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Leaders are successful in leading people to success or even greatness because they know how to lead and they have the ability to identify and utilize their followers talents. They are available to guide and are able to prepare others for leadership. Some people are born with this inherent talent, while others invest in themselves through constant growth, learning and discipline to attain such qualities.
Peter Drucker had this to say about leadership, “Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things”.
Elaine Agather had a lot of ways to put leadership into perspective. She said, “The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it”.
President Woodrow Wilson said, “The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people”. How true that statement is. President Wilson knew it would take a great leader to lead the country and in order to lead successfully, he knew he had to hear the people he represented.
President Theodore Roosevelt, a great leader in his own right once said, “The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it”. What a wonderful quote for management and leaders. One of the greatest hardships companies or corporations can face is when they have no one to lead because everyone appears to be too chummy with the others to successfully pull off leading the pack.
Andrew Carnegie, successful business man and entrepreneur who helped build more libraries through his generosity than anyone else can take credit for doing once said, “The first one gets the oyster, the second one gets the shell.” He probably had a lot of oysters in his lifetime. He also said, “A man who dies rich, dies disgraced” and many have never understood that statement”. He did die rich even though he gave away millions of dollars for libraries and other notable and charitable donations.
Robert Half made a good point for individuals in leadership positions to note. He said, “Delegating work works, providing the one delegating works, too”.
Leading others is a difficult task. You never know if you lead whether anyone will follow. You don’t know if you will lead right when you should have led left. However, a leader will lead and never question their own abilities or wonder if they even made the right decisions because once they decide to do something, they do it. They lead in the direction they intend for others to follow and the people who follow the leader never stop to wonder if they know where the leaders know which direction they are headed.
