Don't Beat The Child Because You Can; What Leadership Is and How To Handle Power

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Power is very intoxicating, very tempting, sometimes misleading and other times overwhelming. The taste of power is so sweet that those in it, do not want to let go of it. They enjoy every bit of it because they can shortcut some protocols and bend some rules. When a person gets hold of power, it gives the person some privileges.

Let me give you a very simple example of what power can do.

What do you think will happen if a first class Nigerian king takes alcohol and get filled, while he was still struggling with being tipsy, he saw a man and told his guard to behead him and bring his head in a very nice plate the next day before he wakes up. Either you like it or not, the head will be on the plate before the next day, although the king was talking under the influence of alcohol, the guards will not see it that way.

That is how far possessing power can be.

It is very rear to see a goat claim supremacy in the den of lions, it is not virtually impossible to see slaves imprison kings. This is just the right words to use. In most cases, in order to possess one form of authority or power, leadership is always involved.

A leader is meant to be a steward and a mentor, so in other to put things right, they have to possess a certain amount of authority and power.

Although leaders are given the power to make and take decisions, good leaders are meant to be naturally great listeners. Great leaders are not tyrants, they do not impose their views on others, rather they ask for opinions and help.

No one has a monopoly of good ideas

You are in power does not mean you are the best in your time or amongst your colleagues and subordinates.
Every Leader Is Answerable To An Higher Authority which Is Your Followers

You are the face your people know, and you are the one appointed to rule and lead them, but do not forget that either you are in a democratic or tyrannical community, you can rule over yourself, you cannot possess power over yourself. you need followers to stand firm.

Is leadership a position to terrify followers or serve the followers?