The Importance Of Leadership

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Leadership is one of the most talked about and least understood aspects of human behavior. There must be hundreds of definitions of leadership, yet none of them is useful for success in life because none of them allows you to 'create' leadership within your life. Why is that? Why isn't leadership one of those things you can go to school to learn, pick up through experience, or work on yourself to develop? First, you need to understand the false assumptions - the myths - about leadership. Then you'll come to realize that leadership is one of those things you can go to school to learn . . . if there were a school that knew how to teach it. You can pick it up through experience . . .if you know what leadership is and as importantly, what it…show more content…
Leadership is innate - you're either born with it or you're not. Absolutely false! Leadership consists of a set of skills that can be identified and learned. It's true that some people have a greater aptitude for leadership but all of us can be leaders and can build our leadership skills. 2. Leadership is charisma and style; it's the way we do things, not what we do. False. We'd all like to be charismatic and stylish, and many leaders are just that. But leadership is substance, not style. Leadership has to do with what we do and the impact we have on others. There have been great leaders who were dull as dust and others who have been charismatic. In our own time Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, is dull, "nerdy," and as uncharismatic as one can get, yet look at what he's led others to do and the impact he's had on Today's world. 3. There's no structure or system to leadership; it's situational. False. Not only is leadership - true leadership - structured and systematic, it can be duplicated again and again. Students in the Mastery Leadership program learn how to do this during the course of their study. Leadership has principles, skills that can be learned, and specific ways to get results. All those things are the building blocks of the successful accomplishment of goals, managing the aspects of our lives, and creating a life worth living. And if you can systemize it, you can duplicate
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