Top 10 Qualities of Great Leaders you must know

How leader is doing is big different from what manager is doing. Leader is leading while manager is following. Leader is doing the right thing while manager doing the thing right. Leader prefers the blur colour while manager and simple people prefer clear white, red or black colour. What are such qualities to be a great leader in business and all positions? We have ten traits of greater’s norm:

CEO or leader share values and attitudes whereas managers and boss share only skills and knowledge. Find out those intrinsic values with us now.

a).  Leaders Works with Blurriness: Very often people want a clear cut decisions, great leaders would like to see a combination of grey shadow. Successful leaders are able to handle apparent contradictions in tension. They use these paradoxes to come up with innovative ideas.

b).   Leaders Like Blank Sheets of Paper: Managers and simple boss use given policies and procedures to guide them to make a proper decision. They prefer a clear instruction so that they could do and succeed it on time. In contrast, great leaders create a white paper so that managers can pen on it with any colour. Every leader wants something from scratch so that they can have such unique, innovative idea.

c).   Leaders love people around them but need a challenging one: Unlike boss who only prefer the staffs that like to listen to them, leaders would love to see challenges from people around them, and this means leader would like to hire the most challenging people. They don’t if today’s challenger might be tomorrow’s rival. Challengers give leader new idea always.

d).   Leaders Prefer Choices: Diversity is the best and only options for great leaders. Diversity springs unique thinking. A team of ten’s head is much better and a team of hundred people but one dominant brain.

e).   Leaders like to see the facts: Although it’s good or bad, successful leader are always welcome it. They wanted to know how they have gone; what’s wrong with their policies; where and how to fix it etc. The real facts can answer lots of question that have been asked long ago. The facts share big pie of the doubts.

f).   Leaders Tie Their Necks Out: Leaders are always at the front. If something went wrong, they will come forward and be responsible for it. They do not blame other, neither the material. Best leaders will say from their heart that it’s their fault and they would like to fix it. They will not run away from the troubles.

g).   Leaders is Themselves.  Whereas successful leader seeks for opinions from their fellow guys, they are profoundly believe in themselves. They are confident in their power of making decision. They are themselves. After all, it’s leader that makes this final decision and it’s them.

h).   Leaders are Critical. Boss’s role is to get things done. Manager’s role is to get thing done right and look if it follows from what leader has set out. Great leaders are different in many senses. They don’t know how to get things done right but they know they are doing the right thing. They are not specialist like Boss or Manager but they are very visionary and very curious about new thing. They like to invent new and unique stuffs. In their head, they only think about something that has never done before.

i).   Leaders are Honest with Themselves: Self-identified is the most vital for leaders. Leaders know for sure who they really are. They love and trust themselves more than anybody else. They encourage themselves; they inspired and they give opportunity themselves to restart everything.

j). Leaders are Loving-kindness persons. The very last and most important trait for all great and successful leader is being a loving-kindness person ever. Having a sympathy mind and compassionate love towards other people regardless skin colour, races, background, and status allow great leader to stay closer to people and get everything learn very quick. It also allows him or her to communicate with surrounding environment very smoothly. Very powerful as have said by John Maxwell, loving-kindness will help everything work smoothly and that co-workers are working not because they are forced to do it but because they are proud to do it.

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5 main principles leaders must live with all the time

There are a lots of principles that country's leader or CEO of the company must always go with, yet some of them can be ignored in some situation or case. For example, dress well and come to the meeting on time are principle that all leaders must follow. However, these two can be forgotten for sometimes because it poses little consequences to leader here and now.

Nonetheless, there are fundamental principles that leaders can't live hold position without it. As mentioned earlier, three core basic principles - Truthfulness, Gratitude and Patience - are, for example, must be always go with leaders. Without this principle, everything such as values, respect, honesty, and loving will be taken back in a matter of seconds. Also the five main principles this article will elaborate stand out to be leaders' property. Leaders must hold on this principle forever and lifelong, not just months or year.

Why it has to be that serious? Because it is important for decision. When one becomes a leader or CEOs, manager of a company or firms, they are going to make decisions that may affect health, wealth, happiness and life of the others. These five main principles help leaders, CEOs, managers or boss to come up with wise decision and positive implication over the long term.

