Leadership is a Decision

Leadership is not something you are born with and is not an inherited trait. It's something you decide to do. 

Good leadership is a decision that builds on a combination--a synthesis--of wisdom, intelligence and creativity. According to this view, there are two differentiable elements that are really important. The first is skills and the other is attitude. To be a good leader you have to know how to do things, but attitude is at least as important or more important. The way you think about problems and your attitude toward those problems is as essential as your ability to solve them.

When you take a leadership role, whether as chairman of a company or as a leader in your family, you need ideas. You need creative skills and attitudes to come up with those ideas. You need analytical skills and attitudes to decide whether they are good ideas. You need practical skills and attitudes to put them into practice and to persuade people to listen to you. And finally you need wisdom to balance the effects of your ideas on yourself, others and institutions, in both the short and long term.

Good leadership is in a large part a decision. It's something you can decide to do; something we can all decide to do.


For more, see - http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/22/robert-jeffrey-sternberg-leadership-managing-varghese.html?boxes=Homepagechannels

Leadership is a Decision