What does it take to make a leader…
It’s hard to believe that with all the people on Earth, the world is at a loss for leaders, but it’s true. Look around, and what do you see? Where are our leaders ? What’s happened to them?
Let’s take the bankers and mortgage brokers, they did a bang up job with the sub-prime mortgages didn’t they? They’ve driven the Real Estate Market to it’s lowest point in years, and the foreclosure rate is through the roof.
How many CEO’s and CFO’s and any other O’s are getting fired because they ran whatever company they were running into the ground, and their best accomplishment was to write themselves a Golden Parachute into their contract. Whatever happened to accountability? You do a good job, you get compensated…You do a bad job, you don’t… What I want to know is who signs these contracts? I mean who says to the applicant, “you know, we want you so bad that even if you run our company to the ground, you will leave here a millionaire.”
What about our politicians, with the country in the state that it is, the stock market wavering, Economy so slow that it needs rate cuts and a stimulus packages to get it going, the Real Estate Market in the dumps, Sub Prime Mortgage fiasco, I turn the TV on this morning to CNN, and what do I see? A congressional hearing on whether Roger Clemens took steroids or not, ten years ago. Now tell me that I am not crazy in thinking that, this is not leadership. Where are the priorities, with all that is going on, do you think that Congress should take time out to involve themselves in such matters? On Taxpayer money?
This is not to say that if our sports leaders are cheating their way to the top, they should not be held accountable. Just not by Congress, the baseball commissioner, I’m sure could strip him of his titles if he is found to be lying.
The qualities that make a leader are by no means common these days. These used to include integrity, honesty, being role models and guiding people through their willingness to serve others for the common good of the Nation, Company, Organization or whatever entity they were leading.
I’s time to go back to school, back to the drawing board and get back the skills that make leaders great, the kind of skills and strategies that are taught at good Executive MBA and Leadership programs, the skills that will take our Nation, Companies and Organizations to a higher level, not drag them through the mud.
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