Leaders in Self-Insight and Professional Growth

Note: I decided to leave a couple of paragraphs out of this post on leadership, because it concerns one of the most vile, despicable humans ever to walk the face of the earth, hitler. He might have been a great leader, and even that is up for debate, but what he did while he was a leader was horrific, for lack of a better term. So I'm just going to concentrate on good examples of leadership.

Taking the role of the leader is never easy. Leaders tend to bear more influence than a follower does. While leaders are great influences than common followers, leaders also have balance. We can review a few leaders that had balance and compare them to unbalanced leaders.

One of our best examples of a leader is Martin Luther King, Jr. This fine man set out to reach his aspiration despite of the many obstacles that got in his way of achieving his goal. Mr. King obviously had a fine role model, his father, yet he also had refreshing morals, values, ethnics, ethic, and other clean standards that made him who he became. For this reason, we can use Mr. King as a fine role model to follow when we are striving to use self-insights to cultivate professional growth. Bill Clinton could be considered another role model. Even though he endured trial and error before the public, Clinton continued to withstand his ground and show true leadership. Rather than conform to “norms,” he ventured to show that all humankind despite of their color, culture, background, etc, could take the role as a leader.

Over the centuries, women had to struggle harder than everyone else to make their way into the human category. Sadly, women are still fighting today. Fortunately, however one of the best role models of our time Emily Murphy took the lead and became one of the primary female judges that fought to establish that Canadian Women were human beings “under the law.” Some of the worst leaders then are seen in the district of the law, and in criminal justice. They took the lead and led many people into practicing bias, stereotype, hate, and finally into murder and crime. Check the history of the bible to clarify.

By scrutinizing these role models, one can weigh against and contrast the differences and see that a true leader is not biased, stereotypes, haters, players, unreasonable, doubters, ploys for argument, and so on. Rather a true leader is a pure, original person with high standards, values, and morale. A leader then has confidence, self-esteem, high spirits, drive, and aimlessly seeks to achieve his or her goals. If you use your insight, you will find that professional growth is just around the corners and success is about to happen. Everything is within reach; all it takes is you to get on the way to making it happen. Leaders are humble. Instead of assuming things will happen a true leader will make things happen. A person in charge is unassuming, self-effacing and someone that is subservient. A submissive soul many misconceive, as someone is self-sacrificing or a victim. Contrary to these notions, a leader is submissive. A leader does not have a problem with letting others take the need, when the need is of great relevance and can benefit all.

Leaders create goals, plans, backup plans, and put forth the effort to make it happen. Instead of using insight that others help to develop, use your own insight to find your way through the professional growth world. You will see amazing differences in you. To learn more about professional growth and self-insight, visit the World Wide Web of Cyber confusion to find more answers. Do not forget to review the styles of a leader.
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2007-2008 Timothy Watson