Spirit of Leadership

THE SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP IT’S ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE

The essence of leadership, again, is not in techniques for controlling and manipulating people, which seem to be popular in leadership training today. All the college courses in business administration you may take, all the leadership methods you learn, and all the management seminars you attend can give you information, but they cannot develop you into a real leader.

T HE ESSENCE OF LEADERSHIP IS NOT IN TECHNIQUES ; IT ’ S IN OUR ATTITUDES .

True leadership is an attitude that naturally inspires and motivates others, and it comes from an internalized discovery about yourself. You cannot “learn” an attitude. If someone learns an attitude, it’s called conditioning or mere mental assent. That’s not leadership. You can condition an animal to do something by rewarding or threatening it with an external result. But an attitude is a perspective, a motivation, or a desire that comes from within and is not based on a temporary external con sequence. It is something deeply personal and internal that influences and transforms your thinking about yourself and your ability, value, self-worth, self-esteem, outlook on life, actions, and perceptions of others. “AS YOU THINK, SO SHALL YOU BE” Learning about leadership and knowing what it means to be a leader are two different things. Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual. You do not really

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