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March 2009 
Lead Effectively
Posted on May 13th, 2007
by 
John D
John D
This is a peculiar time; people all over the world are suffering at the hands of leaders who fail to effectively lead. Leaders are responsible for more than standing in front of the crowd, for parting their lips to speak, for modeling and for representing high personal and public moral and ethical standards and values, but for inspiring others. Without inspiration, leadership is weak. Without inspiration, leadership is lacking. In the absence of inspiration, leadership is null. In order to lead, inspire.
Leaders are dominant muses with a responsibility to inspire. Too often, leadership is taken for granted and leadership is abused. With leadership comes power and with power comes responsibility. We can no longer claim to be leaders and fail to inspire. We must no longer argue over ideology - the definition of good and bad - but agree that life is good, love is good, and that our being can be good. In order to effectively lead, we must be willing and able to be good, to educate, and to inspire.
This is our time – a moment within a never-ending continuum of time – our time to contribute to the world and to make it better for the world to come. Leaders who lack empathy, leaders who fail to listen, leaders who are uncompromising, leaders who are irrational, leaders who fail to inspire are not effective leaders. Anyone who has earned or accepted a position of leadership must serve. Leaders must serve as models, positive examples. It is imperative that leaders are effective. Effective leaders inspire.
Leaders are dominant muses with a responsibility to inspire. Too often, leadership is taken for granted and leadership is abused. With leadership comes power and with power comes responsibility. We can no longer claim to be leaders and fail to inspire. We must no longer argue over ideology - the definition of good and bad - but agree that life is good, love is good, and that our being can be good. In order to effectively lead, we must be willing and able to be good, to educate, and to inspire.
This is our time – a moment within a never-ending continuum of time – our time to contribute to the world and to make it better for the world to come. Leaders who lack empathy, leaders who fail to listen, leaders who are uncompromising, leaders who are irrational, leaders who fail to inspire are not effective leaders. Anyone who has earned or accepted a position of leadership must serve. Leaders must serve as models, positive examples. It is imperative that leaders are effective. Effective leaders inspire.
by John D. Evans
The Evans Poetry Collection
P.O. Box 2177
Oak Park, IL 60303
www.jdpoetry.com
"Promoting Global Peace from 2006 to eternity!"
The Evans Poetry Collection
P.O. Box 2177
Oak Park, IL 60303
www.jdpoetry.com
"Promoting Global Peace from 2006 to eternity!"
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Yes! Thanks…..
….serving as a model,
oh, you are john,
and I so appreciate you for it.
Energetic, steeped in truth.
John you are so right. Leaders have a big responsibility, and it is hard to see when people suffer. I find it difficult to understand how in industrial countries there are homeless people. I guess the job may be too much for them. Well we must do what we can. You are doing a good job to inspire with poetry John.
taking resposibility and accepting it are two different things … I’m on the side that chooses to accept it
I agree, we do take good leaders for granted, though we never think about it. I think there are leaders in all aspects of life, when you decline to participate in something you feel is wrong, you are being a leader. When you stand up for your beliefs you are being a leader, when you try to make a change in yourself and in the world you are being a leader. We should all be taking your advice and trying to be better and more inspiring leaders, thus serving others effectively. In my opinion we should first focus on being good leaders before we charge the bad ones.
I can't help but agree more to this. My country's leaders have, for the second time, disappointed by deferring our interim constituent assembly election, prolonging the instability and uncertainty about the nation's future. What can one do when we have such ineffective leaders?
I agree with Noel - I am choosing to focus on how I can become a good leader and through this process I am taking myself out of the ranks of the ineffective leaders.
John just to come back to leadership, the inspiration you are speaking of reminds me very much on 'Malcom X', this was the most inspirational and power giving book I ever red. I believe he was a great leader, he was and still is a great inspiration.