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Inspire Your People to Be Great Leaders

Leadership is a very common word, but who can fully tell what this simple word represents? It refers to that which is most obvious, and yet most incomprehensible; for, while our senses can take cognizance of it, our minds cannot grasp it. Truly wonderful are the mysteries of leadership.

When I started my career in management in 1973, we didn't have computers, cell phones, texting, or e-mail. We didn't understand the meaning of leadership. The only management style we understood was autocratic (or authoritarian). A "military" style leadership where management makes all of the important decisions. 

Nowadays, most managers in top organizations inspire and shape their subordinates to be both great leaders and managers. They now understand the meaning of interdependence and appreciate the importance of both management and leadership. In an interdependent relationship, leadership and management must be reliant on and responsible to each other.

Effective leadership has a lot to do with motivating, inspiring, and driving change - but it doesn't end there. Good leadership involves the ability to create good goals, help others put their talents to use to get to that goal. The best leaders aren't blind to their own or others' weaknesses; but they understand that the road to success is found in their strengths, not their weaknesses. 

Leadership involves inspiring and motivating others to take action and guiding them toward a common goal.  Leadership involves the act of getting individuals aligned, motivating them, and moving them toward a common goal. Great leaders focus on both individual and team strengths. 




He who loves no one and is loved by no one is only half of a leader. Every leader needs the daily bread of human affection. All love is of grace. It is never deserved. Nobody ever deserved to be loved; but being loved makes us more deserving than anything else can. To hate another is to hate yourself. Love the people and lead them to success. 

What did we do to earn our life? Existence is a free gift. The soul with its divine powers, its immortal faculties, its memory running backward, its purposes running forward, its solemn voiced conscience, making eternal distinction between right and wrong, its affections, capable of flooding life with the radiance of love. What did we do to earn this? It is all a free gift to us from God. 





 Brad Hanson is an experienced management consultant, master sales and leadership trainer, and a keynote speaker with 50 years of sales and leadership experience. 


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