Are you a born leader?

In 1960, we believed that all people could become anything they wanted to be. Today, we realize that some talent have a genetic or biological basis. Leadership is probably too learned and unlearned items. You can be born with some talent, but there are useful development experiences to help you along. The question is: What the talent of leadership may be ignorant and which aspects can be learned?

The born leader

It all depends on how they define leadership. If it means coming in first place in a group company, or country, then all it takes to be a dominant, dominant person is the key. No doubt there are influencing skills that help people to reach the top they are, in part, learned. However, the ability to dominate a group of people is not so different from what it takes to reach a similar status in other groups of animals - you must have superior strength compared to your competitors. This could be a higher intelligence, being more confident, assertive, aggressive or decisive. You could also have a magnetic personality and a commanding presence. Being tall and handsome followers can also help sway. Most of these traits or acquired very early in life or not learned at all. Having these attributes could make a born leader.

Another definition of Leadership

There is a tradition of associating the leaders to provide direction, challenging the status quo, "showing the way." Each time you do something that is recognized by your colleagues as excellent, many follow suit. This is leading by example. Similarly, every time you put into question existing policies or propose a new product and the others get on board, who have demonstrated leadership. It could be a front-line product developer or knowledge worker with a good idea on how to do something better. Such leadership does not need to be in a position of authority over any group.

The psychological basis of finding a better way

Young people are naturally inclined to be dissatisfied with the status quo. Part of the growth involves questioning authority, feeling that the older generation is to confuse things, wanting to prove yourself by demonstrating that you know best. This instinct is often referred to as "youthful rebellion". Now, people are very different on how rebellious they are and how to channel this attitude. Some of us are very conservative. We are good at doing things, but rarely question the way things are. Others are very rebellious, but some channel this talent into unproductive ways, interruptions or becoming criminals. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a great example to have a rebellion that has focused on improving social equality and ethical way of living.

In any case, the impulse to rebel is not something you learn in class. We are either born with it or grow naturally very early in life. The fact that young people tend to be more rebellious than older ones suggests that people tend to have more leadership potential when they are young. This is not a surprise. The same goes for creativity, as a general rule, to which there are exceptions of course.

Aspects of Leadership Read

So, you have a healthy dose of rebellion and challenge the status quo in which you work. But, let's say, you're trying to get others to follow your example. What can you do differently? Your success depends on two other important things: how good your idea and how effective you are at influencing people. If your idea is of course great, opportunists will jump on the bandwagon, with a little 'persuasion required by you. On the other hand, the harder it is to demonstrate the merits of your case, you must be the most convincing. For example, it is very difficult to argue that the free market system is fundamentally flawed and could be very easy to show that a new piece of software is superior to everything else around. If you aspire to be a political leader, where there are no right answers, of course, you need to get as close as possible to have the oratory skills of Martin Luther King to succeed. It influencing capacity which can, to some extent, be developed.

The basic unit for changing the world, however, is not a set of capabilities learnable. However, "change the world" can be done on a very modest, locally, such as changing how people in your department to serve customers. Convince your colleagues to make minor changes in the way the job is still the leader, although not in large scale of a Martin Luther King. Thus, many more people able to demonstrate a leadership who has what it takes to reach the top of a hierarchy of groups. All, therefore, is born with a talent to see how some aspects of its environment could be better. This means that anyone can show a certain direction, even if only on a small scale.

The bottom line is that both definitions of leadership are based, in part, on traits that are difficult to learn, but only the second allows everyone to show some 'leadership .......