What are these five main principles? The answer to this question is claimed by nobody but the natural answer. They are abstaining from killing or threaten of all beings, abstaining from stealing all kinds of others' property, abstaining from sexual misconduct, abstaining from telling a lie and the last one is abstaining from indulging life with alcohol, drug, and gambling.

a). Abstaining from killing or hurting others: This is really important principle that's why it comes at the very first rule. All beings needs life to live and do you, as the future leader. Everyone scares of death; everyone hates to see their family, friends, relatives, and their people were hurt; everyone dislikes punishment, restriction, and violation. Instead, everybody wants freedom from wants and fear. Everybody wants to live healthy and harmoniously. As you are going to the leader, you should understand this very important ground.

b). Abstaining from stealing: Why? I work hard; you work and the whole people in this globe is working hard for life enjoyment. They want to own something such as cars, phones, house, computers, and so on so forth. This is really meaning to freedom of property. As a leader, you can't be that corruptive behaviour. You must be kind rather. It is suggestive to give rather than taking away from your fellow people. Those properties mean nothing to you but being happy to see your co-workers or stuffs getting rich, earning more money is one of your leadership traits.

c). Abstaining from sexual misconduct: That's very sensitive and costs lots of lives. Your partner values more important than any other materials. Your partner is your life and you do not want others to take it always or exploit it. So do your fellow worker, friend, and people. Being the best leader, you must never touch up other's wife or husband. This is really wrong. You can try to do it secretly but you will never hide forever. And you will lose everything including your very long time name you have built. This third principle values as your fame.

d). Abstaining from telling a lie: Tell the truth. Be truthfulness to your fellow people. Make it as your habit. One thing that this fourth principle stand-out to be the most and harmful rule is because of its easiness to say things for funny. But everything is counting. You can't make fun by cheating. You can't order or threat people to work by telling them a lie. The fourth principle costs your leadership to go up and also down when you abuse it. It is easy to move your tongue but it is hard to recover it. Always say things wisely and honestly.

e). Abstaining from indulging life with alcohol, drug and gambling: Remember, the last is always the far most important. So does this principle. Why? Having violate the last principle will destroy the rest because the fifth principle really connects to one's state of mind. Alcohol or drug will down you mental state of mind. It will go to disorganize your thought and disrupt your wise thinking. You can't control your mind any more. What happen if you can't? You can't also follow the best four above.

Now, it is clear that leaders and those who wish increase their leadership ability must follow these five principles and take it seriously. The longer one obeys these rule, the higher they can go up.

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Leadership is a solution to your daily business problems

Got a problem at working place? Not easy to get along with co-worker, receive countless blame from boss, no respect from subordinates etc. Got a problem in family? Can't enjoy family, children did not performance as they should and husband and wife did not play role as they suppose they should be. Got a problem in a country? Violence, corruption, chaos in the community. These are problems that often ghost people. These problems really disrupt good life of most people. How to get out of this worse situation become a doubtful for almost everybody. 

Efforts have been made to find the solution but seems does not really answer the whole complex because there is problem already with the answer itself. The answer is not inclusive; it is not covering the whole story. The answer is context-situated and geographically determinate. We need the holistic one and that this article is the right answer to above question, nothing more nothing less.

Leadership is the only SOLUTION to all problematic life mentioning above. Why? What so special about leadership? Believe or not leadership is a well-known term and everybody knows its meaning but why remains many disputes, conflicts and puzzle life. There must be something wrong with it.

Now look at what leadership really means. Leadership defined by John C. Maxwell as the ability to influence, nothing more nothing less. Maxwell defends that when you can influence people and that people is doing something for you or following their task not because they have to but they would like, that ís really leadership. Maxwell is very correct to a bigger part. 

When your people, your co-workers, your students, your children, or neighbours are doing things for you not because by order but they are pleased to do, you should notify that your leadership is considerably high. And the other way around if you force your fellow people to do something but they reluctant or resist to do it, for sure you have not even little leadership capability.

Gandhi, Luther King Jr. and Aung San Suu Kyi define "Leadership" differently. Leadership is all about devoting one's own life for the sake of the public with no condition. In fact, they all did already. They scarified even life for the goodness of their nation and the entire world. They did not hate their enemies. They treat people as human being equally. Nothing is higher or lower to them. Everyone is free and equal from birth. And when they see disrespect over human value, they always step in to help change the situation. So far, they succeeded it.

This is comparably matched with Buddha's four sublime states of mind: Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic-joy and equanimity. One has to always stick to these four sublime state of mind to live a good life. With loving-kindness, the first principle, towards all beings will bring greater peace, happiness and harmony. For sure, there will be no fighting, disputes or violence conflict among family, working place, or society. Together compassion, sympathetic-joy and equanimity, this is the answer to the above question. And that with these four sublime states of mind constitute a leadership character.

Hence, Leadership is about scarification, devotion, serving the public and in total must consist of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic-joy and equanimity.  

