The Culture of Value

Leadership qualities are present in all of us because we have the potential to be strong and influential leaders. If a seed doesn't find the right environment, it will only be left with the potential to be a plant. If our potential is not used then we will remain at this stage for life. I don't know if you are happy with the life you have, personally I wish for more. I want to grow personally, to better myself and to be professional in my field. If we agree that each of us has this potential that is now latent then what makes leaders so different from other people? I think the difference is not so much the major difference as it is the open and proactive attitude that a leader has. The leader is constantly looking for ideas, for new, useful things. This is what makes him different, the ability to embrace a doctrine of the new which he uses for positive purposes as part of the goals of the organization he leads.

The portrait I paint of the authentic leader is no more and no less than the image of an ideal leader, the sum of the qualities that in my view a leader should have. Perhaps this ideal is far from what we see in our political or social leaders, but we will discover in them many of the qualities presented in the book. Leaders are survivors, they know how to stay ahead and have learned to do things immediately, well and with quality. They have learned to see the organization they lead as an important part of their lives. They don't see themselves as bosses or paid managers but as architects, people who are shaping a future for themselves and their team members and organization. 

There is much to be said and I leave it to those who read this book to discover in turn the laws presented and, why not, to discover themselves. I invite you to read these laws and write down in a notebook the valuable things you find here because leadership always starts from core values. If we don't have a set of values to believe in and fight for, then we will never become leaders. 

All of these laws to me are valuable, they are the essence of leadership and I hope they resonate in the minds of those seeking to learn more about leaders and leadership. The more we are willing to learn the more our power to influence will grow. It's simple and easy if we find the motivation to study and apply the laws of leadership as often as we can.