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Love Passage for

        Leaders

If I can speak beautifully and can sing like an angel, but

 don’t love others, I sound like a child banging on a piano or a

screeching radio.

If I’m very smart, almost genius, if I can figure out the hardest

math problems and understand sentence diagrams, but

don’t love other’s, I am nothing.

 Love will stand in line and wait its turn.

            Love looks for the good in others.

Love doesn’t always want what others have, and it doesn’t

brag about what it does have.

            Love is polite, even when the other person is rude.

Love doesn’t always have to be first.

            Love doesn’t get angry over the small things, and it

doesn’t remember one reason after another to be hurt.

Love isn’t happy when someone else fails but is happy with

the truth.

            Love will always protect others, especially those who

            are often picked on or teased.

Love always believes the best about others and is steady and true.

Love never gives up. Preaching will stop someday. So will

speeches. Knowledge will come to an end. Today we only

know part of what there is to know. We can preach and speak

only with a small part of understanding, but when perfection

comes then what is imperfect will go away.

I am now young, and so I talk and think and speak like a

child. When I become an adult I will put childish ways behind

me. Now we see only a poor reflection, like in a mirror; then

we will see face-to-face. Now I only know part of what there is

to know; then I will know fully and will be fully known as a great leader.

And now these three remain:

Faith, Hope and Love.

But the greatest of these is love.

                        1 Corinthians 13:13  

By Maud Sosu

(Junior Mentor)

YOUR FATHER..........

“I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.” ― Robert E. Lee.
Trusting a person means having all confidence in the person without doubting the person's ability. Trusting means willing to be lead. Below is a simple story of trusting someone....

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge. 

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter, 'Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river.' The little girl said, 'No, Dad. You hold my hand.' 'What's the difference?' Asked the puzzled father.  'There's a big difference,' replied the little girl.  'If I hold your hand and something happens to me, chances are that I may let your hand go. But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens, you will never let my hand go.' 

In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond. The little girl willingly allowed her father to lead the way. Followers trust their Leaders to hold their hand to get to the expected destination. In holding the hands of the followers, the followers believe the Leader can control him/herself and can therefore trust that the Leader will control them to the expected destination.

Leaders are trusted completely and wholeheartedly because they earned it. 

“Success is...knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.” ― John C. Maxwell

The business operations of a telecommunication company is to provide the best means of communication between two people at different places making them feel as though they were close to each and in a long run make life simple and easy. That is the simple purpose of a telecommunication company. This purpose drives their actions and in actions to get there. The purpose provides the map and destination. Without it, the company has no aim and vision.

Leaders and successful people first determine their purpose. That makes it easier for them to know what they want, why they want it, where they will get it and how to get it. The purpose defines their way of life and character which differentiates them from the rest. The purpose identifies the followers who need the benefits of acheiving the purpose and that motivates the leaders to achieve that purpose.

Though obstacles may come, the purpose makes it easier to over come them. The obstacles are seen as a stepping stone to the achievement of the purpose. This makes them succeed in all that is been done. After all “winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success” because there is no strong purpose.

WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE???

I LOVE

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.” ― Henri J.M. Nouwen

The best success one can have for him or herself is the success of loving him or herself. Accepting who you are, your weakness and strength. This success once achieved internally makes it easier to achieve any external targets.

DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF???

TARGET

“Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”― Viktor E. Frankl

PLUNGE!!!!

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ― Confucius

The success of people always shine bright where ever it is heard. The success of leaders affect people around them. The stories continue to from age to age. The good part is proclaimed and remembered than the bad part. 

But the greatest glory when telling a story is starting from the bad part and ending at the good part. That, puts the icing on the cake and a broader smile on the faces of our listeners. That also is the motivation that, you, the story teller leave in the heart of the listeners. 

Leaders cannot count the number of times they fell on the road to the land of success. Leaders often remember the bad times on their journey to the land success than arriving at the destination. In trying to attain glory, man is bound to fall at some point in time. The easy part is rising up after the fall. The difficult part is understanding why you fell, and then continuing the journey.

Biblically, Jesus Christ fell several times before getting to Calvary to die for the sins of mankind. Americans and other countries fought battles before attaining Independence. Nelson Mandela was thrown in to prison but did not give up his dream of fighting for independence for South Africa. The list will never end if i am to continue. 

So i ask this....

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU RISEN FROM YOUR FALL? 

“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.”-Bessie Anderson Stanley

A Leader's success is not about the physical wealth created by the leader. Success is all about the fulfilment of the desires of the inner self in every man and subsequently impacting the lives of others. Taking the family set up as an example, a mother is said to be successful if she is able to nurture her children to the acceptable ways of society morally. A teacher is said to be successful if his or her student can stand up and say "if not for my teacher i won't be here". A mentor is successful if the mentee is able to acknowledge the assistance of the mentor in his or her development.

Success is all about achieving a personal goals that impact positively on the people close to us. Without our goals impacting positively on those close to us, we have not succeeded. Our success should be an inspiration to others, it should challenge people both near and far. That is what the success of a leader does to his followers.

Have you succeeded yet?

DARE!!!!

“Dare to Be...

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully.

When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light.
When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it.
When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway.
When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back.
When there seems to be no hope, dare to find some.
When you’re feeling tired, dare to keep going.
When times are tough, dare to be tougher.
When love hurts you, dare to love again.
When someone is hurting, dare to help them heal.
When another is lost, dare to help them find the way.
When a friend falls, dare to be the first to extend a hand.
When you cross paths with another, dare to make them smile.
When you feel great, dare to help someone else feel great too.
When the day has ended, dare to feel as you’ve done your best.
Dare to be the best you can –

At all times, Dare to be!” 

― Steve Maraboli,

Their Eyes

“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.” ― Henry David Thoreau. 

It is said that actions speak louder than words. One of the art of leadership is the action to do what is right and not say what is right. Charismatic leaders act for their followers to copy such acts. Corporate leaders drive their corporate world by the things they do. People in general remember others for what they have done and continue to do. Mere talk does not drive people. What they see is louder than what they hear. True Leaders act than talk. Words without actions is like planting a seed without watering it to grow.

In summary “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”― Albert Schweitzer

CAN YOU SEE THE BEAUTY IN THEIR ACTIONS?

YOU...YOU & YOU...

“Truly powerful people have great humility. They do not try to impress, they do not try to be influential. They simply are. People are magnetically drawn to them. They are most often very silent and focused, aware of their core selves. ... They never persuade, nor do they use manipulation or aggressiveness to get their way. They listen. If there is anything they can offer to assist you, they offer it; if not, they are silent.” ― Sanaya Roman

                                        

 

  HOW POWERFUL ARE YOU?

shepherd boy

“A leader. . .is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.” ― Nelson Mandela.

That is what leaders are suppose to do. They are to direct from behind to see mistakes and give a gentle guidance making the followers appreciate their hidden presence. Some people have been shepherds without knowing it. Some people too have been flock of sheep without knowing it.

Are you a shepherd or a sheep?