The thing about leadership

The summary

Leadership counts that is for sure. Things go about around leadership. Growth is proportional to leadership enhancement. Down fall is caused by deteriorated, unmatched, stagnant leadership.

The idea is

Leadership is required at every stage of human and organisation development and evolution. The differentiation of human and organisation development rate and achievement is determined by the level of leadership that an individual and organisation possessed.

Leadership could also relate closely to management and decision making. The higher the leadership level the better management is required and the harder the decision making is required.

The human and organisation differentiation

The essential

When you or an organisation gets started, the factor that differentiates one man or an organisation from another is the ability of you to lead yourself or the owner of the organisation to lead himself as “the one man show”. This is where leadership started, this is where evolution started and this is where the differentiation of achievement and status begins.

So if you or an organisation what to be achieving, this is where you should start looking, this is where you should evaluate and rate yourself, and this is where you should learn how and what to improve. If you wonder why yourself or your organisation fail to achieve what other people or organisation have achieved compared to a relatively similar start up or start off, the difference is in the growth of leadership rate.

If you want to keep achieving, you have to learn lead yourself by learning how to grow yourself with continuous improvement. Self development has to be endured all the time. You can and should all the time improve yourself, you can grow yourself indefinitely and achieve more by increasing your leadership level, knowledge and capabilities. Leadership and growth is a process and it is suppose to be a never ending process.

I will not describe how to lead better, maybe in future writing and some I have written earlier. If you want to start learning, I would recommend you to start picking up leadership books.

If you need to know leadership start with care for oneself and getting better all the time. The only thing is that we are human and there is a limited rate that we can progress. The simple reason is human make mistakes and human takes time to digest mistakes and improve.

The multiplication factor

Sure you will be a better person and able to achieve more by leading yourself better, by managing yourself better and by learning how to make better and tougher decision on your own with regard to yourself. But if you want to do something significant, satisfying and contributing you should learn to lead other people. Leading other people is the way to multiplication and exponential growth.

But before you get so excited about it, remember that leading yourself is hard enough and leading yourself should be a never ending process regardless as I mentioned. Sometime even if you started to lead others and enjoy some degree of success, in time you may fail. One of the reasons apart from the failure to learn more how to lead other better is, the failure to continuously improve and leading yourself. At this stage people normally becomes either arrogant or ignorance. They stop growing and learning.

I am confident that if you are reading this and you have read this far, you are either starting your career and have the desire to improve yourself, or you are leading yourself well and leading others, or maybe you have done well but stuck not knowing what to do next since your growth has become stagnant, or hopefully not at the stage of a downfall. Even if it so, maybe it is time to re-assess and re-group.

So whatever the situation that you are in at the moment, you can grow exponentially by having more right people and more leaders. You are to be able to position yourself either in the middle, on top and underneath more right people and leaders depending on your position in your organisation. So if you are to grow beyond your maximum rate and current abilities, you are required to learn how to lead more people.

Just understand that the more people to lead means your leadership level must be horned. You can lead people who are more skilful than you, but you cannot lead someone with higher leadership level for long.

Last but not least

All I am writing is conceptual. I am writing about the effects and consequences. I am just stressing on the importance of leadership. Maybe leadership is the missing piece that stunts your growth. Maybe you have enjoyed some success without knowing the reason why. The reason is that you have subconsciously learn to lead better by some exposures, some good example and guidance, some informal knowledge and modelling some sort of leadership traits.

To be able to grow always, you have to be consciously learns the effect and consequences of growing, decline and absence of leadership. You should be aware of the framework and to be able to put the missing pieces together as you go along.