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Abraham Lincoln's Method to Test Man's Character

True character of a person is completely hard to identify. Why? It is because the flexibility of a person and their easily adaptation to the environment they are living in with their wisely knowledge to fit the given situation. There is no effective detection tool, in history. For most, we will never be able to clearly scan such a person whether good or bad, easygoing or serious, or discipline-less or well organized etc. What to do then in order to know people clearly?

Throughout research, they found that it is right that one can define a person when an evil or virtuous one, however, one can obtain higher proportion of information about that person through several criteria below:

Look at their associates; who this person is associating with. What they often do? Check out his or her friends instead of him or her allows us to easily notice the behaviours of those people. The reason simply because they are not going to pretend doing something good or bad in front of us. They will some from their natural performance. They will not hide it. If they were good, then they will something good natural and vice versa. This is one effective way.    

a). Speech and Action: Normally, we tend to know what is good or bad through speech or action. If you want to know a person clearly. Perhaps the second recommended step is to investigate or search for pattern of speech and action they have. As people who used to stay around with them might help as well. This second tip is proved weak and inconvenient comparing to the first one. Let’s move to the third and fourth techniques, which are conceived to be the best tips ever shared by famous scholars and leaders around the world.

b). Habits: We all now know that we are the production of our habits of thought, action, and speech by early article in this blog. So, to keep it short to detect a person whether good or bad, friendly or the opposite, it is recommended to focus on habits of person. For sure, whatever a person is pretending to do it will not last long. They will one day reveal it automatically since it’s their true self. As such, it is very effective to have critical look on habits of thought, action and speech of a person so often they one will be able to know who should be associated and not. As mentioned in our previous article, we are what we think about most of the time. What we think we become. – Lord Buddha.

c). Character, last but not least, is the central key to a person. Knowing character of a person means knows everything about them from bottom to the head, from left to right and eyes to toes. But how we get to know if character of a person is this or that? By two possible ways:

- Abraham Lincoln suggests an impressive and truthful way to make a strong and sufficient detection. For Abraham Lincoln, as have seen in the picture above, to test a man’s character by giving him or her power. As it happens very often at your backyard, some people is supposed to be humble, calm and very basic once she or he is positioning in a lower status. They tend to friendly and communicable to kinds of people; they tend to say thanks, apologize for some errors and appreciate for one’s achievement and result. However, once their position or status moves up they are completely different. They tend to less-friendly, incommunicable, and ambitious etc. From this ground Abraham Lincoln advises that it is easily to test a person whether good or bad by giving them power. As one can see, if power is given and that person changes little or nothing then he is a good person but if very rapidly change then one knows for sure who those persons are.

- The second possible to detect a person character is by reviewing the whole process of character. When it becomes a character? Who creates and influences this character? From SEAN COVEY, the whole process is like this:

         Thought becomes words; words become actions;

         Actions become habits when repeatedly do;

        Habits become CHARACTER when repeatedly perform.

 Therefore, to test person’s character we got to learn their mind, their speech, their actions and their habits. It seems a bit long and complicated but prove very effective.

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Three Qualities for best leaders - Truthfulness, Gratitude and Patience

In searching for increasing the ability to influence people is leader's most important job. How to lasting get respect and understand from the public is another most crucial but also the hardest task for today's Executive or Manager could have been doing.

For most of the time, best CEO of the year is not the best and perhaps the worst rather should be awarded. Yet, this society prefers this kind of behaviour or performance. This is really wrong. To get the awards or receive the champion, one executive leader must fulfil lots of requirement. It is not physically hard but mentally focus.

Then what are the core traits to be the best CEO, leader, manager and person of the year? In fact, there are many characteristics to be pointed out (which I will do it in the next article) but in this very specific article I would like pick three very important qualities of being the greatest, lasting leadership.

Do not hesitate to express your argument if these principles do not fit the reality or do not reflect what nowadays leaders are doing. The principles that i'm going to discuss are naturally inborn into everybody's life. Noticing it or not, we all have it. Our parent gave us since the day we were born. That's why to some people they would these are very traditional principles which somehow are outdated. However, this article is proving that the triple core values: Truthfulness, Gratitude and Patient never get old neither need new principles to substitute it. These principle is lasting true and permanently applicable to all nations, geographic, position, status, religions, system, races etc.

Perhaps there would be questions about who invented or discover these principle. Do not worry! No one invented it, neither do God. These principles belong to nobody but is applying to everybody without any exception. Why not exception? Let go with me to see the detail of those three best traits for anybody who wishes to become great leader, best CEO, best Executive leadership and best person of the month, year, or whole life.

