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Leadership
What is leadership?
Many books have been written about this topic .
Is it the person who is the boss? Is it the person who has
the title of leader? I would dare to say no! There are
many people who are in leadership positions but are not
leaders. When I think of great leaders I think of people
like Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. I believe Mr.
Roosevelt said it best in his Man in the Arena quote.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points
out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds
could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes
up short again and again, because there is no effort without
error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms,
the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause;
who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he
fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor
defeat."
A leader must bear the sweat and blood from being in the
arena. He or she must work side by side with those they
lead. A leader must not fear failing but instead fear not
trying. I have had the opportunity to be in a leadership
position for most of my career and although I don't count
myself as being a great leader mentioned in the same breathe
as those above. I do have a better understanding of what it
means to lead. A true desire to make my community a better
place to live, work, and play.
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