It is the perception of general people that leadership is a by birth quality. So they wish, hardly pray though, that the creator send a great leader for them, for their country’s development. But fact is that leadership quality is given to every people to some extent. Leadership quality is human qualities, traits, characteristics, nothing inhuman or extra human. So those qualities are in every human but in different degree, quantity or extent. Hardly any people are born with great leadership quality. And we can not create any leader with great leadership ability. However, as parents, teachers and leaders, we can develop great leaders. How great leader one will be depend largely on how well and planned one was nurtured, educated and inspired.
Besides, someone himself can be great leader if he is passionate to be. Because leadership is influencing people to achieve the goals, influencing means inspiring to do good things, making sacrifice for good cause and controlling from doing bad things. Leaders just need to learn about the required skills and acquire those skills to influence people, which mean skill needed to inspire and control. Like physical matter, human also have definite nature. They behave according to that nature. If you heat a matter, it expends. If you praise a man, he/she also expands; that is, feeling flattered, extend his hand and mind towards you. If you make a matter cool, it shrinks. Similarly if you criticize someone, he/she also shrinks his mind/hand from you. Thus in every circumstance a population behave predictively to specific factor. If they feel insecure, they will react in a specific pattern. If their voice is restricted they will react at a specific time and in a specific way. Thus if you know the human nature and learn the tips and techniques to influence or direct their behaviour, then you can lead them, that is influence them what is actually leading means.
Similarly if we teach our people about the human nature and the tips and techniques to influence human behaviour, we can develop their leadership ability.
To improve our leadership at all level of our nation, we have to focus at three levels. We have to focus to make our teenagers great future leaders. We have to inspire our youths to be better leaders and we have to train our present leaders to improve their leadership quality. However, by accident we can’t get great leaders. We have to develop them. "Developing The Leader within You" by John C. Maxwell can be very helpful in this regard.
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