| Jim Rohn |
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Motivational dissertations and coaching for businesspeople, professionals and entrepreneurs. Books, audiocassettes, free ezine. Secure server. Worldwide shipping. This exceedingly interesting website offers free reading material as well as many other products and services related to motivation, self-help and leadership education, and among those offers we found: Audiocassetes, compact discs and printed publications Seminars, courses and special events The importance of good leadership cannot be understated in scientific expeditions, adventure trips or commercial ventures; success or failure in all those projects may well be determined by the nature and quality of the people acting as leaders within those frameworks, and by the kind of motivation that they are able to imprint in their subordinates. I is a gross mistake to believe that the fact that a person has an administrative position within a ranking scale would be enough for that individual to become a leader; that is a formal aspect that indeed helps, because it is much harder to lead any group if one has to rely only on informal aspects, meaning that the blessing of official recognition is always desirable. But formal authority is only a part of the whole process that we understand as leading, no matter whether it is exercised over a sports club or a space program. Above all, a leader must (not should) be able to inspire others with his own example, and we must stress that this may never be achieved just with an inaugural speech but over time and results; facts are indispensable. We all have a tendency to lean to the immediate, superficial and most evident because these things are easier to obtain, but good results in leadership are never the product of eleventh-hour actions. Good speeches and nice premieres are good, and may be desirable; however, if soon enough no substantiation comes forward, these things devaluate rapidly. This is why political discourses in general seem like old movies repeated on television; they don't attract people after a while and become a parody. If we could briefly tell you how a leader should be, just do exactly the opposite to what politicians regularly do. The notion that results do not pop into existence overnight cannot be understated; instant success is something that may happen to you if you like gambling or the lottery, but it takes hard, long work to achieve anything really sustainable. This means that if you want to become a leader, you will have to study, work and do a lot of self-critique. You will need to gain experience. A common mistake among those who would like to become leaders in any field is to confuse amorality with boldness or character; this mistake has taken us to a point in which it seems that firing people, using compulsive methods to force others to work long hours or showing insensitivity are qualities of a good leader or administrator. Corporations seem to be looking for such executives, and governments sometimes seem to be willing to place such kind of ambassadors posted in other countries or international institutions, believing that a prowler will get the job done, whatever that job may be. That is foolish. Someone who demonstrates such qualities and pretends to lead in such a way is in the first place, an incompetent inept that has only one kind of technique in his intellectual arsenal, and on the first occasion in which he would confront a situation when he would be unable to use such methods, he would become as useless as a pilot who does not know how to land his airplane. And secondly, such an individual is an evil person who has made a goal in his life to solve things by hurting others; no good and lasting things may be obtained from bad deeds. Organisations that apply such methods demonstrate that they have very unwise leaders that act like a virus that destroys its host; in any kind of human group, leaders must generate loyalty, and not obedience based in fear or compulsion of the kind that supervisors sometimes display with employees on petty matters. In order to became a good leader, one must have a certain moral and personal stature; leaders need to be believable in their integrity. And there is no good leader who is not also a good person. |
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