We have a world filled with natural teachers, people
who easily explain to others how to do something, what the meaning of life is
and how to be a better person. As world teachers,
we enrich each other with new perspectives and we correct each other’s
behaviour, with the aim to help them to be better and to promote harmony in our
society.
At the same time, we are a world of eager students learning
from others at every step. Due to this,
we change because we observe others, we understand what they are doing, we
discern and then we replicate it in our own actions.
However, an obstacle in our development process is the
fact we pose as teachers when we should be quiet and learn, or we try to be
students when others are waiting for us to give an example. Being a leader means to know what to be at
what time.
A leader is the one who is silent when it is time to
learn from others and to change his or her behaviour. In that sense, a leader will be like a child
with eagerness to learn and improve and also like a wise person who knows she
or he does not know it all.
At a time of teaching, a leader will look for ways to
encourage others to do things differently without it seeming like
correction. Best of all, a leader will
follow up and make sure others have understood the lesson they gave through
their example.
(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a
Leader)
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