LEADERSHIP AND CAREER PURSUIT

LEADERSHIP AND CAREER PURSUIT

The word leadership is the ability to achieve a set goal with or without a group of people called organized team. It is also the ability to lead, plan and organize others exceptionally well with or without complaint. 

Leadership skill and knowledge is the pillar of all successful men and women who want to become great in the career of leadership.

To be a leader one needs to be visionary in nature. To ascertain leadership, one needs to think and act. Visualization and imagination are the most credential ingredients in any leadership career pursuit.

Michael Porter said; "Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis’’. 

John C. Maxwell said; "All leaders are followers”.

Leaders are courageous people. A leader makes a decision and pursues it together with his team for accomplishment. Leaders think in order to avoid mistakes. Leaders ask questions in order to find the way. 

Leaders don’t fear failures for they knew that failures are nothing but pillars of success.

A Career on the other hand, is an occupation or profession, especially one requiring special training, followed or seen as one’s lifework (According to Dictionary.com online).

Being clear about your career gives you inner power to face the challenges on the way. A career is an individual’s journey through learning and achieving goals. 

To discover your career, look within yourself. Don’t allow people to choose your career for you, but think before you decide. Your career sometimes is your instincts.

Carlton Fisk said; "It’s not what you achieve, it’s what you overcome. That’s what defines your career".

Edith Wharton said; "There are two ways of spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Your career is what you choose to do, be or follow in life". 

Your career can be wrongly or rightly influenced by friends, the church you attend, environmental inflences, peer groups, and social media attachment or online gambling. You must define your career by yourself. Moreso, you can trust a mentor or caoch for directions.

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Warren Bennis said; ‘’Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality’’. Being aware of your feelings about a particular career in your field of study will help you make the right choice in life. Smart leaders know what they don’t know. Being aware of your knowledge on leadership is the key".

Learning is a constant process throughout your profession in life, and it does not stop when you have become a team leader.

Albert Einstein said; “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education”. It is the learners who will inherit the earth in times of inheritance and internal life. There is no luck without you being prepared".

Developing leadership skill will help you in your career achievement in life. The question is; what would you do if you weren’t afraid of choosing your career? Be bold enough to choose one particular area in your life to develop. 

The first person to lead is your spirit. when you catch your mind you catch your insight and when you catch your insight you can run far with your followers.

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Batholomew Obienyi

A Creative Writer and Motivational Speaker

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