Council and Leadership

True leadership is not determined by ranks or positions. Leadership is something that comes from within and is the essence of one’s decision to be a leader, both for him/herself, for his/her family, for his or her working environment, as well as for social environment and even for his/her country.

Leadership is a decision and a result of process of internal character transformation in a person. Leadership is not position or title, but a birth of a long process in a person changes. When someone found a vision and mission of his life, when there is inner peace (inner peace) and form a solid character building, when every utterance and action began to give effect to the environment, and when its existence encourages changes in the organization, that is when a person is born a leader true. So the leader is not just a title or position is given from the outside but something that grows and develops from within oneself.
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As a leader and manager, someone responsible for the results obtained by others, are you the boss you need to be? Are you getting the best from your people, and from those you need but don’t control? Are you fully satisfying the ever-rising expectations of your firm and its customers?

Equally important, are you meeting your own expectations? How would you like to work to develop yourself? Are you good enough to achieve your own aspirations? Are you ready for increased responsibility?
These are critical questions all bosses must ask if they want to be fully effective. Why? The two of us have spent nearly 60 years in total studying and practicing management, and again and again we’ve made a troubling observation: Most managers grow and develop to a certain point, and then they stop. They reach the “Plateau of Good Enough.” Perhaps they struggled at first as new managers, but they quickly learned how it’s done in their organizations, how to cope with the challenges they typically face every day, and they’ve come to feel comfortable.
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