8-31-03
THE ONLY LEADERSHIP THAT MATTERS
We hear so much about leadership. Motivational speakers make big bucks cranking people up to be leaders. People who have no interest at all in being leaders take courses and listen to speeches and try to desire to be leaders.
If everyone is supposed to be a leader, who is supposed to follow? Is every piece of metal supposed to be a hammer or are some best suited to be work wrenches?
There's only one kind of leadership that matters and everyone can be that kind of leader. I am talking about self-leadership.
Isn't it strange that so many of us want to lead others when we can even control our own self? We can't quit drinking or smoking or thinking stinking thoughts but we want to lead others. It's the old adage, "Physician heal thyself" all over again.
While we are not all destined to lead others, we are all destined to learn to lead ourselves. Until we can lead ourselves, we have no business afflicting others with our weaknesses.
Take a big-time leadership job without learning to lead yourself and you will crash. Look at Clinton and Nixon. Clinton couldn't control his sexual urges and Nixon couldn't control his power surges so they crashed. What a waste of two great talents! Fortunately for all of us, both of these men had areas of greatness. Both will be remembered for the good they did as well as two crashes heard around the world.
The big book on the coffee table covered with dust says, "Work out your own salvation." It says to get the toothpick out of our eye before we try to remove the crosstie from other folks' eyes.
The two places for us to work on leadership are (1) between our ears and (2) right under our sternum. That'll keep us busy. And think of the money we'll save on those high-dollar motivational speakers, seminars and tape sets.
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Dalton sells no motivational tapes. But you may want to check out the gay dog on his Missionary Stew CD...
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