ARE LEADERS BORN OR MADE?
This will help you know if you are leadership material, many times people are lost in the admiration of people who have leveraged the gift of talent and the labor of process to become highly rewarded by society, these are the kind of people we call leaders. People chart the course for industry, people, or generation.
I will be helping you discover if can ever become one of those people you now admire.
What is leadership?
I define leadership as the capacity to create or manage change and inspire a positive response to change in one’s personal life and the lives of another individual without deploying the means of brute force or manipulation.
Here are some words to note
Capacity: someone's ability to do a particular thing1
Inspire: To breathe into: to fill with breath; to animate2
Leadership is one’s ability to give life, hope, and meaning to another person to help them respond positively to a new idea, incident, or occurrence.
Since we both have the same understanding of what leadership is let’s now answer this intriguing question, are leaders born or made?
Scenario 1
Can you please imagine a newborn baby for a moment? Let me ask you a question is this baby a leader i.e. can this baby inspire a positive response to change in his/her personal life and the lives of other individuals without deploying the means of brute forces or manipulation?
Birth does not determine an individual’s capacity to lead or not lead.
This, therefore, means your nationality, gender, age, or any other natural circumstance has nothing to do with your potential to cause positive change in the lives of people.
Although, this child might grow up to discover his/her has some natural traits or potential for leadership this doesn’t automatically qualify he/she as a leader. This is because talent and gifts are raw are unrefined. You see potential can never be enough! While I was in high school for a while I was performing poorly academically although I knew I could do far much better this knowledge did not change my result automatically. Also, crude oil has the potential to be petrol but potential cannot power your generator at night. You see a man might be born with leadership potential but this does not automatically qualify he/she as a leader.
Scenario 2
The story is told of two brothers who grew up in an abusive home and had a father who was a chain smoker. Years after one of the sons ended up a chain smoker and the other became successful, when they were asked the reason for their conditions both of them said it was because of their father. The smoker son said the father didn’t raise them well and that was the reason for his condition, the successful son said because of what their father put them through he vowed never to become like their father. Same condition different result
Also, have you ever tried to mentor a young lad or lass that is unwilling to yield? How successful were you? I guess you realized that you could lead a horse to the water but you could never force it to drink.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/capacity
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Leaders are born naturally but must be made by adversity
God bless you for this Sir
Hmmm. "Leaders are born naturally but must be born again by adversity."
Being Born Again overrides the "Negativity" in the first birth and Optimises the potentials present during original design.
Great Thought!