Leadership

In today's society, we find that leaders are hard to come by and followers are omnipresent. A leader can be defined as someone who displays integrity and leads by good example rather than acting as an authority figure. A follower is one who is easily influenced by others poor decisions. With being a leader comes the gratification to know that you are influencing others in a good manner and making others want to do the right things. Ralph Nadar quotes, " I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not followers.". Our goal as leaders is to promote wise choices to others with out arrogance. If one brags about how they are leaders and how they tell people what to do, they aren't leaders; they are just trying to build their ego and ultimately they are followers instead of leaders. Peter Druckers says, "The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.".
Leadership is something we should definitely strive for but not for our ego. It is rather to make the world a better place.