Leadership

         

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Chapter one: What is leadership?

Leadership is the accomplishment of a goal through the direction of human assistants. The man who successfully marshals his human collaborators to achieve particular ends is a leader.
Your leadership ability is what determine the level of your effectiveness. If your leadership effectiveness is 9% your effectiveness cannot be more than 8%, so you need to increase your leadership ability often.
However, an organization is only as good as it leader, no organization can be better than it leader. "everything rises and falls on leadership."
More simplified, leadership is influencing, guiding and directing people towards achieving goals.
As a leader you are not called to manage, you are
called to lead, however we need both leaders and managers to work as a team.
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Chapter two: Influence

The true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more or less. influence is the power-force that governs leadership, a leader without influence has no power.
positions and titles are important but they have nothing to do with leadership.
John Maxwell said, "the only thing a title can buy is a little more time - either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it."
Stanley Huffty sad, "it is not the position that makes the leader, it is the leader that makes the position."
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Chapter three: Leaders are pace setters.

The idea of leadership is not just to take responsibility and get the job done, or to mobilize people to do the job. Leadership is setting the pace for your followers. My father and mentor in leadership John C. Maxwell  said to me as I read his book THE 21 IRREFUTABLE LAWS OF LEADERSHIP. in chapter 4, the law of navigation, he asserts, "almost anyone can steer, but it takes a leader to chart the course." this means that leaders set the pace by providing the map, the big picture for the followers. that's why in the ship there's a captain and there are sailors. the captain don't steer the ship, he only provide the map, direction, vision for the sailors to sailors to steer the ship. that's why I agree with John C. Maxwell that almost anyone can steer only the leader can chart the course.