Let me first elaborate on these three principles (Truthfulness, Gratitude, and Patient) as follow:

a). Truthfulness: Whatever English dictionary gives definitions, for most of us this is very clear that truthfulness is about being honesty and sincerity toward reality of things. Everyone knows this, right? But why not every of us becomes the best leadership, most prominent CEO or manager if all know about this first principle?

There is one thing most people on earth do not pay attention to which is TRUTHFULNESS  is not a noun. It is not just being simply honesty and that's it. No, it is beyond that understanding. And that few people understood this concept. That is why the world remains shortage of great leadership, the company remains have not enough leadership workers. Only Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi have been to the top and not all of us. These great people understood very clear the first principle of truthfulness that: Truthfulness is not a noun; it is a verb with very active performance.

One has to do it, not just knowing it in mind and keep silence. Materialize this principle into practicality and turn it into one's own habit. For sure, great leader starts with this very first principle. So, the tip is turning thinking or knowing-principle into working-principle. This first principle represents your active hand, 1st H principle.

b). Gratitude: Since we were born, we owe many things to many people and this universe. The best relationship between air, land, water, fire and wind makes the earth and its neighbouring run smoothly and that we, the human, also enjoy a good life. Nature provides us so many things we can't count. We need to be grateful with our nature as well. What about parents? They are priceless than the earth, nature and the rest for us.

Why i say this? Because we need to realize that we owe many things to many peoples. Then what we have to do is be grateful about them. Ready to show great respect to not just our lovers, belovers, family, friends but anybody. With our heart, one must remember that giving hand to people is really required since we are living interdependently.

Why it has to do with best leader? I said why not. All best leaders in history always respect and thankful to their own citizens. All best CEOs always loves, protect and gratitude to their co-workers. This is how they get to the top. This is counting the 2nd principle or 2nd H principle.

c). Patient: Nothing in this universe is easy for you. The simple thing requires simple person to do it but the best thing requires best performance from you. And it's patient or perseverance. This is logical truth for all lives. Bear in mind this principle if you want to stay at the top and be there longer. It is not hard to do for those who already have the first two principles.

So this third principle wants you to never give up for what you have committed to. Aung San Suu Kyi for democratic freedom, Nelson Mandela for African liberation from Apartheid, Luther King for equal treatments began with hardest job and end with glorious success. Why success? Only one answer is patience and always moving forward.

These three principles are interconnected. Having the all these three qualities will put you at the top of any organization, company, CEOs, government position, or all kinds of leadership.

Follow it, you will succeed your goal. Ignore it, you will move nothing!

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How and What is racism to Robert Mugabe

This is an amazing speech ever for the world of racism. Be reminded that the world black is still considered by many out of the group strongly argued by Zimbabwean President. We do not know how much proportion of racism has been reduced over the years since the memorable and changing death of Martin Luther King Jr. and the recent death of Nelson Mandela but we have known for sure that discrimination against the black does exist and can hardly be eliminated, said Robert Mugabe the longest served President in African continent and probably the World.

That’s how he becomes so popular in his ruling since. Mugabe appears to be on black and hunting the possible ways to promote black African as equal as the rest nations. For many Zimbabwean, Robert Mugabe is their hero in the sense that he is anti-American or the West. However, for others Mugabe is a cruel dictatorship. He does not just did not care the Zimbabwean but he also gravely exploit them in many cases and issues.

So far, Mugabe is still in power and the suffered remains suffering and the prosperous continues to enjoy fair and equal opportunity among themselves and preparing ways to rue the majority innocent Zimbabwean.

Lately, Mugabe’s given speech on fighting against racism, which for many African is a sensitive and very nonnegotiable issue, stands out catching eyes and ear of world leaders. Mugabe’s speech is ringing a bell that racism is coming and that the world and international community must do something to reduce to such lesser extent so that people of all human kind may be able to live together again.

It is noteworthy to remind that crisis in the Middle East nowadays is also sharing many part of identity issues and racism. And the world is witnessing that it is intractable issue and must be resolved through the ground of respect, equality and integrity. Using force and military power is nothing than just to extend the already firing situation.

Below is courtesy of Robert Mugabe’s speech. Please enjoy the reading and take your time to sleep on it to see if Robert’s idea is right to a certain extent.

Speech of the year!

A speech by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe,

“Racism will never end as long as white cars are still using black tires. Racism will never end if people still use black to symbolize bad luck and white for peace. Racism will never end if people still wear white clothes to weddings and black clothes to funerals. Racism will never end as long as those who don't pay their bills are blacklisted not white-listed. Even when playing snooker. You haven't won until you've sunk the black ball, and the white ball must remain on the table. But I don't care, as long as I'm still using white toilet paper to wipe my black butt, I'm fine!”

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