What about What responsibilities are you having at your school apart from your academic work? That other non-academic aspirations do you have which. You feel proud or excited each time you think about them? What type of church will you want to attend which will support those aspirations?
What will your parents do if
You decided to change school or church- or you told them that you are leaving school completely? As a 15 year old, his questions made me to think list to data from where I was into events of at least 2 to 5 years ahead. I thought we were making simple conversations but he was stretching my mental prowess and planting seeds of greatness in me.
Should we be led or should we lead others?
In many of his books, Dr. John C. Maxwell summarises leadership as “influence”. The Oxford online dictionary defines influence as “the capacity to this is the receiver and the product have an effect on the character, development and behaviour of someone or something.” The Merriam- Webster online dictionary describes influence as “the power to cause changes without forcing them to happen.”
In both definitions, the suggested effect or the changes will have to happen on the third party- someone or something- and not so much on the self- our own selves. That is how leadership is generally viewed. It is construed as the leading of other people. We do not think of it in the light of personal leadership- the leading of self, which is the base for all forms of leadership that we have.
In this 21st century age
The potential level and type of influences- and by extension leadership- are generally high, and the sources are never curtailed. We speak of all sorts of review business books, google, academia, the main stream media, social media- twitter, facebook, Twoo, Mxit, instagram, linked-in, etc- political parties, government officials and celebrities.