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Leadership. What a word and a sense of feeling to have to know that there’s a group of people who are following you, whom you should set an example to, whom you should lead.
But what makes a leader, a leader to a group of people? What makes someone want to follow a person and do what he wants to get done, by dedicating their time and effort?
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Leadership is about honesty. More than managing people, it’s about being honest with them about what your thoughts are and where they are going to. It’s about being honest with people about your strengths and vulnerabilities so that they feel more confident to lower their guard. For, progress and innovation is about learning from mistakes. Mistakes happen all the time, but learning happens when one has the space to accept with honesty, that one committed a mistake.
It’s about being honest about what you want to do. It’s not about having an elevator pitch to bring people together with energy. It’s about having a genuine belief about a change you want to bring to what is in existence. It’s when you have that honesty about what you want to do, that you attract the right people — people who believe in you, your honesty, beliefs, and any purposes you have.
The greatest of leaders in the history that we remember are those who honestly and strongly believed in bringing a change. Gandhi and Martin Luthar King in different points of history to Steve Jobs and Elon Musk in a relatively contemporary time. There sure are people out there less known than these, who believe there’s a change that’s to be brought to what IS — not because they want to create a business empire — rather because they, honestly, at the rock bottom of thought and instinct, believe in the need of that change. If not a need, the curiosity of “What if this change becomes a reality?”
Honestly, who are you? It costs being that honest self of yours to be a leader.
