang.The leader would usually be strong and tall.All he does is bully small kids,argues or talks back to the teachers and enjoys the support that his friends give.This goes on from one generation to another.This is acceptable as we were kids at that time and didn't have a mature mind and worldly knowledge to arrive at a proper conclusion.Lets call this period "Stage 1".
So as years went by we started to have our own perception and views on leadership.Again what we did was,we blindly accepted others opinion on leadership and made it a part of our 'understanding of leadership'.Which made it much more complex for a person to even consider himself/herself becoming a leader.This is the time i felt that many of them erred.Instead,these people should have analyzed the features,characteristics that he/she requires to manage at least say a small group of people and started working on it rather than portraying his/her leader as an equivalent to god.This period can be called as "Stage 2".
Even after stage 1 and stage 2 if still the person feels that he/she becoming a leader is a humbug.He/she can try "Stage 3"..The stages keep coming..he..he.I strongly feel that any person can become a leader at any point of time.You can't call it as a stroke of luck or fate.If a person after say 30 years of ordinary life becomes a leader it just means that that person has realized and worked on the steps to become an effective leader.Its all about realization, understanding, adaptation, confidence and all the other basic stuff,which every single person in the world can develop at any point of time in his/her life.
Now going back to the questions that i asked in the beginning..Leaders are never really born.Its just that that person(leader) took early steps at an early period of his/her life to become a leader when others were probably wandering off doing other things.So as time went by he/she knew how to influence people better than any one else.Another general misconception is that when people say "He is a leader just like his father".It only means that the person was easily able to learn many leadership qualities from his/her father and make it part of his/her system.So there is a high chance of that person's action to have a similar style or effect just like his/her fathers'.Even the leaders might make mistakes in life(as it is human to err) but they will remain as a leader until they know how to remain as one.
Finally i conclude by saying that, leaders are not born(as a child) but are only born when they realize(self-realization) and try becoming one.
1)who appears to be good looking.
2)an extrovert.
3)whom you might feel has certain characteristics that you don't possess.
4)makes the right decision 99% of the time.
5)a trademarked diplomat.
6)a person maintaining a high degree of decency and decorum.
7)an etiquette.
The list goes on and on,which of course means that each person has a different view on leadership.This intrigues my mind to think about the question,"Are leaders really born?","Is it a naturally occurring phenomenon?","Are leaders infallible?" and "Don't the ordinary people stand a chance to become a leader?".Hmm...
I don't really understand what people try to say when they say "He's a great leader machi!!Born leader.Just like his father.You can only dream of becoming such a guy"..."Huh???" "Is he right??"(I ask myself )..Maybe or maybe not..But personally i feel that leaders are never really born.Now,lets go back to the school days when we used to have small gangs with sum macho leaders for each gang.The leader would usually be strong and tall.All he does is bully small kids,argues or talks back to the teachers and enjoys the support that his friends give.This goes on from one generation to another.This is acceptable as we were kids at that time and didn't have a mature mind and worldly knowledge to arrive at a proper conclusion.Lets call this period "Stage 1".
So as years went by we started to have our own perception and views on leadership.Again what we did was,we blindly accepted others opinion on leadership and made it a part of our 'understanding of leadership'.Which made it much more complex for a person to even consider himself/herself becoming a leader.This is the time i felt that many of them erred.Instead,these people should have analyzed the features,characteristics that he/she requires to manage at least say a small group of people and started working on it rather than portraying his/her leader as an equivalent to god.This period can be called as "Stage 2".
Even after stage 1 and stage 2 if still the person feels that he/she becoming a leader is a humbug.He/she can try "Stage 3"..The stages keep coming..he..he.I strongly feel that any person can become a leader at any point of time.You can't call it as a stroke of luck or fate.If a person after say 30 years of ordinary life becomes a leader it just means that that person has realized and worked on the steps to become an effective leader.Its all about realization, understanding, adaptation, confidence and all the other basic stuff,which every single person in the world can develop at any point of time in his/her life.
Now going back to the questions that i asked in the beginning..Leaders are never really born.Its just that that person(leader) took early steps at an early period of his/her life to become a leader when others were probably wandering off doing other things.So as time went by he/she knew how to influence people better than any one else.Another general misconception is that when people say "He is a leader just like his father".It only means that the person was easily able to learn many leadership qualities from his/her father and make it part of his/her system.So there is a high chance of that person's action to have a similar style or effect just like his/her fathers'.Even the leaders might make mistakes in life(as it is human to err) but they will remain as a leader until they know how to remain as one.
Finally i conclude by saying that, leaders are not born(as a child) but are only born when they realize(self-realization) and try becoming one.
3 comments:
Hi, dude, welcome to bloggging, all of ur posts were really rivetting, keep it going, very lucid and spontaneous..
@ragesh
Hey thx man..I will come up with more ..
we've already discussed this .. A Leader is one who takes the initiative .. A guy who sits back and does nothing will never become a leader ..
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