Humility as a Leadership tonic
Humility is a tonic for anybody desiring leadership. Humility is not equivalent to stupidity and it is not derogatory. Rather it is the stimulus needed to win peoples’ confidence and dig for results. When God chooses you to be a leader, definitely He will use you to help the esteem of others. If anyone has a problem feeling good about himself, such a person will find it very difficult boosting other people’s esteem because nobody can give what he doesn’t have. If you cannot see greatness in somebody else, it is proof that you’re small.
We do not see things the way they are, rather we see things the way we are. The proof of humility is service. If you can see greatness in somebody else, you will be willing to do anything to let that greatness find expression. Great leaders in history are known to have applied a touch of humility to enable them succeed.
When you recognize potential in people, you will see the wide gap between who they are and who they could be. Your being a leader is to help them to become the best they could be. That is what leadership is all about. Whoever has this quality of humility, will serve and it will be reflected by his willingness to reach over beyond himself to help others.
The occupation of any position is simply a permission to become a leader. Position does not make one a leader. If everything that defines your authority as a leader is the title you have been given, you are not a leader. You are following in the wrong position. Our world today must come to the point where it makes a difference between people who want positions and those who want to serve.
We must come to the point where those who have not achieved anything for themselves should not bother to occupy political office, because with political power, you are expected to just multiply what you already have. When corrupt people get into positions of leadership, leadership multiplies their corruption. When the person who has created wealth legitimately for himself becomes a leader, he uses this position to multiply wealth for everybody else.
A humble person sees good in himself. He also sees and praises the good in others. He is willing to deploy his good being to bring out the best in others. He defers to others who are better. A proud leader is an insecure leader, who would explore all ways to take every credit to himself. The more credit he takes to himself, the more he loses. A proud leader is threatened by the success of his or her subordinates.
Leadership is all about service to mankind. However, it is fashionable today to find people who seek various types of positions to exhibit greatness or success. Greatness is not in what we give, but it is in what we accumulate.
Wealth is what we have accumulated. Whoever finds himself in a position of leadership should know that he is nothing but a servant and not a master with a licence to conquer or dominate others. Oh! man, go ahead to drink from the fountain of humility and become a leader.
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