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What then is a Leadership???!!!???

Leadership is not rocket science, its just a quality that is within each and everyone of us.
‘Nobody is born as a leader, but everybody just have it in them to become one’, its just a quality and the attitude that one has to develop in order to be a great leader.

The following is the profile of ‘three’ world leaders who lived in the same period of history and is it possible to choose the best one using the following data:

Candidate A was associated with witchdoctors and often consulted astrologists. He had two mistresses. His wife was a Lesbian. He smoked a lot. He drank eight to ten martinis a day.

Candidate B never managed to hold down a job because of his arrogance. He slept the whole morning. He used opium at school, and was always considered a bad student. He drank a glass of brandy every morning.

Candidate C was decorated a hero. A vegetarian, he did not smoke. His discipline was exemplary. He occasionally drank a beer. He stayed with the same woman during his moments of glory and defeat.

And do you know who they were….. They are none other than,

A] Franklin Delano Roosevelt. B] Winston Churchill. C] Adolf Hitler.

So what then is leadership? The encyclopedia defines it as an individual’s capacity to motivate others to seek the same objective. The bookstores are full of texts on this theme, and the leaders are normally portrayed in brilliant colors, with enviable qualities and supreme ideals. The leader is to society as the “master” is to spirituality. This, however, is not absolutely true (in either case).

Our big problem, especially in a world that is growing more and more fundamentalist, is not allowing people in prominent positions to commit human mistakes. We are always in search of the perfect ruler. We are always looking for a leader to guide and help us find our way. The truth is that the great revolutions and the progress made by humanity were brought about by people just like you and me – the only difference being that they had the courage to make a key decision at a crucial moment.

Each and every one have it in himself to be a great leader, and the difference is only in the way you think and act. As the saying goes ‘you become what you think you are’, just have a positive frame set of mind and be ready to raise above the tide and rule the world. And most importantly don’t forget that only a good follower can turn out to be a good leader, so always be a good follower and you would obviously turn into a great leader.

So all you leaders out there, get well equipped and get set to rock and roll this universe.