ExodusMagSep2017

LEADERSHIP NOTE
The choir director was the best director, however,
she could not sing. With the understanding
of her weakness, she sought out
keyboard training so she could be able to
communicate properly with those that could
sing and direct to her full potential. The gospel
teacher understood her shortcomings
with regards to putting across the message
to its full intent, and sought out assistance so
she could teach to her full potential.
This is the most important part of building
your confidence. You need to be clear of
what you want to do and what you want to
achieve. Once you have defined those two,
you then need to understand the strengths
you have to accomplish your goals and find
ways to nurture them. One of the mistakes
we make is to think that because you are
good at something, that alone is enough.
You always need to be on top of your game,
and nurturing your strengths affords you that.
Secondly, you need to understand what your
shortcomings are that can prevent you from
accomplishing your goals. Shortcomings not
attended to can actually scream more
loudly than the strengths, which would then
lead to destroying the possibility of goal
achievement. That is why you find that there
are people that can take someone else’s
work, make it popular as their own and make
money out of it. It is because they would
have understood their strengths and weaknesses,
and maximised on their strengths,
while allowing the other person to maximise
on theirs. They would have spent their time
nurturing their strengths and seeking assistance
for the areas of their shortcomings. For
example, a songwriter that cannot sing but
has a very good message would write for a
good musician that would be able to put
that message across musically better than
them.
The problem arises when we fail to understand
how we need each other. It arises
when we don’t acknowledge the importance
of others and their contribution on the
things we want to achieve. You may have a
clear understanding of what you want to do,
how to achieve it. You may also have a
clear understanding of how you on your own
can achieve it with the abilities you have.
However, you may fail to acknowledge the
weaknesses you have that can prevent you
from achieving your goal. You may fail to understand
how you need those that are better
at those areas to help you achieve your
goal. This is what then leads to arrogance.
‘An overbearing pride evidenced by a superior
manner toward inferiors’ is a definition of
arrogance. We have leaders that want to
enforce their position on others because
they are unable to acknowledge
their need for them.
they are unable to accept that they
are less gifted in a certain area, and
to accept that they cannot do it
alone.
If you have ever seen a leader that is a jack
of all trades you will understand how not acknowledging
the need for others, their
strengths and their contribution does to harm
you as a leader.
People start distancing
themselves from you and some even develop
an attitude towards you because you
take them for granted. You now become a
leader that faces insubordination all day
every day. You become a leader that thinks
that money can buy a way out of everything.
You become an arrogant leader. Arrogance
shared is arrogance built.
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