I learnt early in my life that if you actually want to achieve greatness in life, one of the major things you must actually learn to master is the act of leadership. I learnt that early in my life and I have actually been taking some certain steps to actually increase my leadership skills by reading book. Recently, there is a book I read that actually changes a whole lot of things about me and my leadership ability which I really want to share with us today.
Most of the time, we always think about leader as people that are born to be a leader but that is not really true. Leaders are not born but they are really built and most of the time, it is that process of been built that many of us lack to actually understand. We have always hear about the word exemplary leader in every aspect of our life but we hardly understand what it truly means. Reading this book opened my eyes to a whole lot of things which I really want to share with us all.
The author who is Mr Joshua helps to explain leadership that it flows from personal examples to others. If there is actually something that the book opened my eyes to see, it is the fact that every leader must lead by example. Whether you are a believer or not, whether you are a leader in the church or in the secular sector, every leader must be able to lead by example.
The reason why a lot of leaders are not getting result from their leadership as many people have claim is the fact that they also try to tell people something's to do but they themselves are not really doing it. Take for example in the Christian faith, the book opened my eyes to see why we have a lot of pastors but actually few impacts in the church because even those pastors are not really creating impact in their lives. So whenever they are actually telling people to do something, they are just saying it as they are not actually living the life. It is something quite so disheartening I must confess.
The book also talks about the fact that one of the things that will actually make us to look so distinct is the fact that we stop seeing that leaders are born. Nobody is born with leadership skills, we grew to it. That is the mistake a whole lot of people are making actually. They always think it is been born with it and some times when some people should be in the class of leadership, they quickly look down on themselves thinking they are not really worthy of it. In fact, one of the things the book opened my eyes to is the fact that a lot of people will learn leadership along the way. That is how it should be.
The book major theme is the fact that it emphasis on character before charisma. Most of the time also in this present age, we are actually tempted to pick leaders based on the charisma. Charisma is not enough, we should also look into their character if not we will continue to choose wrong leaders. Not everyone that has charisma is worthy to actually lead, we should be able to choose our leaders not necessarily because of the money they have or the ideas they have but because of the good character they have.
The second theme that the book talks about which I have also mentioned earlier is the fact that service as a status in leadership. Many people did not really understand the importance service. It is service first before you actually expect people to really lead you, you must be able to lead others and make sure you lead effectively as early as possible.
There is also something that the leadership really talks about which really touched me and that is the fact that accountability and submission is really important. Every leader that wants to lead must be able to actually welcome correction,babe able to submit to their mentors and also be able to practice transparency. The early the better it is actually. There is actually something that leadership talks about and that is the fact that we should be able to multiply leaders through mentorship. What the book makes me to understand is the fact that every leader must be able to mentor other leaders so that they can raise other leaders.
I will actually recommend everyone to read this book. Whether you are a leader or you are still a follower, you should actually read the book because it will really change a whole lot of things about you that you might not see now. The issue is even those followers will soon become a leader and the issue is when they become a leader, they are not trained so they actually failed woefully.