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LEADERSHIP REFLECTIONS 22

If anything will go wrong in leadership, it surely will go wrong because the leaders did nothing. Providing leadership goes beyond being at the helm of affairs, having a job description that stipulates what to do and what not, being the point man or occupying a leadership position. It is the ability to lead in order to provide assurance and trust that you know what to do, when to do it, why to do it and how to do it, even when that duty is not part of your stipulated job description.

Those who play leadership roles who are not leaders will shy away from responsibilities that they believe are outside of their job descriptions, while leaders will by that situation create a new outline to their job descriptions. Put in other words, providing leadership is something that are meant  for leaders not for those who by virtue of availability find themselves in the place of leadership but with little knowledge on the dynamics of how things work in leadership.

Elvis C. Umez
Leadership Consultant
School of Leadership Development (SOLD)
IDB Consult

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