Spirit of Leadership

THE HIDDEN LEADER IN YOU the evidence has always defied this belief, showing that people are most productive and cooperative when they are inspired rather than manipulated by leadership. Myth #5 Leadership Is the Result of Special Training This is the belief that leaders are produced through spe cial educational courses and training. Many people feel that they have to have an MBA or attend leadership conferences in order to be able to lead others. There’s nothing wrong with such training, in itself. Yet as I wrote in the Introduction, true leadership is not a technique, a method, a style, or the acqui sition of skills. It is the manifestation of an attitude based on the knowledge of who you were born to be. Your attitude about yourself has a tremendous impact on your daily life and whether you fulfill your central life purpose. W E SHOULD NEVER LET ANYBODY GET THE IDEA THAT WE DON ’ T HAVE WILLS OF OUR OWN . We have allowed circumstances, other people, and our own unsubstantiated beliefs to block our natural leadership tendencies. We should never allow anybody to get the idea that we don’t have a will or some sense of point of view or unique perspective of our own. Others may be in positions of author ity over us, which we should respect, but that doesn’t mean that they should stifle our inherent potential as leaders. In this book, I will introduce an alternative philosophy of leadership that challenges the above theories and traditional concepts of leadership potential. I call this theory the “inher ent nature of leadership.”

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