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L
EADERSHIP IS NATURAL and easy for some
and a struggle for others. Leadership has many
dimensions, inspiration, courage, integrity, and
accomplishment among them.
Learning leadership is like learning the alphabet. In
kindergarten, my kids learned the alphabet with the
letter people, for example "Mr. H" introduced them to
the words "house," "hidden," and "how." Each letter person had a different personality. Some letters
were easy to learn, easy to speak, easy to understand, and easy to write. Learning some was very
difficult.
"Mr. S" was a challenge for my son Mike to say. It took many years of physically training his tongue
before he learned to pronounce the letter "S." My son Kevin's difficulty was in writing the letters. His
teachers gave up trying to teach him to write legibly and allowed him to use computers for all written
assignments. Then there was that new letter my son discovered, "elameno," which upon further analysis
was revealed to be four individual letters "L," "M," "N," "O." I still struggle, myself, with how I string
words together and my tendency to speak too fast. Knowing the ABCs of leadership is the required
foundation of great leaders. For some it may just come naturally, and for others it has to be deliberately
learned.
What Leadership Is ... and Isn't
M A N AG E M E N T A N D L E A D E R S H I P
