We are All Leaders by Keith Lawrence Miller
We are all leaders. Leadership is about influence. Leadership begins with the self and a valuable component of strong leadership is love. We specialize in leading ourselves and make choices to positively influence our present and future. To love anyone else we need to start with loving ourselves and to lead anyone else we need to begin by leading ourselves. This challenge is bigger than first perceived and many people fail to make it past the starting gate because of initial poor choices that lead to social debt. Playing catch up mode in life prevents compounding growth of success from happening, but success is not unreachable if we start pushing the 200 ton bus today. The goal is to have something to show for life when it is all said and done. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy
When Rocky reaches the top step of Needs is an important theory we all feel his energy and identify that outlines the progression of with his determination because it successful development. Briefly, is human nature to want to reach we need basic needs such as food and water, and will strive to satisfy that top step. Leadership starts within us and providing others these needs at any cost. Poverty creates violence and we would with positive influence is a priceless gift that transfers throughout all become animalistic if cast to generations. Once inner leaderthe lower level of the hierarchy. ship is accomplished then greater Safety needs are next followed by leadership challenges exist. the need to be liked by others or The main prerequisite for orsome would call it the need for ganizational leadership is for the love. This is the level most of us attempt to fulfill and fall short aspiring individual to be motivatbecause of choices or faulty inten- ed to be a leader. A lack of motivation to handle the enormous task tions. Strong leadership ability of leadership will certainly end in depends on satisfying this need failure. The second prerequisite and this need is fulfilled initially by loving ourselves. The following for leadership is for the leader to have followers. Without followers two levels are where history takes place and greatness is achieved. there is no leadership. Leadership The need to be respected by others is relational - Leadership is psychological - Leadership leverages and the need to be accomplished power appropriately - Leadership are the fuel of higher level goals. RuralLeaderMagazine.com | JULY/AUGUST 2015 21
