| Leadership is one of the most talked about and least | | | | can't be any other way. False. In fact it's the exact |
| understood aspects of human behavior. There must | | | | opposite that is so often true. In the best |
| be hundreds of definitions of leadership, yet none of | | | | businesses, families, schools, and groups, anyone in |
| them is useful for success in life because none of | | | | the group can exhibit leadership. Leadership should be |
| them allows you to 'create' leadership within your life. | | | | encouraged at every level of the organization (with a |
| Why is that? Why isn't leadership one of those things | | | | few rules of behavior to prevent conflict and |
| you can go to school to learn, pick up through | | | | confusion). |
| experience, or work on yourself to develop? | | | | If you believe any or all of these myths, you'll need |
| First, you need to understand the false assumptions - | | | | to revise your beliefs or you'll never build true |
| the myths - about leadership. Then you'll come to | | | | leadership into your life. |
| realize that leadership is one of those things you can | | | | SO, WHAT IS TRUE LEADERSHIP? |
| go to school to learn . . . if there were a school that | | | | Leadership is nothing more than a core set of skills |
| knew how to teach it. You can pick it up through | | | | that can be learned. There are five of them: vision, |
| experience . . .if you know what leadership is and as | | | | discrimination, strategic thinking, commitment, and |
| importantly, what it isn't. You can work on yourself | | | | inspirational communication. You'll learn about them |
| to develop it . . .but you need to know what to work | | | | and how to develop them in yourself and others as |
| on. | | | | you progress through the Mastery Leadership |
| The first barrier to developing leadership is breaking | | | | program's Mastery Keys for the Emerging Leader. At |
| through the false assumptions we have come to | | | | the same time, you will be able to assess your own |
| accept without questioning. You may not believe all | | | | leadership and that of those you associate with, and |
| the assumptions listed below but it's a good bet you | | | | devise a leadership development program for |
| believe some of them. Yet, they're all false. | | | | enhancing your skill level. |
| THE FALSE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT LEADERSHIP | | | | THERE'S NO MYSTERY TO LEADERSHIP |
| 1. Leadership is innate - you're either born with it or | | | | There's nothing mysterious about leadership. Once |
| you're not. Absolutely false! Leadership consists of a | | | | you know its core skills and specific systems it |
| set of skills that can be identified and learned. It's | | | | becomes a straightforward personal development |
| true that some people have a greater aptitude for | | | | task, just like any other system in your life. |
| leadership but all of us can be leaders and can build | | | | Like many other seemingly mysterious things, once |
| our leadership skills. | | | | you know the secrets of duplicable leadership, you'll |
| 2. Leadership is charisma and style; it's the way we | | | | want to say, "How simple! Why didn't I see it |
| do things, not what we do. False. We'd all like to be | | | | sooner?" |
| charismatic and stylish, and many leaders are just | | | | Leadership is probably the single most important |
| that. But leadership is substance, not style. Leadership | | | | aspect of your life and ability to produce the results |
| has to do with what we do and the impact we have | | | | you want. It's leadership that figures out what you |
| on others. There have been great leaders who were | | | | need to do to enhance your life and give it the |
| dull as dust and others who have been charismatic. In | | | | power, thrust and momentum it needs. And it's |
| our own time Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, is dull, | | | | leadership that determines how to do it. Then it's |
| "nerdy," and as uncharismatic as one can get, yet | | | | leadership that makes sure it gets done. Without |
| look at what he's led others to do and the impact | | | | leadership, life is aimless, purposeless, random, |
| he's had on Today's world. | | | | ineffective, and - no exaggeration - terminally ill. With |
| 3. There's no structure or system to leadership; it's | | | | effective leadership, your life will thrive, you will |
| situational. False. Not only is leadership - true | | | | navigate through any storm, and surpass every goal |
| leadership - structured and systematic, it can be | | | | you ever set for yourself. |
| duplicated again and again. Students in the Mastery | | | | Leadership is the cornerstone of the warrior's ability |
| Leadership program learn how to do this during the | | | | to create the life worth living and develop the skills |
| course of their study. Leadership has principles, skills | | | | necessary for protecting that life from anything that |
| that can be learned, and specific ways to get results. | | | | would threaten it. And so it is also the cornerstone of |
| All those things are the building blocks of the | | | | the Warrior Concepts Life Mastery Program. Here at |
| successful accomplishment of goals, managing the | | | | WCI, just like every other solid, educational |
| aspects of our lives, and creating a life worth living. | | | | institution, we create leaders - not just in the martial |
| And if you can systemize it, you can duplicate it. | | | | arts, but at home, school or work, and in the |
| Believe it - leadership can be built into your life as a | | | | community. We create the light that will cause others |
| workable, predictable system. | | | | to engage in our vision with us and that will brighten |
| 4. The top person - the "boss" - is the leader, and it | | | | the Path for others to follow. |