Whilst most people complain about the world, being a
leader means to be here to transform the world.
It means being the instigator of change since a leader
has all skills he or she needs to change the face of reality. How does that work?
When a normal person does something, she or he fulfils
a certain role and duty. That gives the
person a sense of social belonging, and success comes when whatever this person
does is extraordinary or very useful.
A leader will go beyond that as she or he will think
of doing it in a different way, and may even change the course of a company or
country completely. There is the classic
example in management of Andrew Grove, when he changed INTEL from being a
company selling computer memory to a company selling microprocessors[1]. As a normal manager, he wouldn’t do that; on
the contrary, he would excel in his tasks and make INTEL an even better memory
producing company. As a leader, he
challenged the status quo and changed
computer history.
One cannot change the whole world if it doesn’t start
with one’s own point of view and life. As
the example above, when a leader changes the world around himself or herself, eventually
the whole world changes.
(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a Leader)
[1] Andrew Grove (1936 – 2016) was one
of the first people to work with INTEL.
This article talks about the book, written by Grove, Only the paranoid survive: How to exploit
the Crisis point that challenge every company and career. https://hbr.org/1996/11/inside-intel
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