Leadership means, "leading, while others follow." Of course, one of the key characteristics of leadership is authority. Flowing from the foregoing, every leader is a beneficiary of a 2-edged tool which is an equivalence of two different weapons - a pride, and humility.
The essence of this article is to itemize the two arsenals mentioned above. The former is suicidal, while the latter might be the light to your feet on the road to success.
Kindly peruse below, their functionalities.
As a leader, pride kills you as follows;
1. Arrogance: When a leader starts boasting of his mistakes, refuses to repent and takes his followers for granted, then he starts killing himself gradually.
2. Ignoring your followers: Some leaders intentionally ignore their followers opinions. They believe they know it all. Some even shun phone calls, messages and other conversations from their co-leaders and followers. They feel just too big. Gradually, this habit becomes a slow poison and starts killing you silently.
3. Too stubborn to yield to corrections: As a leader, if you always refuse to adjust your ways after being corrected, it means you are proud, and that pride will terminate your integrity in no long time.
4. Taking your followers for granted: Every responsible leader must respect their followers. When you live waywardly and think they are nobody to query you, be rest assured that pride has started destroying you.
5. Feeling superior to your followers: Many leaders feel they are better than others, thereby living unquestionable life styles. This is suicidal. You will give accounts!
However, humility pays a lot as it pave way for a successful leadership adventure in the following ways;
1. Embraces conversation: A good leader opens doors to conversation with followers. Even if they don't answer calls or messages immediately, they attend to them at later times and do everything in their capacity to give you a sense of belonging.
2. They have listening hears: Brilliant leaders listen to others' opinions, and pick the best of them. They give opportunity to others to participate in decision making.
3. They embrace corrections: Finest among leaders love corrections, and they adjust their ways immediately.
4. They respect their followers: This is a key characteristic of humility. Respect your followers. Don't shun them off. Every respect must be reciprocated.
5. They show love: They try to deal with everyone equally and avoid partiality.
6. They fear God: They don't pretend as saint in the presence of their followers and do something else in secret.
Finally, just like every other human, leaders have the special power of making choices on how to use these two great weapons, pride and humility. Factually, choosing humility, as a frontline player will give you an edge to a triumphant leadership, while pride will cement you to an early grave of intellectualism.
Odunayo Ogunmodede,
isaacodunayo35@gmail.com, 07033504020
Good write up. More Grace
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