The leadership mystique

One of the things thay attracts me a lot towards leadership is a sense of almost magic in that. True leaders can make people do things they would not believe they could and they transform our world in a way that only a magical person could do.

The drawback in that idea is that when leaders are not present, people really don't dare to do anything out of the ordinary. It is like living in a sunless world, cold and boring. Or worse: even the easiest crisis turned to be terrible in a world without leaders.

However, a few years back, when I was just starting to research on the topic for a brief time when I was a professor in a prestigious university near Bogota, I remember clearly one factor out of many that defined leaders: they create other leaders.

In fact, the real mystique in leadership is when leaders are able to create other leaders. In that way, even when a leader leaves, the sun is strill bright there.

The question is, why is it that even big leaders are unable to create other leaders? That is one aspect that all leaders should pay more attention. Leaders are not born as such, leaders are generate by an intricate powerful education process.

Until leaders are able to create other leaders we will have to endure a cold weather in the leadership landscape.

As a coach, I can help in developing a leadership which is sustainable in the long term. Do you want me to help? Just get in touch.

A chai in the morning

In many different countries, the term chai is already know as tea with (or "in") milk. However, there is no chai as in India.

Some days ago, drinking chai in the mountains of Northern India, I was thinking about its recipe. It is pretty simple: you boil milk, add tea herb, sugar as you like and spices (ginger is probably the most used). ¿Easy? Yes, but for some reason...

Well, nobody prepares a chai like Indians do!

It is just like the Southamerican arepa or the Brazilian farofa - you can have the recipe, but there is something deeper. Genes? Not sure, but there is something more than the recipe, definitely.

In the same way, every person, every community or country, has a chai recipe, something which is unique to them, which cannot be replicate by anybody else. It is the "special" speciality everyone has, something we have been preparing and cultivating inside our beings for years and years.

For me, human kind is like a vitral: not only it is beautiful as a whole, but each piece in itself is a wonder.

Your chai can be the way you speak, a skill, art, the fact you know how to cook pizza or smile, not matter what happes around you. Perhaps it is the way you deal with stress, your profession, love or being a mother. Your chai can be the fact you know stadistics by heart or you sing in the shower.

And that chai has a deep effect in everything that happens around you. It is the colour and shape of you, in the vitral of humanity.

Well, do you recognise your own chai?