THE SUPREME TASK OF LEADERSHIP IS SERVICE TO MANKIND.
Every true leader is a servant of the people, service not from a political perspective though that can be one channel through which service can blossom. service in presenting oneself as a gift to society or as an important link in the chain of societies progress, development and advancement. This leadership service springs from doing that which the leader is endowed with. Endowment here implies the capacity, the strength, the wisdom, the noble ideals and every other good thing the leader can inject into the life of society, these endowment can be as simple as the capacity to understand others from their point of view, knowing how to communicate effectively, having good conflict resolution skills, being generous, ability to effectively lead others in the right direction or any other noble quality.
This innate capacity waiting to exhale in us becomes the leaders avenue to contribute to societal wellbeing through service. thinking in this light, we understand the deeper meaning of our natural endowment as a prayer answered.
? how.
As every society, community or civilisation advances, it comes across many challenges some of which it may not yet be aware of or some of which only a few people among the whole know or intuit. but even with their knowledge of the challenge, they may not be able to provide solution the challenge or be able to talk to those whose responsibility it is to solve this challenge. for example, an engineer repairing a machine or working on a gigantic project may meet more challenges than his present knowledge can solve.
another case is when the political class within a society is doing one wrong after another or misleading the people they are supposed to guide to greater life.
Another example is when a wolf dressed in shepherds clothing comes to the ignorant with what he thinks is light. in the first case, the engineer has encountered a challenge and he needs a solution, deep within him, he may pray for a miraculous solution to the challenge, this prayer can be answered by a person full of creative ideas on mechanical stuff coming to apply for a job with him or he may meet with an associate who will be of great help in the solution process..
Here we see that a prayer for solution from the engineer brought in another engineer minded person who may also have been praying to work in a company where he can solve problems, in the case of the politician the people may not be able to advise the political leaders because maybe if they dare to, they may end up with their great grand fathers, but within a few people may be praying for a solution,in the last case, the sheep that is being lead may not even know that they are being mislead, but somehow, they may pray for a solution and it manifests itself in a better teacher. These crude illustration serves to point out something- every quality, character or talent we have is a solution to a challenge somewhere within our immediate environment or in the larger society. these leadership skills we posses grows or improves over time with repeated application and fine tuning.
Fine tuning our skills.
repetition is the key, when we do something again and again, we gain more mastery over that thing. life presents us with myriad opportunity to develop ourselves if only we will be quiet contemplate life and listen to our innermost inspiration, however if must reap the benefit of this development, we should look beyond the challenges of life, we should know we are not to be discouraged by them but to be inspired and forge on in life. the process of fine-tuning our skills is a one that life presents us with at many juncture of life.
once we realise these skills within then the repetition process is to look at our environment, if we look deeply we will find areas where our skill will be of invaluable help, we will see where our skills can provide solution, inspiration or any other strength to weakness in someone or in society.
by eleas stanley