Born to Lead…

Hype you guys! Miss me? Ah, save it to yourself, I don’t need it. Haha, back to the title, you over there, are you a leader? How about the other you? No? Not sure? Murtabak ah? Just kidding, how you guys define leadership? Is it Mr. President of our club a leader or just a manager that tries to look good in front the public? Come, let us see few opinions and mine as well.
Alan Keith of Genentech who said "Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen."(Hmm, sort of). Other than that, leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person is able to enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. There have been a lot of related theories regarding the true definition of leadership but for me, leader is actually a person that led not only a group of people but himself to accomplish something big in his life. You see, a leader should not only be in a big organization but it’s already in yourself as you can exhibit the quality of a leader.
It is just damn hard to be a true leader, why you ask me? It is because there are no real guidelines (or Leadership for Dummies book) for us to determine the pathway of a leader to grow and develop. In lament term, there is no benchmark for us to see who has the potential of leader among us. Nevertheless, we, of course, have 2 kind of leader in this world. One, he or she will like to see us in suffer just to fulfill his or her wishes. The other one will try his or her best to reduce the impact and maximize the profit for not only him or her but the rest of us.
Besides, I believe a leader should know the value of right, wrong, good and bad. It is totally wrong when you equate the value of right to good and wrong to bad. Somehow, you feel in certain part of your life, there are things you done are good but it is wrong and vice versa. A leader should know about this more than anybody because it is going to determine your status of leadership. Of course, this also another aspect that separates a leader from a manager.
A leader also has to touch the heart of other people because they are capable to do that. My father always said to me, a leader is a good listener. Leader has the tendency of being street counselor whom most people will get the help from him or her regarding any problem. The leader that done this before throughout his world conquest is Alexander the Great who always visits his soldier camp to hear them out and compare number of scars in the battlefield. This also shows that he has a great social skill as well. I think that’s all folks or I’ll be late for my class. Yikes, chow first!